DARNEY (JENNY), A HARMLESS ECCENTRIC OF THE YEAR 1790 DRINKING-GLASS, ANCIENT 153 DROPPING WELL OF KNARESBOROUGH DUCK-BILLED PLATYPUS, OR ORNITHORYNCHUS PARADOXUS EAST INDIA HOUSE, THE FIRST EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE EGYPTIAN TOYS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM EMBROIDERED GLOVE, PRESENTED BY MARY QUEEN OF SCOTLAND TO 130 263 224 FETE OF THE FEDERATION OF THE NATIONAL GUARDS OF FRANCE, 1790 289 FRENCH ASSIGNATS, FACSIMILE OF THE FORMS IN WHICH THEY WERE FULLERTON'S (COLONEL) DEVICE FOR PASSING A MOUNTAIN TORRENT INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE:-THE EXECUTIONER'S AXE; THE BLOCK ON 60, 90 PAGE JEWEL PRESENTED BY MARY OF SCOTS, TO EARL HUNTLEY JOY (WILLIAM) THE ENGLISH SAMPSON MONSOONS. 180 MONSTROUS HEAD-DRESS OF 1782 MORAYSHIRE FLOODS MOSQUE OF OMAR ST. SOPHIA MUMMERS, OR ANCIENT WAITS. 242 126 317 104 14 ORNAMENTS OF FEMALE DRESS IN THE TIMES OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS 79 PAPYRUS ROLL, FROM A SPECIMEN IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM PENN'S (WILLIAM) SILVER TEA SERVICE PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL, FAC-SIMILE OF THE HEADING OF THE LAST PLOUGHING, ANCIENT MODE OF PONT DU GARD, THE GREAT AQUEDUCT OF 202 63 66 312 PRINCE RUPERT, HEAD QUARTERS OF, DURING THE SIEGE OF LIVER- 292 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 RING, FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF CHARLES I. SAINT GEORGE, TOMB OF SAINT GEORGE'S HALL, GIBRALTAR. SCRIPTURAL ANTIQUITIES:-DRUM, OR TIMBREL; DRUM IN USE IN THE SILVER LOCKET IN MEMORY OF THE EXECUTION OF CHARLES I. WATCH PRESENTED BY MARY OF SCOTLAND TO MARY SEATON 281 7 217 22 320 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. Timber for the same Iron work for the same Three brasses for the same, and three wheels s. d. 8 0 3 0 7 6 4 10 £1 3 4 At Marlborough, in 1625, a man had 4d. for his help at the cucking of Joan Neal. 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 10s. |