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Cornwall Old Frith Postcard CRANTOCK The Stocks PILLORYVintage Frith's B/W Postcard. Crantock, The Stocks. Pillory. The last man in Crantock Stocks (Circ. 1817) was William Tinney of West Pentire, a Smuggler's son and a vagabond. He robbed, with violence, a widow woman of Cubert parish, and was placed, to abide justice, in Crantock stocks, then standing in the church tower. By negligence or design he was insufficiently secured, and shortly afterwards appeared on the top of the tower. He had cut the rope from the tenor bell and by this he lowered himself to the nave roof. Climbing to the eastern gable of the choir and sliding down it, he dropped to the churchyard grass and in the sympathetic view of certain village worthies, bolted, got off to sea and was never brought to justice or seen in the neighbourhood again. This record was taken down in April 1896 by George Metford Parsons, Vicar, from the testimony of Richard Chegwidden of Crantock, he being then 88 years of age and well remembering as a witness, the events described.Publisher: Frith / C. H. Jenkin Post Office
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