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| Picture No | 11077739 |
| Date | circa 1647 |
| Description | Woman placed in the stocks for baking some plum puddings |
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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' !
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| Source | Illustration by Frank Dadd (1851-1929) in The Graphic - Christmas Number - 25th November 1912 p3 |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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