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Studies in Medieval Literature and Languages
53 The right to possess a tumbril, along with a pillory and gallows, is often
mentioned as a beneficial franchise which could be claimed by the lord of the
manor; a typical example is the following charter granted in 1293 to the lord of the
manor ...
Frederick Whitehead, 1973
2
The Justice of the Peace for Ireland: Containing the ...
Tumbril. The tumlm'I, or "abate/nt,- is an instrument for the punishment of women
that scold, or are unquiet, now called a climbing/fool. By ducking them over head
and ears in water, and especially in muddy o'r stinking water, the word tumbril, ...
3
The Thief-Takers: A Tale of Murder and Revenge
A horse drawn tumbril, an open cart in which Wild sat, followed them. Wild,
dressed in the traditional hanging dressing gown, was hatless and wigless. He
was manacled and sat listless. Another group of javelin men followed Wild's
tumbril.
Sheldon S. Steinberg, 2010
4
The Horse in the Furrow
Then as you tipped more loads the hill began to shape up, and you made a ramp
at one end to get on top of it with your tumbril; and a ramp at the other end to get
down. You'd have two, or even three, horses in your tumbril to take it up the ...
wood-store with him to select the timber for my tumbril. He smoothed his hand
along one plank and another, murmuring, “Now that's a lovely piece of wood—
that came out of Creevely Park in Lord Wenford's time.” And he talked with his
hand ...
You dropped them, and stooped to pull another. The whole process took the
labourer one second. The men showed me by example how to do it. I took up my
position at the side of the tumbril. But my first mangold flew right over the tumbril
and ...
He had made some of the most famous of these with Sir Charles Tumbril, and he
had been staying with Tumbril at the time of his death. But he had belonged to
the district, too, having been born and brought up in a rectory just beyond Thyme
...
8
The Whole Law Relative to the Duty and Office of a Justice ...
492. "THE pillory is the usual punishment os any convicted of Pillory. an infamous
crime ; as perjury, forgery, and the like. Comyn's Dig. tit. " Tumbril." (11). So it may
be inflicted for other enormous offences, as for false rates by a public assessor ...
Thomas Walter Williams, 1794
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The Novelist: a collection of the standard novels
A tumbril, drawn by a strong Norman horse, and completely surrounded by
cavalry, the riders dressed in violet uniforms, with white crosses, entered the
Place by the Rue St. Pierre-aux- Bftuis. Officers forced a passage through the
people by ...
10
The Countess de Charny
A lighted torch was in the tumbril. When they saw the condemned, the multitude
clapped their hands. Since six in the morning the sentence had been known, and
the people had been collecting together ever since. Favras got into the tumbril ...
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Andrew Tickell: SNP can stop flogging a dead horse
Going on and on about the ancien regime after the guilty heads have taken their tumbril ride to the Place de la Révolution may have its psychological ... «Scotsman, 七月 15»
The secret heart of London conservatism…
A prime candidate for nationalisation, if not indeed for a tumbril, he has a wife called Alice and a dog called Percy: neither obedient, both beloved. A couple of ... «Spectator.co.uk, 六月 15»
Les Murray finds brevity in poetry anthology Waiting for the Past
There's the obligatory slip in the shower in Vertigo (“Last time I fell in a shower-room / I bled like a tumbril dandy”) and a battle with incontinence in Diabetica ... «The Australian, 五月 15»
Zizek and Courtly Love
In this predicament he is met by a dwarf driving a tumbril. To his questions, the dwarf—surly like all his race—replies, 'Get in, and I will bring you where you shall ... «First Things, 四月 15»
Never before has Scotland been quite this deluded
She has all the human warmth of a tricoteuse waiting for a tumbril. But that was not so apparent during the debate. There is an irony. If she had given such a ... «Telegraph.co.uk, 四月 15»
Abbott the Coalition killer needs a Press Club miracle
Abbott might as well travel back to Parliament House in a tumbril. Expectations are now so high that anything less than a complete, John Howard 1997-style ... «Crikey, 二月 15»
Weekend Film Recommendation: The Scarlet Pimpernel
The film is set during The Reign of Terror, during which déclassé French mobs cheer as the guillotine ceaselessly beheads tumbril-full after tumbril-full of upper ... «The Reality-Based Community, 一月 15»
Gough Whitlam remembered: gallows humour and monumental rages
... executive in 1966, he exclaimed: “Is the tumbril ready?”. Whitlam was invited by his Senate colleague and then-president of the Queensland Rugby League, ... «The Guardian, 十月 14»
Cannonball Clarke
The ministerial Jaguar parked outside had become a tumbril. His next stop was 10 Downing Street, where he would be deprived of its keys. What, as the end ... «The Economist, 七月 14»
The cost of guilt for Credit Suisse
... for offences that have cost shareholders billions. Justice might be better served had a few senior managers been put in the tumbril as well – or at least paid for ... «Financial Times, 五月 14»
