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(Also paid one labourer for cleaning the com mon sewer adjoining the Cuck-stool pit, for a passage for the water there, for one day, $d.) "1556. — iiijd de Johi Robynson cordin pe le Cuckstoole pitt." (4<Z received of John Robinson, cordwainer, for the Cuckstool pit.) The punishment of the cuckstool in Bev erly was inflicted on brewers and bakers, as well as others. At Newbury, the following occurs in the Quarter Sessions book : — "Sessions 19. ) July 24, Car. 2. BurSus de NewburX" It. We present the Widdow Adames for a common scould. "Ordered to appear at the next Sessions, be ing served with processe for that purpose. "27 January, ) Margaret Adames, Widow, hath 24 Car. 2. ) appeared and pleaded not guilty to her indictment for a common scoold and put herself on the Jury, who being sworn, say she is guilty of the indictment against her. "Cur. That she is to be ducked in the Cucking Stool according as the Mayor shall thinke the time fitting."

At Lyme Regis was atumbrell, and in the Court of Hustings book, 1 58 1, it is ordered: — "The jury present that the tumbrell be repaired, and maintained from time to time according to the Stat ute "; and two years later the mayor was ordered to provide one before All Saints' Day under a penalty of 1 ay. The cucking stool was kept in the church porch. The following are some of the corporation entries respecting it s. d. 1 63 1. — The bringing the cucking stool out of the church .... o 6 1633. — For amending the cucking stool o 6 1653. — Paid for a piece of timber for a cuck ing stool and six boards. 16 2 1657. — For timber to make a cucking stool. 12 o 1658. — For making a cucking stool, George Baker ..... 5 8 1685. — 30th April. Ilem: We present the corporation for not repairing the cucking stool 6 8

Therefore it is ordered that it be repaired within one month, subpcena. 1724. — The corporation was presented for not keep ing up a ducking stool as it was for merly allowed by the informat1on of several persons. It must not be understood that the Tumbrell was always used with the ducking stool — far from it. Fraudulent bakers, brewers of bad ale, vendors of putrid meat, sellers of "stinking rabbits, eels, capons, &c.," and other fraudulent people, as well as falseswearers, were carted round the town on the tumbrell, and so to the pillory, which I shall speak of in another article. The Tumbrell was the wheel-carriage on which cul prits were taken to be ducked, or to be locked in the pillory. A ducking stool of a different kind was until lately in existence at Broadwater, near Worthing, and is carefully engraved in the Wiltshire " Archaeological Magazine." It is of the trebucket form. A post is driven into the bed of the pond, and on the top is bedded a piece of wood, which turns on a swivel and supports a long beam, on one

end of which is the " stool," and at the other end a chain, by which it is affixed to a post. When wanted for use, the beam is turned round to the bank, the woman placed in the " stool " and tied in, and the beam then turned back over the water, and the ducking given on the see-saw principle. At Rugby was one of this description, which has been destroyed almost within memory. In reference to this example, I am favored by my friend Mr. Pretty, F. S. A., with the following note : —