given with great spirit by a youth, mounted after the customary manner
on a ladder, to the evident enjoyment of a large gathering of the
inhabitants, who were enraged at the brutal treatment of a woman by her
husband:
"Here we come with a ran, dan, dang:
It's not for you, nor for me, we ride this stang;
But for ----, whose wife he did bang.
He banged her, he banged her, he banged her indeed:
He banged her, poor creature, before she stood need.
He took up neither tipstaff nor stower,
But with his fist he knocked her backwards ower;
He kicked her, he punched her, till he made her cry,
And to finish all, he gave her a black eye.
Now, all you good people that live in this row,
We would have you take warning, for this is our law:
If any of you, your wives you do bang,
We're sure, we're sure, to ride you the stang."
"Last night," says the _Sunderland Daily Post_ of March 1st, 1887, "some
excitement was caused in Northallerton by the celebration of the old
custom of 'riding the stang,' which is to expose some one guilty of
gross immoral practices, and of a breach of sacred matrimonial rights.
Some hundreds of people followed the conveyance, in which two effigies
were erected and exhibited through the principal streets. At intervals,
a person in the conveyance shouted out in rhyme their object, and said
they fully intended to make a complete celebration of the custom, which
is to 'ride the stang' three nights in succession, and on the last night
to burn the effigies on the green near the church."
The stang was ridden at the ancient town of Hedon, 18th, 19th, and 20th
February, 1889.
The house of the culprit is visited several times each night, and the
proceedings kept up three nights in succession, and a circuit of the
church is also made, as it is believed that those taking part in the
ceremony will not be amenable to the law, if they do not omit this part
of the custom. If the offence is a very serious one, the offender is
burnt in effigy before his own door. In the olden days, the offender
himself was often compelled to ride the stang.
Several of the old poets refer to this ancient usage. Allan Ramsay, in
one of his poems, published in 1721, says:
"They frae a barn a kaber raught
And mounted wi' a bang,
Betwisht twa's shoulders, and sat straught,
Upon't and _rade the stang
On her_ that day."
Mr. Geo. Roberts, of Lyme Regis, forwarded to Sir Walter Scott some
interesting notes on skimmington-riding. He informed Sir Walter that in
the South of England: "About dusk two individuals, one armed with a
skimmer and the other with a ladle, came out of some obscure street
attended by a crowd, whose laughter, huzzas, etc., emulate the
well-known _charivari_ of the French. The two performers are sometimes
in a cart, at other times on a donkey; one personating the wife, the
other the husband. They beat each other furiously with the culinary
weapons above described, and, warmed by the applause and presence of so
many spectators (for all turn out to see a skimmington), their dialogue
attains a freedom, except using surnames, only comparable with their
gestures. On arriving at the house of the parties represented in the
moving drama, animation is at its height: the crowd usually stay at the
spot some minutes, and then traverse the town. The performers are
remunerated by the spectators: the parties who parade the streets with
the performers sweep with brooms the doors of those who are likely to
require a similar visitation."
Dr. King, in his "Miscellany," thus refers to the subject:
"When the young people ride the skimmington,
There is a general trembling in the town;
Not only he for whom the party rides
Suffers, but they sweep other doors besides;
And by the hieroglyphic does appear
That the good woman is the master there."
According to Douce, _skimmington_ is derived from _skimming-ladle_, used
in the ceremony.
In Butler's "Hudibras," considerable attention is paid to the custom. A
few of the lines are as follow:
"And now the cause of all their fear,
By slow degrees approached so near,
Of horns, and pans, and dogs, and boys,
And kettle-drums whose sullen dub,
Sounds like the hooping of a tub;
. . .
And followed with a world of tall lads,
That merry ditties troll'd and ballads.
. . .
Next pans and kettles of all keys,
From trebles down to double base:
. . .
And at fit periods the whole rout
Set up their throat with clamorous shout."
A notice of an old Welsh ceremony appeared in the _Liverpool Mercury_ on
March 15th, 1887, and it will not be without interest to reproduce it.
