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ducking-stool
ˈducking-stool A sort of chair at the end of an oscillating plank, in which disorderly women, scolds, or dishonest tradesmen, were tied and ducked or plunged in water, as a punishment. See cucking-stool. So ducking tumbrel, a ducking-stool provided with wheels.1597 Ipswich Chamberlain's Bk. in Clark... Oxford English Dictionary
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Bradford Beck
A site north west of the parish church was the place where a ducking stool was kept on the beck. On the eventual opening of the Bradford Arm of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, the stool was removed and used on the canal instead. wikipedia.org
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Anne Royall
Although a ducking stool had been constructed nearby, the court ruled that the traditional common law punishment of ducking for a scold was obsolete, and wikipedia.org
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tumbrelle
▪ I. tumbrel1, tumbril (ˈtʌmbrəl, -ɪl) Forms: 4 tombrel, 4–5 tumberell, tumrelle, 5 tomberel, tomerel, tumrel, 5–7 tumbrell, 6 -e, tumrell, tomberell, -brill, 6–8 -brell, 7 -bril, 8 tumbral, 9 dial. tumril, 6– tumbrel, -il; also 6–7 timbrell. [ad. med.L. tumb(e)rellum (Du Cange), -ellus, OF. tumb-, ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Havering-atte-Bower
The village green still has on display its original village stocks, while on the opposite side of the road is a pond known as "Ducking Pond", rumoured However, there are currently plans to construct a replica ducking stool at the site. wikipedia.org
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Grace Sherwood
Sherwood was taken inside Lynnhaven Parish Church, placed on a stool and ordered to ask for forgiveness for her witchery. Annual reenactments of the ducking have taken place since 2006. wikipedia.org
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Mears Ashby
Ashby...who was accused by some of her neighbours of being a witch, in order to prove her innocence, submitted to the ignominy of being dipped (on a ducking-stool wikipedia.org
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Leominster
One of the last ordeals by ducking stool took place in Leominster in 1809, with Jenny Pipes as the final incumbent. The ducking stool is on public display in Leominster Priory; a mechanised depiction of it is featured on the town clock. wikipedia.org
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Poultry, Nottingham
Also it was referred to as Cuckstool Row; presumably the storage place for the town ducking stool. The name of Poultry emerged about 1800. wikipedia.org
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Fence, Lancashire
Cuckstool Lane, which runs south from the War Memorial was the original site of the village ducking stool, where (the story has it) suspected witches wikipedia.org
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Curious Punishments of Bygone Days
Table of contents Foreword The Bilboes The Ducking Stool The Stocks The Pillory Punishments of Authors and Books The Whipping Post The Scarlet Letter Branks wikipedia.org
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Shrew (stock character)
They included the imposition of the ducking stool, pillory, jougs, a shrew's fiddle, or a scold's bridle. wikipedia.org
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Clattern Bridge
Up to the 18th century, the bridge was used as a site for the ducking of scolds with a cucking stool. Traditions Scolds were ducked at the bridge, using a cucking stool. wikipedia.org
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Iron maiden
See also Pear of anguish—another supposed medieval torture device with little actual evidence of use Brazen bull Ducking stool References Further wikipedia.org
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Ordnance Island
The original islands of Ducking Stool, Frazer's and Gallows were used in the early days of the colony for executions. wikipedia.org
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