28 Facts relating to Marlborough. 



year 1817, but she could not be ducked as the water was too low. 

 Mr. Dickens also stated that the persons ducked were immersed 

 at three different parts of the town, twice in the river Lug, and 

 once in a pond ; and that when the machine was wheeled through 

 the town, the woman in the Chair at the end of the beam was 

 nearly as high as the first floor window of the houses. 



I have been told that the tomb of the person called Jenny Pipes, 

 is near the west door of Leominster Church. And I am also 

 informed by Mr. Bernhard Smith, that the Chair of a Cucking 

 Stool is in the Museum at Scarborough ; by Mr. Hawks that a 

 Cucking Stool still remains in St. Mary's Church, at Warwick ; 

 and by Mr. Pollard, that another still exists in the Town-Hall of 

 Ipswich. 



That there was a convicted Scold at Newbury in the polite reign 

 of Charles II. is evidenced by the following entries in the Quarter 

 Sessions Book of that place of which I am favored with copies by 

 Mr. Vines, clerk of the peace. 



"Sessions 19 j Burgus de Newbm-v. 



July 24 Car. 2. j ■= 



It. We present the AViddow Adames for a Common Scould. 



Ordered to appear at the next Sessions, being served with processe lor that 

 purpose. 



27 January ) Margarett Adames, "Widow, hath appeared and pleaded 

 24 Car. 2. j not guilty to her indictment for a common Scold and put 

 herself on the Jury, who being swome, say she is guilty of the indictment 

 against her. 



Cur. That she is to be ducked in the Cucking Stool according as the Mayor 

 shall think the time fitting." 



In Shropshire, scolds existed till a later period, as I was told by 

 the late Mr. George Morris the eminent genealogist and antiquary 

 of that county, that his father saw a woman ducked at "Whitchurch 

 in the year 1777, and that he himself saw a woman branked at 

 Shrewsbury in 1807. 



In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, there was a Cucking Stool at 



having uttered unseemly language against Elizabeth the wife of John Webb, 

 the latter complains to the Mayor, who on the offence being proved by three 

 additional witnesses, orders that the culprit shall ride in the cucking stool from 

 the Guildhall to the dwelling house of her husband, the said William Martin, 

 and the cucking stool shall stand at her door. 



