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 and Sentiments. S7 a diftant province, Ihe ordered her to be thrown into fetters, and treated very cruelly. Next day, while the miftrefs had gone out on fome bufi- nefs, leaving her fervant at home in fetters, the latter made her efcape fimilarly to the fan6tuary of the church. Another fervant-girl in Win- cheller, taking her mafter's clothes to walli in the river, was fet upon by thieves, who robbed her of them. Her mailer, afcribing the milhap to her own negligence, beat her very feverely, and then put her in fetters, from which flie made her efcape like the others. The interefling fcene No. 37. TVaftilng and SccwguiT. reprefented in our cut, No. 37, taken from the Harleian MS., No. 603, fol. 14, v°., may be regarded as fliowing us the fcourging of a Have. In a pi6lure in Alfric's verfion of Genefis, the man fcourged, inllead ot being tied by the feet, is fixed by the body in a cloven poll, in a rather fingular manner. The aptnefs with which the Saxon ladies made ufe of the fcourge is illullrated by one of William of Malmelbur)''s anecdotes, who tells us that, when king Ethelred was a child, he once lb irritated I his