"That ancient Welsh custom," says the writer, "now nearly obsolete,
known as riding the ceffyl pren--_Anglice_, 'wooden-horse'--and intended
to operate as a wholesome warning to faithless wives and husbands, was
revived on Saturday night in an Anglesey village some three miles from
Llangefni. The individual who had drawn upon himself the odium of his
neighbours had parted from his wife, and was alleged to be persistent in
his attentions to another female. On Saturday night a large party
surrounded the house, and compelled him to get astride a ladder,
carrying him shoulder-high through the village, stopping at certain
points to allow the womankind to wreak their vengeance upon him. This
amusement was kept up for some time until the opportune arrival of a
sergeant of police from Llangefni, who rescued the unlucky wight."
[Illustration: Ye Ende]
Index.
Aberdeen, jougs at, 180
Abusing a mistress, 179
Admiralty of the Humber, Court of the, 3-5
Adultery, 232-241
Alban, burnt to death, 98
Aldbury stocks, 200
Alfreton, 143
Alive, gibbeted, 58, 76-77
Altrincham, 284
American punishments, 206-207, 274-275
Anglo-Saxon punishments, 41, 186
Applegirth, jougs at, 183
Aram, Eugene, 53-55
Argyle, Earl of, 132
Ascham, R., 177
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, finger pillory at, 171-172
Ashton-under-Lyne, 174
Athens, books burnt at, 159
Attempted murder, last execution for, 38
Attwood, Wm., 169
Balmerino, Lord, 115
Banishing women, 250
Bank note not to be imitated, 33
Bank Restriction Barometer, 35
Barnsley, whipping at, 216-217
Barrock, gibbet at, 58
Battle Abbey, abbot of, 1
Bawtry, saddler of, 12
Baynard's Castle, 95
Beaudesart, finger-pillory at, 173
Becket, murder of, 227
Beggars' Litany, 118
Beheading, 4, 108-117
Bellman at Newgate, 12
Benefit of Clergy, 139
Beverley stocks, 193
Bewick's gibbets, 78
Bible burnt, 160
Bierton, gibbet at, 55
Black Isle, penance at, 241
Blasphemer in the pillory, 156
Boiling to death, 106-107
Bolas, Robert and William, 46-48
Boleyn, Anne, 109, 111
Boleyn, George, 111
Bowl, St. Giles's, 11
Bradford ducking-stool, 259
Bramhall stocks, 199
Branding, 138-142
Brandreth, Turner, and Ludlam, execution of, 81-85
Brank, or scold's bridle, 276-298
Bridlington jougs, 181, 184;
pillory, 152
Brigg, inhabitants of, petitioning against a gibbet, 73
Broadwater ducking-stool, 255
Broughton, Spence, gibbeted, 67
Bullingham Court, 225
Burnham, 218
Burning books, 159-175
Burning to death, 98-105
Bury St. Edmunds, curious epitaph at, 31;
execution at, for robbery, 31
Cambridge, ducking-stool, 247;
trials at, 89
Candles, flogging with, 209
Canterbury, More's head buried at, 111;
pillory, 150
Cart tail, whipping at, 210, 219, 221, 222
Carted out of the town, 182
Cato Street conspirators, 85
Charles I. beheaded, 108
Cheapside pillory, 147, 148
Chelmsford, gibbeting at, 101
Cheshire branks, 279
Chester cucking-stool, 244;
thewe, 245
Chesterfield brank, 290;
ducking-stool, 262
Chevin, near Belper, gibbets on, 72;
set on fire, 72
Children, whipping, at executions, 224
China, Cang in, 157-158
Chippenham, gibbet at, 60
Clever Tom Clinch, 13
Clipping coin, hanged for, 2
Clova, jougs at, 184-185
Cobham, Eleanor, penance of, 228-230
