THE DUCKING STOOL

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 193, 22 March 1878, Page 7

THE DUCKING STOOL

«»,-, ~* In the crypt of Warwick Church, the mighty ribbed arches of which spring from one enormous pier, there is an article which has long gone out of use —■ whether advantageously or not I shall not venture to say —a ducking stool, made for the public discipline of scolding Avomen. This is one of .the only tAvo, I believe, that remain in England. It consists of a strong oaken frame on low wheels, from which a seat rises upon an inclined beam that works upon a pivot or axle. The scold Avas lashed into the seat, and then the "institiution " was draAvn to the river side at a convenient deep place, ancl rolled in until the patient sat just above the water. \Tben the land end ofthe beam was tipped up, and consequently the the other end with its landing went down under the Avater, where it Avas allowed to remain not too long,' and was then raised for breathing "time. The process Avas repeated as often as it was thought beneficial to the lady under treatment, or necessary for the peace of her family and neighbourhood, Whether husbands ever interceded for wives thus disciplined, as wives do now sometimes for husbands Avho are unreasonably interferred with in the gentle sport of blacking their eyes or kicking their ribs, is not recorded. —The Galaxy,

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