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In the First Book of Discipline, says the Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D.,
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His sentence was as follows:
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That in Edinburgh, as the capital, in Dundee, as his native town, and in Jedburgh, the scene of his ministrations, he should stand in sackcloth at the church door, also on the repentance stool, and for two Sundays in each place.
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upon the stool of repentance. Particulars of many cases similar to the foregoing may be found in the pages of
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Social Life in Scotland, by the Rev. Charles Rogers, in
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Old Church Life in Scotland,
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A note in the issue for 22nd February, 1884, says that
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Life of Johnson will remember how the Doctor, in reply to a remark made by a celebrated Quaker lady, Mrs. Knowles, observed:
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Madam, we have different modes of restraining evil--stocks for men, a ducking-stool for women, and a pound for beasts.
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Domesday Book, that as far back as the days of Edward the Confessor, any man or woman detected giving false measure in the city of Chester was fined four shillings; and for brewing bad ale, was placed in the _cathedra stercoris_. It was a degrading mode of chastisement, the culprits being seated in the chair at their own doors or in some public place. At Leicester, in 1467, the local authorities directed
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According to Borlase's
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Natural History of Cornwall, in that part of the country the cucking-stool was used
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Ale-wives in Scotland in bygone times who sold bad ale were placed in the cucking-stool. In the year 1555, we learn from Thomas Wright that