Coffins conveyed with criminals to the gallows, 37
Coleshill whipping-post, 222-223
Colleen Bawn, 17-18
Collingbourne, 161
Collingham, gallows at, 1-2
Congleton brank, 279
Constable, gibbeted at Hull, 43
Cook, James, last man gibbeted, 75
Cornhill pillory, 146
Cornwall, 244
Cost of an Execution, 23-24
Coventry ducking-stool, 252
Cromwell, Thomas, 111
Cruikshank on executions, 31-34
Crusaders punished by drowning, 95
Cucking-Stool, 244
Dame's school finger pillory, 174-175
Danes, mutilation under the, 135
Daventry ducking-stool, 251
Defoe, Daniel, 166-168
Deplorable conduct of hangman, 29
Derby, trial for high treason at, 80-85;
curious story, 58;
ducking-stool, 262;
gibbet, 57-58
Derbyshire, gibbets in, 42;
women, 289
Devil's punch bowl, 61
Devonshire, 215
Diary of a lady of quality, 224-226
Dinners after executions, 25
Ditton, penance at, 238
Doddington Park, brank at, 293
Doncaster whipping-post, 115
Dowe, Robert, 12
Driffield, pillory at, 152
Driven in own carriage to execution, 16
Drowning, 95-97
Drummed out of a town, 181
Drunkard's cloak, 201-208
Drunkards put in stocks, 191-198
Ducking-Stool, 243-275
Duddingston, jougs at, 185
Dudley, Lord, 109
Dumfries, hangman's dues, 25-29;
jougs at, 179
Dundee, 240
Durham, penance at, 232
Duval, Claude, 13
East Ardsley ducking-stool, 259
East Clevedon, penance at, 238
Edinburgh branks, 297;
penance at, 240
Essex, Earl of, 113
Executed for leaving open a gate, 2-3
Exeter, executions at, 2-3
Farewell address, strange, 22-23
Feasting at funerals, 24
Fenwick, jougs at, 183
Ferrers, Earl, 17
Finger-Pillory, 171-175
First Book of Discipline, 239
First instance of hanging, drawing and quartering, 80
First private execution, 38
Fisher, John, 111
Floyde, Edward, 148
Forest laws, 135
Galashiels, jougs at, 183
Galston, 182
Gardner, Ralph, 202
Gaveston, Piers, 223
Germany, drunkard's cloak in, 205
Gibbeted alive, 58, 76-77
Gibbet and gallows in Ogilby's book, 39
Gibbet, cost of, 56
Gipsies, 138
Glasgow brank, 276
Gloucester, Duke of, 228
Godly butchery, 79
Gretton stocks, 195
Grey, Lady Jane, 109
Grinrod's ghost, 51-53
Haddon Hall, curious relic at, 208
Halifax gibbet, 118-127
Hanging, 1-38
Hanging, drawing, and quartering, 79-86
Hanging in chains, 39-78
Hangman's dues, 25-29
Hardwick, forest of, 118-127
Harris, Phoebe, 104
Harvest workmen and stocks, 200
Hayes, Catherine, 101
Hedon, riding stang at, 303;
thewe at, 245
Helsby Tor, gibbet on, 64
Henry II., penance of, 226
Henry IV. of Germany, 228
Henry VIII., hanging reign, 3
Hereford, executions at, 30
Hertfordshire, gibbets in, 42, 50
Hind Head, gibbet at, 61-63
Holinshed's Chronicle, 118-119
Holland, drunkard's cloak in, 205
Horne, W. A., 16
Hornsea pennels, 55
Howard, Katherine, 109, 111
Hoyle's drawing of Halifax gibbet, 124
Hull ducking-stool, 256;
gibbet, 43;
Mayor, 4;
penance, 232;
pillory, 151;
Prayer Book burnt, 163
Humber, Admiral of, 4
Insufficiency of pillory, action for, 157
Ipswich ducking-stool, 262-264, 265
Jarrow, gibbet at, 73-75
Jedburgh, 240
Jeffreys, Judge, 217
Jews hanged, 2
Johnson, Dr. S., 243
Jougs, the, 176-185
Keach, Benjamin, 164-166
Killed in the pillory, 156
Kilmarnock, Earl of, 115
Kilmaurs, jougs at, 183
