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From the 'Warwick Advertiser, Sat., April 5th, 1862.
At Special Petty Sessions on March 31st Henry Craner of Studley, needlemaker, charged with drunkenness at Sambourne. He was fined 5/- and 14/6 costs & in default of payment within 7 days was ordered to be imprisoned in the stocks for 6 hours.
Henry Craner made needles in Watts Road, Studley, from the 1860's to 1890's. Perhaps he had become drunk at the 'Green Dragon' or more likely 'The Falcon' then still trading on Node Hill (on the Sambourne side). One wonders whether the stocks were to be used in Sambourne or Studley?
R.A.C.
I find this press report some what surprising: An Act of 1405 ordered that stocks should be provided in every village. Most reference books say that their use had ceased by the 1830's and this was 1862.
Ed.
Alcester & District Local History Society