The Statute of Cambridge 1388 (12 Rich. 2, ch. 7) was a piece of legislation passed in 1388 in England which placed restrictions on the movements of labourers and beggars. Each Hundred became responsible for relieving its own impotent poor. Servants wishing to move out of the district needed a letter from the "good man of the Hundred", or risked being put in the stocks

Stocks

Stocks are devices used in the medieval and colonial American times as a form of physical punishment involving public humiliation. The stocks partially immobilized its victims and they were often exposed in a public place such as the site of a market to the scorn of those who passed by...

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