King of the Peak, 5
King's Lynn, boiling to death, 106-107;
burning to death, 99;
ducking-stool, 266
Kingston-upon-Thames ducking-stool, 270
Kirkby ducking-stool, 261
Kirkham brank, 285
Kirton-in-Lindsey whipping-post, 223-224
Knaresborough Forest, Aram gibbeted at, 55
Labienus, 160
Lancaster Castle, 140
Last person burnt, 104
Last public execution, 38
Laud, Archbishop, 114
Leeds ducking-stool, 257
Legend of the hare, 8
Leicester brank, 292;
cucking-stool, 244;
ducking-stool, 271;
gibbet, 75
Leighton, Dr., 162
Leominster ducking-stool, 271
Lesmahagow, jougs at, 182
Lichfield brank, 287
Lilburne, 163
Lincoln, burning to death at, 100
Lingard, Anthony, gibbeted, 68-71
Littlecote Hall, finger-pillory at, 172
Liverpool ducking-stool, 268
Lochcarron, penance at, 242
London, jougs at, 177
Lovat, Lord, 116-117
Ludlow brank, 295
Lynch law, 5
Macclesfield brank, 276, 282, 284
Mails, gibbeted for robbing, 60, 64, 70, 72
Manchester brank, 285;
ducking-stool, 268;
pillory, 152
Maritime laws, 3-5
Marlowe, Christopher, 161
Market Drayton brank, 297;
stocks, 194
Mary Queen of Scots, execution of, 109
Melton Ross, gallows at, 8-11
Merrington, gibbet at, 44
Merton, jougs at, 183
Methven, Paul, 240
Midgley, Dr. S., 124
Miles's gibbet, 64-67
Milton's books burnt, 162
Misson on the ducking-stool, 246
Monasteries and the poor, 209
Monmouth, Duke of, 115
More, Sir Thomas, 111
Morley brank, 277;
ducking-stool, 259
Morpeth brank, 286
Morton, Earl of, 128-131
Murphy, last person burnt, 105
Mutilation, 134-137
Nayler, Jas., 138-139
Neglecting to attend church, 183
Nevison, 278
Newbury stocks, 197
Newcastle-on-Tyne, brank at, 202;
cruel magistrates, 204;
drunkard's cloak at, 201-205;
pillory, 150
Newcastle-under-Lyme brank, 287-288
Norfolk, Duke of, 112
North Aston, penance at, 234
North Briton, the, 169
North Cave, penance of Vicar, 232
Northallerton, riding stang at, 302
Northampton, branding, 141;
hanging, 37;
woman burnt to death, 101
Northumberland, Duke of, 112
Norwich ducking-stool, 264
Not raising his bonnet, 178
Nottingham brank, 292;
ducking-stool, 265;
funeral sermons, 34;
hanging, 16;
whipping, 219
Numa Pompilius, 159
Oates, Titus, 149
Ockam in the pillory, 145
Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 239
Ordeal of touch, 7
Oswestry brank, 296
Oxford brank, 294
Paisley, books burnt, 170;
execution, 25;
penance at, 241;
Parish registers at Halifax, 125
Paulmy, pillory at, 145-146
Peine forte et dure, 87-94
Pendleton Moor, gibbet at, 51-53
Pentrich, plot planned at, 80
Pepys, S., 148
Pillory, the, 143-158
Pirate gibbeted at Hornsea, 55
Plymouth ducking-stools, 266-268
Popish plot, 149
Prayer Book burnt, 163
Prayers at St. Sepulchre's Church, 13
Pressing to death, 87-94
Preston brank, 286;
pillory, 152
Prynne, W., 163
Public executions, 38
Public penance, 227-238
Punishing Authors and Burning Books, 159-170
Pythagoras, 159
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 113
Ratcliff Highway, 247
Refusing to plead, 87-94
Repentance stool, 239-242
Riddle, a grim, 58
Riding the stang, 299-306
Ridware Beaudesart brank, 287
Rioting at executions, 14-16
Rizzio, murder of, 131
Rochester, Bishop of, 106-111
Rochford, Viscountess, 111
