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... DUCKING - STOOL • 4. MONUMENT OF THE LAST OF THE PALEOLOGI 5. CONTRIBUTION TO THE NATURAL HISTORY OF IRELAND Page 6. ANCIENT PETER SCHLIMMELS ; OR , MEN DEPRIVED OF THEIR 1 64 77 81 82 SHADOWS 7. DILEMMAS HENRY VIII . • · 8. GASCONADES ...
... DUCKING - STOOL • 4. MONUMENT OF THE LAST OF THE PALEOLOGI 5. CONTRIBUTION TO THE NATURAL HISTORY OF IRELAND Page 6. ANCIENT PETER SCHLIMMELS ; OR , MEN DEPRIVED OF THEIR 1 64 77 81 82 SHADOWS 7. DILEMMAS HENRY VIII . • · 8. GASCONADES ...
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... five columns , and may comprehend between se- venty and eighty names . This work , of course , was for story - lovers of the Roman persuasion ; but Protestantism also had its books of table- UPON TABLE - TALK . 3 THE DUCKING-STOOL Page.
... five columns , and may comprehend between se- venty and eighty names . This work , of course , was for story - lovers of the Roman persuasion ; but Protestantism also had its books of table- UPON TABLE - TALK . 3 THE DUCKING-STOOL Page.
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... DUCKING - STOOL . BOSWELL relates that Dr. Johnson , in a conversation with Mrs. Knowles , the celebrated Quaker lady , said , " Madam , we have different modes of restraining evil- stocks for the men , a DUCKING - STOOL for WOMEN , and ...
... DUCKING - STOOL . BOSWELL relates that Dr. Johnson , in a conversation with Mrs. Knowles , the celebrated Quaker lady , said , " Madam , we have different modes of restraining evil- stocks for the men , a DUCKING - STOOL for WOMEN , and ...
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Charles MacFarlane. Blount says this chair was in use in the Saxon times . In the Saxon dictionaries its name is Scealking rtol . In Queen Elizabeth's time the ducking - stool was a universal punishment for scolds . Cole , the antiquary ...
Charles MacFarlane. Blount says this chair was in use in the Saxon times . In the Saxon dictionaries its name is Scealking rtol . In Queen Elizabeth's time the ducking - stool was a universal punishment for scolds . Cole , the antiquary ...
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... stool . He says , " This way of punishing scolding women is pleasant enough . They fasten an arm - chair to the end of two beams twelve or fifteen foot long , and parallel to each other ; so that these two pieces of ... DUCKING - STOOL .. 79.
... stool . He says , " This way of punishing scolding women is pleasant enough . They fasten an arm - chair to the end of two beams twelve or fifteen foot long , and parallel to each other ; so that these two pieces of ... DUCKING - STOOL .. 79.
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