new shambles with a vault under them be made under the said Gainsborough." The new building was known as the Exchange, and was in existence until 1850.
There was a room under the Toll-booth, in the Market Place, which was sometimes used as a house of detention; and the wooden Cage, a lock-up for petty malefactors, stood at the Berehill Cross, outside the East Gate.
The town possessed at least eight pairs of Stocks, which stood outside each of the four Gates, at the High Cross, outside the Mayor's Hall, under the Pillory, and beneath the great Elmtree, in the Marketplace. Besides the Marketplace Pillory there may have been one placed on the top of the Berehill Cage, as in the case of the Cornhill Pillory in London. A Pillory is recorded to have been made at Leicester in 1300, but there had been older ones.
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