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the crown. The jury find that the abbots have enjoyed 
the said liberties without interruption from time imme- 
morial. 
P. 691 (mem. 59.)—-John Cogan and his ancestors are found to have 
had . . . . tumbrell inthe manor of Umpsull from 
time immemorial. 
No doubt a number of records might be found throughout the 
country of one or other of these forms of punishment. They 
were to be found in almost every town and village, or perhaps it 
would be more correct to say on every manor. An early record 
is given by Mr, Andrews, viz., at Leicester, in 1467, the local 
authorities directed “scolds to be punished by the Mayor ona 
cuck-stool before their own doors, and then carried to the four 
gates of the town.” Evans, in his Chronological History of 
Bristol, gives under date 1552. A post was set up in the water 
of the Frome, at the mouth of the ditch, under the awful frown 
of the Castle Walls. Across this post was placed a transverse 
beam, turning on a swivel with a chair at one end of it, on which 
when the culprit was properly placed, that end was turned to the 
stream, and let down into it, once, twice, or thrice, according 
to the tender mercy, gallantry, or auricular sensibility of the 
operators. The writer last beheld the venerable remains of this 
silence-imposing post about the year 1785. 
Mr. B. H. Watts (Town Clerk) has very kindly sent me the 
following abstracts from the City (Bath) Chamberlain’s accounts :— 
No. II. 1581. 
Payed for makynge the Cadge and Cokyngstole iijs. iiijd. 
Paide for a bord for the Cokyngstole x@., paied also for a planck for 
the same & for an eye xvijd. 
No. 14. 1583. 
Mendynge the towne Rackes 6/-. 
No. 20. 1586. 
The stocks by the Whott Bathe. 
No. 22. 1587. 
Paid Spanuley for mendinge the stoxe by the Bathe 2d. 

