Show Flogging Not Ancient Custom Flogging In public and otherwise Is not of medieval origin In the middle ages ridicule and nut physical suffer ng was the means employed for the correction of wiongdolntf Hence the pillory the stocks and the thewe a chair suspended high over tho heads of tho crowd In which women generally gener-ally scolds woro brought to a sweet reasonableness but tho whipping rout belongs to the Tudor age Tho 1 KHz out than servant question was met by flogging girls for idleness on Sunday morning But it was In tho Hanoverian Hano-verian period that Hogging was carried car-ried to excess As late as 1801 six women wore publicly Hogged In Gloucester England because they had been found begging |