Woman placed in the stocks for baking some plum puddings

A woman pays the penalty for celebrating Christmas too vigorously (by baking plum puddings!) against the decree of Parliament in Puritan-controlled Oxford during the Civil War-era of the late 1840s in England, and is placed in the stocks for her crime

1640s Absurd Allowed Apr16 Baked Baking Banned Bans Breaker Crier Dadd Harsh Herald Illicit Judged Judgement Laws Leads Lifted Mainwaring Parliamentarian Penalty Plum Pudding Punish Punished Puritan Ridiculed Rule Stocks

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