512 A TOUR HOUND NORTH WALES, 



and extending to the centre of a pond, on 

 which end the ftool or feat ufed to be 

 placed.* 



* The cucking-flool is thus defcribed by Jacob, 

 " Cucking-ftool (tumbrellum) is an engine invented 

 " for the punifhment of fcolds and unquiet women, 

 " by ducking them in water, called, in antient 

 " time, a tumbrel, and fometimes a trebucket. 

 " In Domefday it is called cathedra flercoris ; and 

 " the Saxons defcribed it to be cathedra in qua rix- 

 ff ofts mulieres fedentes, aquis demergebantur. It was 

 " antiently a punifhment infiifted upon brewers 

 ft and bakers, tranfgrefling the laws, who were 

 " thereupon, in fuch a ftool, immerged over head 

 < and ears in Jlercore^ linking water. Some think 

 " it a corruption from ducking-flool, and others 

 " from choaking-ftool, quia hoc tnodo demerfa aquis 

 " fere juffoc ant ur" See Jacob's Law Dictionary. 



END OF THE FIRST VOLUME, 



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