10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUCKING STOOL»
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Cucking Stool and Scolding Cart, Leicester. From the numerous references to the
Cucking Stool in the ancient records of this borough, we have abundant proof
that here, as well as in many other towns, the ladies were in former times, very ...
Willis's Current notes, 1855
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The Social History of the People of the Southern Counties of ...
CUCKING-STOOL. — PUNISHMENT OF SCOLDS. 155 offenders. Sundry entries
are here given to prove that this branch of borough discipline was not neglected.
Cucking is a corruption of coquine, so that cucking-stool is that for troublesome, ...
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Book catalogue: Willis's miscellanaeous
Cucking Stool and Scolding Cart, Leicester. From the numerous references to the
Cucking Stool in the ancient records of this borough, we have abundant proof
that here, as well as in many other towns, the ladies were in former times, very ...
4
Gender and Petty Crime in Late Medieval England: The Local ...
Only a few days earlier, another woman had been sentenced to have 'the mortar
hanging at her husband's door'.154 Sandwich also had a cucking-stool, but it
does not seem to have been used to punish scolds. In 1470, a servant, Agnes ...
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The Archaeological Journal
Tumbrel, A : -—' The tumbrel or trebucket is an instrument for the punishment of
women that scold, or are unquiet, now called a cucking stool, and a man may
have a pillory, tumbrel, furcas, &c., by grant or prescription, and every Lord of a
Leet ...
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Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, ...
From the numerous references to the Cucking Stool in the ancient records of this
borough, we have abundant proof that here, as well as in many other towns, the
ladies were in former times, very frequently subject to visitations of ill-tongue, and
...
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The reliquary; A depository for precious relics-legendary, ...
That she is to be ducked in the Cucking Stool according as the Mayor shall thinke
the time fitting." At LYME REGIB was a tumbrel, and in the Court of Hustings book
, 1581, it is ordered — “ The Jury present that the tumbrell be repaired, and ...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
The wooden mortar and the cucking- stool were preserved at Sandwich in the
middle of the last century, and are both engraved in one of Boys s plates. The
cucking-stool is a very singular specimen ; and is looked upon as a great
curiosity ...
Reuben Percy, John Timbs, 1846
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Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of ...
The Cucking-stool was an engine invented for the punishment of scolds and
unquiet women, by ducking them in the water, after having placed them in a stool
or chair fixed at the end of a long pole, by which they were immerged in some ...
John Brand, sir Henry Ellis, 1842
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Observations on Popular Antiquities Chiefly Illustrating the ...
CUCKING-STOOL ; called also a tumbrel*, TRiBUCHb, and trebuchet0; also a
THE WE d. THE Cucking Stool was an Engine invented for the punishment of
Scolds and unquiet Women, by ducking them in the Water, after having placed
them ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CUCKING STOOL»
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Initiatives in place to prevent Malmesbury floods
A shallow depression has been dug between Cucking Stool Mead and St Aldhelm's Mead with the aim of taking floodwater away from High ... «The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald, Dec 14»
Leominster, Herefordshire
The ducking or cucking stool was an instrument of punishment, used in the Middle Ages and later, generally for to those who spread malicious ... «NOTTINGHAM CITY COUNCIL LOLS, Nov 14»
3 disgusting ways independent, talkative women were tortured and …
And thus unto the cucking stool. This famous scold did go. [The Cucking of a Scold]. While cucking stools have been banned for centuries, ... «The Week Magazine, Oct 14»
The London Graveyard That's Become a Memorial for the City's …
The penalty for the latter included fines, prison time, a dip on the “cucking stool” into raw sewage, and banishment from Southwark. Although ... «Smithsonian, Oct 14»
Jonah Miller
The statutory punishment for scolds, the cucking stool, a kind of see-saw with a chair on one end in which a woman would be held up for public ... «London Review of Books, Aug 14»
Denis Kilcommons: Folly Hall Lights are a-Changing
A cucking stool, which dipped the occupants in water, was used to punish disorderly women and dishonest tradesmen. The building that ... «Huddersfield Examiner, Jan 14»
Heat is on to solve Malmesbury's flooding problems
“The town council has asked Wiltshire Council to undertake remedial work at Cucking Stool Mead and to clear rubble out of the town bridge; ... «This Is Wiltshire, Dec 13»
The Pervert Storm
On a cucking stool, on the rack. Sex is the great metaphor, sexual transgression the engine of tragedy. Savile has unlocked a national cautionary parable. «Vanity Fair, Jan 13»
Wally the Beer Man gets a celebrity 'beertender' gig
“Spot” on “The Cucking Stool” blog rips into Strib editorial pager writer Doug Tice (at least he thinks it's Tice) for Monday's editorial … the ... «MinnPost.com, Apr 11»
I Can't Believe This. I Really Can't Believe This.
As Spotty of The Cucking Stool tartly replied in his comments section: “So, Kate, if Tripp and his buddies drew penises on the wall, rather than a ... «Firedoglake, Sep 10»
