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for immersing a scold in a pond. Women as well as men were 

 severely whipped through the town at the cart tail or tied to 

 a post. Stocks were used for drunkards, the delinquent 

 sitting on the ground, with his hands and feet confined. 

 Specimens are in the town halls of Weymouth and Shaftesbury 

 and Dorchester Museum. The last has also hand stocks. 

 Every village was formerly bound to provide them. In the 

 pillory the offender stood up with his neck and wrists confined. 

 [Western Antiquities, I]. 



HOSPITALS. 



Poor law dates from the reign of Eliz. Almshouses, leper 

 hospitals and maudlin or mad houses had been founded in 

 monkish times, and these were now placed under official 

 supervision. 



LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL TUDOR HOUSES 

 IN DORSET. 



Abbreviations used. 



D. Dorset Field Club Proceedings. (Annual Volumes). 

 G. & S. Tudor Domestic Architecture by Garner & Stratton. 

 H. Hutchins' History of Dorset. 

 S. Somerset and Dorset Notes & Queries. 



ABBOTSBURY. 



The largest barn in the county. Good W. gable and 

 porch with turret stairs. H. II, 722 ; Buck's view of 1733 ; 

 3 engraved views after Prout. 



ASKERSWELL. 

 S. Eggardon. 16th cent, house with good beams. H. II, 175. 



ATHELHAMPTON. 



Great hall & porch, 14th cent, screen and oriel, 16th cent, 

 additions, dovecote. H. II, 587 ; G. & S. plate, LXXIII, ground 

 plan fig. 143; gatehouse fig. 144; oriel fig. 145; D. XX, 122, 

 XXXII, liv; Parker 172, 178; Heath 3; S, VII, i. Gardens 

 Old and New I, 144. 



