1. Flooring Tiles from Fountains Abbey. These are given as showing the
manner of tesselating by tiles of various colours and forms fitting
together to produce figures.
2. Small Iron Money Box. This is made of beat iron: the original is about
three times the size of the etching. It has a slit in the top, similar to
the “penny pigs” formerly common among children.
3. The Branks or Scold’s Cap. This instrument of punishment for scolds
has been in very general use. It was found by Pennant at Langholm in
Scotland, is still to be found at Macclesfield, and is recorded to have
been used at Lichfield, Stafford, and at Doddington, Lincolnshire. The
one figured is still in the police court at Newcastle. The nose projected
through the opening in the front belt, and the spike under the opening
entered the mouth, in the vain endeavour to suppress the unruly member.
4. The Rasp. This instrument, the forerunner of the knocker, was formerly
in general use in Edinburgh and elsewhere. The rings hanging upon the
projecting limb were drawn rapidly up and down the surface of the iron,
which in the present instance appears to have been furnished with teeth
both on the projecting part and on that against the wood of the door.
5. Key Plate: is a very pretty Specimen of the 16th Century. Society of
Arts. Edinburgh.