From the history of the pillory in Úpica

The town of Úpice belonged to the Náchod estate already at the beginning of the 16th century, and so the ordeal and capital law was administered precisely in Náchod, as evidenced by the entries in the ordeal books of the city of Náchoda, many of which were published in books on the history of this city, or in Schreibr's chronicle. The first report about the Úpicé pillory – a place of worldly shame – dates from 1670. In the 1st volume of "Memory of the City of Úpice", which...