"UMBELLATED [_Umbellatus_, L.]; bossed. In _botan. writ._ is said of
flowers when many of them grow together, disposed somewhat like an
_umbrella_. The make is a sort of broad, roundish surface of the whole,
&c. &c."
Horace Walpole (_Memoirs of the Reign of George II._, vol. iii. p. 153.),
narrating the punishment of Dr. Shebbeare for a libel, 5th December, 1758,
says,--
"The man stood in the pillory, having a footman holding an umbrella to
keep off the rain."
In Burrow's _Reports_ (vol. ii. p. 792.), is an account of the proceedings
in the Court of King's Bench against Arthur Beardmore, under-sheriff of
Middlesex, for contempt of court in remitting part of the sentence on Dr.
Shebbeare. The affidavits produced by the Attorney-General stated--
"That the defendant only stood _upon the_ platform of the pillory,
unconfined, and at his ease, attended by a _servant_ in _livery_ (which
servant and livery were hired for this occasion only) holding an
umbrella over his head, all the time:"
and Mr. Justice Dennison, in pronouncing sentence on Beardmore, did not
omit to allude to the umbrella.