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Show ANCIENT OUCKINQ STOOL Used for Tunlthment of Scolding Women In Olden Times. London At Leominster tn Herefordshire, Here-fordshire, may still be set n a ect men of thn old fBshli.ni d duelling-sliMil duelling-sliMil which was used tn the ollen time for the punishment nf amldlng women The culprit wna .lim-d In Ihn seat and taken to the ihn bank, whence she was Inwen-.l linn the water, wa-ter, apparently with Hie him that a cold douche would cool her fiery tongue Ho late aa Itmi n wiuuaii nameil Jenny I'liws win. i n a i. d oa the ducking stool ihroiiKh ihe mrrote of Leominster, and umiallt ilucketl In the water urar Kenw m r hrldge by order of the insglainii, v nm liar fate would have h. r.ill. n -tsnah li'k eight years sflerwunla ti n that Ihe water waa too low Ihe I .mil lister li-ster stool was formerly hi 1 1 m the liarlsh chinch. Hlmllar sinnla were to ho seen In nearly every i. n nil ihe old accounts often roiiintn. r llciilara of money puld for iln -.-lair of this Instrument of torture m wt paper of 1715 conliilna theae nn rutting rutt-ing parllculnr Last wnkn a .umti who kevpa The (Jueen s I (-ml . houee at Kingston In Hum u ,or- |