70 Ancient Wiltshire Customs. 
Lord Chief Baron Comyns died in the year 1740, and he founds 
his last observation on a dictum of Lord Chief Justice Scrope, 
reported in Keilway’s Reports, page 148, where among the cases 
tried on an Iter in the time of Edward the third, there is a case of 
quo warranto, in which the defendant claimed to have the punish- 
ment of offenders who broke the assize of bread and beer, and it 
was found by the jury “que n’avoit pillor ne tumbrell,” and Lord 
Chief Justice Scrope “agard que il enjoyara son franchise, mes il 
serra en le grace le Roi, pur ceo que il n’avoit pillorie & tumbrell.” 
The jury found that the defendant had neither pillory nor tum- 
brel, and the Lord Chief Justice Scrope “awards that he shall enjoy 
his franchise, but he shall be in the grace of the king,” (i. e. at the 
king’s mercy) “for this, that he had not pillory and tumbrel.” 
There is no precise date to the Iter, so that whether this is Hen- 
ricus le Scrope, or Galfridus le Scrope, is uncertain, as both were 
Lord Chief Justices of the Court of King’s Bench, in different parts 
of the reign of Edward the third. 
It is worthy of remark, that Lord Chief Baron Comyns speaks of 
the tumbrel, ov trebuchet. Now although both were Cucking 
Stools, they were different instruments; the tumbrel being move- 
able, and upon wheels, the trebuchet being permanently fixed on a 
short post at the side of the village pond; and in proof of this, it 
may be observed, that the ammunition waggon used in the French 
war, which ended in 1814, was called a tumbrel. The trebuchet 
being a name for an implement of war, which worked on an axis, 
for the throwing of stones into besieged towns, and is described by 
Captain Grose in his Military Antiquities, vol. 1. p. 882, and by 
Sir Samuel Meyrick, in his work on Armour, vol. 8. Glossary Tit. 
Trebuchet. 
The Rev. Daniel Lysons, F.A.S., in his Environs of London, 
vol. 1, p. 233, printed in 1792, gives the following extract from 
the Chamberlain’s accounts of Kingston-upon-Thames :— 
“¢1572,—The making of the Cucking Stool .......... 0 8 0 
7 Tron work for the same .........0.....05. 0-80 
an Mimbar for the;same:~ 25, ar. Jeiya.s = vey fo 0 7.6 
- Three brasses for the same, and three wheels 0 4 10” 
To this the Rev. D. Lysons appends this note :—‘‘ The Cucking 