Rome, books burnt at, 159
Romilly, Sir Samuel, advocates humane reforms, 86
Roose boiled to death, 106
Ross, Sir William, 9
Rothesay, 179
Roxby, penance at, 233
Rugby ducking-stool, 254
Rushmere Heath, burning to death on, 103
Rye, gibbeting at, 48;
pillory 154
Sabbath-breaking, 190
Sack-cloth, 239
Saddler of Bawtry, 12
Salisbury, Countess of, 112
Sancton, penance at, 237
Sandwich, drowning at, 96;
ducking-stool, 248
Scarborough ducking-stool, 262-263
Scotch pedlars whipped, 216
Scotland, drowning, 96;
gibbeting, 43;
stocks in, 190
Scottish Maiden, 128-133
Scrooby, gibbet at, 59
Second statute of labourers, 187
Selby ducking-stool, 258
Servants, whipping, 224-226
Seymour, Lord, 112
Shakespeare and the stocks, 188-189
Shelley on an execution, 84
Shooting at a gibbeted man, 59
Shore, Jane, penance of, 230-232
Shrewsbury brank, 296
Shropshire Assizes, 136;
gibbet, 46
Shrouds of condemned criminals, 34
Silken rope, 17-18
Sixteen-string Jack, 14
Skimmington-riding, 303
Skipton ducking-stool, 260;
stocks, 198
Slaves branded, 138
Slight offences, executions for, 30
Somerset, Duke of, 112
Southam ducking-stool, 251
Splicing the rope, 25
St. Andrews, boy punished, 178;
brank, 298
St. Paul's Churchyard, books burnt in, 160
St. Giles's bowl, 11
Stafford, Viscount, 114
Staffordshire branks, 287
Stanfield, Philip, 43
Stanningley stocks, 196
Stockport brank, 282;
stocks, 200
Stocks, the, 186-200
Stokesley, penance at, 235-237
Stow, penance at, 241
Strafford, Earl of, 114
Strangeways, Major, 92-93
Stubbs, 161
Suffolk, Duke of, 112
Surrey, Earl of, 112
Sutton, riding stang at, 301
Swimming a witch, 50
Taylor on Halifax law, 122;
on whipping-posts, 211
Thewe, 245
Thurlow, Lord, on the pillory, 155
Tolbooth, Edinburgh, 129
Tower of London, 110
Tring, gibbet at, 50-51
Tudor manners, 177
Tumbrel, 268
Tutor's Assistant, drawing by Cruikshank, 226
Tyburn, 11
Tyrwhitt, Robert, 9
Uckington Heath, gibbet on, 46
Upton Common, gibbet, 63
Vagrancy, 210
Vernon, Sir George, 5
Wakefield ducking-stool, 258;
jougs, 184;
penance, 234;
whipping, 220
Wallingford pillory, 244
Walsall brank, 287, 288
Waltham Abbey whipping-post, pillory and stocks, 211-214
Walton-on-Thames, brank at, 278
Wardlow, gibbet at, 71
Warrington brank, 285;
museum, 67
Warton, 165
Warwick, tumbrel at, 270
Wedding clothes, executed in, 17
Welsh customs, 305
West Calder, 239
Whip-cord, torturing with, 89
Whipping Act, 210
Whipping and Whipping-Posts, 209-226
Whiston stocks, 192
Whitchurch brank, 297
Whitfield, notorious highwayman, 58
Wigtown, hangman at, 18;
last execution at, 21;
jougs, 179
William the Conqueror introduces beheading, 108
Williams, bookseller, 169-170
Wilson, Alexander, 170
Winchester, coiners punished at, 135
Wirksworth, penance at, 233
Witchcraft, 50;
burning to death for, 99
Wolsey, Cardinal, in the stocks, 193
Women drowned, 95;
whipped, 218
Wootton Bassett, tumbrel at, 268-269
Worcester, 115, 217-218, 296
Worsborough ducking-stool, 259
Yarmouth, pirate gibbeted at, 67
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The Church Treasury of History, Custom, Folk-Lore, etc.
EDITED BY WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.
_Demy 8vo., 7s. 6d. Numerous Illustrations._