By F. A. Carrington, Esq. 



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master coming upon the young Vandals." And I did not more 

 particularly inquire as to what occurred afterwards. 



There is also in the same volume, a lithograph of a Cucking 

 Stool at Broadwater, near Worthing, from a drawing by the late 

 Mr. Ourwood, who remembered it as there represented, except that 

 he did not see any one in it. 



There is also in the unused aisle of Leominster Church, a Cucking 

 Stool still remaining in a perfect state. 1 



Cucking Stool in Leominster Church, length 23 ft. 6 in. 



It is neither the usual tumbrel nor the tre-buchet, but partakes 

 of both ; it is moveable and on four wheels. The Chair is at the 

 head of a beam and worked on the see-saw principle : and I was 

 told by Mr. Dickens, the Registrar of Births and Deaths, that he 

 recollected a woman called Jenny Pipes, but whose real name was 

 Crump, who was ducked at Leominster in the year 1809, and who 

 died at a very advanced age. And he recollected Sarah Leeke 

 being placed in this Chair and wheeled round the town, 2 about the 



1 At Devizes the parish tumbrel, when not in use, seems to have been 

 deposited within the lower stage of St. Mary's Church tower, as appears from 

 an Inventory of A.D. 1678, printed in " Wilts Mag." II. 324. The tower of 

 Ramsbury Church still affords a similar shelter to the Fire eiigine. 



2 The culprit when adjudged to be placed in the cucking stool does not appear 

 to have been invariably plunged into the water. The Devizes Corporation 

 books, circa 1585, contain a case in which Edith the wife of William Martin 



