PAGE DAGGER OF RAOUL DE COURCY DANCING NATIVES OF NEW SOUTH WALES DARNEY (JENNY), A HARMLESS ECCENTRIC OF THE YEAR 1790 263 225 187 101 DYAK WITH HEADS, SKULL HOUSE, AND HOUSE OF SEA DYAKS 276, 277 EAST INDIA HOUSE, THE FIRST EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE EGYPTIAN TOYS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM EMBROIDERED GLOVE, PRESENTED BY MARY QUEEN OF SCOTLAND TO EXTRAORDINARY CATARACT EXTRAORDINARY SITUATION FOR A TREE 206 109 130 263 224 313 FASHIONABLE DISFIGUREMENT OF THE TIME OF CHARLES I. FRENCH ASSIGNATS, FACSIMILE OF THE FORMS IN WHICH THEY WERE FULLERTON'S (COLONEL) DEVICE FOR PASSING A MOUNTAIN TORRENT 194 INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE:-THE EXECUTIONER'S AXE; THE BLOCK ON 60, 90 JEWEL PRESENTED BY MARY OF SCOTS, TO EARL HUNTLEY OLD STAIRCASE IN THE RESIDENCE OF NORMAN CAPS 44 NORTH-AMERICAN INDIAN WAR DESPATCH 45 ORNAMENTS OF FEMALE DRESS IN THE TIMES OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS PAPYRUS ROLL, FROM A SPECIMEN IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM -, SYRIAN, WITH AND WITHOUT FLOWERS PENN'S (WILLIAM) SILVER TEA SERVICE. PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL, FAC-SIMILE OF THE HEADING OF THE LAST 79 82 83. 329 202 63 PLOUGHING, ANCIENT MODE OF 66 PRINCE RUPERT, HEAD QUARTERS OF, DURING THE SIEGE OF LIVER- PULPIT OF JOHN KNOX AT ST. ANDREW'S PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT QUEEN ELIZABETH'S STATE COACH RALEIGH'S (SIR WALTER) ANCIENT RESIDENCE AT BLACKWALL REVOLVER, A, OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY SCRIPTURAL ANTIQUITIES:-DRUM, OR TIMBREL; DRUM IN USE IN THE EAST; HARP; LUTES; INSCRIBED STONE; SANDALS; DISTAFF; ROMAN WATCH PRESENTED BY MARY OF SCOTLAND TO MARY SEATON TEN THOUSAND WONDERFUL THINGS. PUNISHMENTS IN PROVINCIAL TOWNS IN THE OLDEN TIME. The instruments most in vogue with our ancestors were three-the cucking-stool, the brank, and the tumbrel. The Cucking-stool was used by the pond in many village greens about one hundred years ago or little more, and then deemed the best corrective of a scolding woman. By the sea, the quay offered a convenient spot. The barbican, at Plymouth, was a locality, doubtless terrible to offenders, however care less of committing their wordy nuisance of scolding. Two pounds were paid for a cucking-stool at Leicester in 1768. Since that it has been placed at the door of a notorious scold as a warning. Upon admission to the House of Correction at Liverpool, a woman had to undergo the severity of the cucking-stool till a little before the year 1803, when Mr. James Neild wrote to Dr. Lettsom. The pump in the men's court was the whipping-post for females, which discipline continued, though not weekly. Kingston-upon-Thames. 1572. The making of the cucking-stool. Iron work for the same Timber for the same s. d. At Marlborough, in 1625, a man had 4d. for his help at the cucking of Joan Neal. Three brasses for the same, and three wheels Gravesend. 1636. The porters for ducking of Goodwife Campion Two porters for laying up the ducking-stool THE BRANK. 2 0 0 8 The tumbrel was a low-rolling cart or carriage (in law Latin, tumberella) which was used as a punishment of disgrace and infamy. Millers, when they stole corn, were chastised by the tumbrel. Persons were sometimes fastened with an iron chain to a tumbrel, and conveyed bareheaded with din and cry through the principal streets of towns. Court of Hustings Book, 1581. (Lyme.) "The jury present that the tumbrell be repaired and maintained from time to time, according to the statute." In 1583, Mr. Mayor was to provide a tumbrel before All Saints Day, under a penalty of 108. |
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