Ducking stools or cucking stools were chairs formerly used for punishment of disorderly women, scolds, and dishonest tradesmen in medieval Europe and elsewhere...

castigatory, or cucking stool, which in the Saxon language signifies the scolding stool; though now it is frequently corrupted into ducking stool, because the residue...

the name "ducking stool" appear from 1597, and a statement in 1769 relates that "ducking-stool" is a corruption of the term "cucking-stool". Whereas a...

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of the last ordeals by ducking stool took place in Leominster in 1809, with Jenny Pipes as the final incumbent. The ducking stool is on public display in...

Ducking stool at the medieval Criminal Museum...

scold". Although a ducking stool had been constructed nearby, the court ruled that the traditional common law punishment of ducking for a scold was obsolete...

the Calgary Police Association on July 5, 2014. Cucking stool, sometimes known as a "ducking stool" is a medieval form of punishment involving submerging...

to humiliate the guilty party. They included the imposition of the ducking stool, pillory, jougs, a shrew's fiddle, or a scold's bridle. Scold or shrew...

Anti-suffrage postcard- For a Suffragette the Ducking-Stool.jpg...

a variety of forms, including whipping, stocks, the pillory and the ducking stool. In the 17th and 18th centuries, whipping posts were considered indispensable...

Gallows Corner, a road junction a few miles from Brentwood, in Romford. A ducking stool was mentioned in 1584. As the Roman road grew busier, Brentwood became...

runs south from the War Memorial was the original site of the village ducking stool, where (the story has it) suspected witches were immersed in a pond...

cost £1,500 to construct. Moss (1908) tells us that in 1760 Retford's ducking stool was used for the last time. He says it was situated at the end of a...

gaol in Staines is from 1274 and the erection of a new pillory and ducking stool is described in 1335. There were stocks in the Market Square through...

further criticised the "lie detector" as "the modern equivalent of the ducking stool, or at least about as scientifically accurate". In Vice, Joel Golby...

uncovered. However, there are currently plans to construct a replica ducking stool at the site. The village sits on one of the highest points in London...

pillory as a whipping post.[citation needed] Foreword The Bilboes The Ducking Stool The Stocks The Pillory Punishments of Authors and Books The Whipping...

1964), flogging (1961), the stocks (1872), the pillory (1830), the ducking stool (1817), joining the military, or penal transportation to America or...

referred to as Cuckstool Row; presumably the storage place for the town ducking stool. The name of Poultry emerged about 1800. The Hen Cross stood just within...

Northamptonshire witch trials, amongst the first in England to use trial by ducking stool, are believed to have been situated at the crossroads in Abington Park...

lesser crimes were sent to prison or the stocks. Uses of the pillory, ducking stool, the brank, the drunkards cloak, burning, the breaking wheel, and other...

for the book which consists of a highly coloured fully operational ducking stool, shown as a precursor work to Monoculture. From June 2012 – February...

737989°W / 52.227036; -2.737989 2006 (approx clock various Q59358151 The 'ducking stool' is a reference to Jenny Pipes Laundry Butcher Row, Leominster 52°13′38″N...

guns, proceeded to sea, firing a salute of 21 guns as she passed the Ducking Stool, The land Saluting Battery near that point returned this salute with...

village accused one another of witchcraft and were subjected to the ducking stool, which one passed and the other failed. A number of women were accused...

Glenn Magna accused one another of witchcraft and were subjected to the ducking stool, which one passed and the other failed. Other accusations followed....

small islands which were once situated there. The original islands of Ducking Stool, Frazer's and Gallows were used in the early days of the colony for...

Pipes becomes the last woman in England to suffer punishment in the ducking stool for being a common scold, in Leominster. William Combe begins publication...