Old English Punishments.
Our fore-fathers. in, Ejigland were. ifcss toip^Qpi' °f petty- °ff ences tNm tfteir descendants,, ajadi.in the produces, adopted, modpa. of; punishment $pw Qttjy traditionally- r.emonibered. j A^mou&t&em.were the "mucking stool" -^maiuly *> village iisptitutiotb—the*t brauk,"" a»d the "-tumbril." The *i cuckiftg: stool," was. used for curing, avoiding; weiapn, who were through its $geney dipped in a pond, or in. the sea 3jß most, (iutfcveuieut.. it was- merely ljftvrog a chafr at one end jjito which* tbe offender was. seated, ajid then, dipped into, th> water oy Rising tftp other end,. For one of tfiese moral teachers for tihe use of the good people of Liecesterc the sum of tjvo pounjte was p«i»i. i*b 1766. At ]|[arlborpugh, in 162_5» AWn was paid. 4pl f or, bpljjjrina: at the-'*<Wiking stool."' Ijp. 163P, two shillings wi& paid " the, sorters. a£ GraveseoA for duckiug, Campion.'" Scolding seems . tp.haye bean a cngfcg evil in those 4ays> foi;; the "branfc" was another qpntriyAftace for punishing shrews. 3&e . U^cuciing stool" npt only endangered; tike health.of the pwty, but also gay«. thjp tonguft.liberty, *' twixt every dip.'/' n^he "branh" sl[nA up the offender,, l^eing put over the- head and fastened', with aVdlock., The " tumbriU* was> % t lp,w, rplling.carti or carriage (in law. which was uged as %,pun^shment of disgrace and infamy* Millers when, they stole corn, were chastised] by, the tumbril, Personf were sometipj^s fastened iVfiiJh, an iron 4 cj^ain. to a^ tumbril &p& connteyed, l(are-headed, . with din 4 and crjf, through^,th# principal streets-of towns. Tjhe use of tke " cucking; stool" r was Hot abolished^in.prisoiW.ufttU before, .18^;.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 90, 5 February 1887, Page 6 (Supplement)
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313Old English Punishments. Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 90, 5 February 1887, Page 6 (Supplement)
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