[105] Camden’s ‘Annals of the Year 1581.’
[106] Dr. Bastwick’s daughter, Mrs. Poe, after his ears were cut off, called for them, put them in a clean handkerchief, and carried them away with her.
[107] No. 45 of the ‘North Briton’ charged the king with falsehood, and was the basis of the prosecutions; 45 became in consequence a popular number with the patriots. Tradesmen called their goods “forty-five”; and snuff so styled was still sold in Fleet Street only a few years ago. Horne Tooke declares that the Prince of Wales aggravated his august father, when the latter was flogging him, by shouting “Wilkes and 45 for ever!”
[108] Lords of Leet were obliged to keep up a pillory or tumbrel, on pain of forfeiture of the leet; and villages might also be compelled to provide them.
[109] The last stocks in London were those of St. Clement’s Dane’s in Portugal Street, which were removed in 1826, to make way for local improvements.—Wade, ‘British Chronology.’
[110] ‘Punishments in the Olden Time,’ by William Andrews, F.R.H.S., to which I am indebted for many of my facts.
[111] This was not an uncommon offence. One Mary Hamilton was married fourteen times to members of her own sex. A more inveterate, but a more natural, bigamist was a man named Miller, who was pilloried, in 1790, for having married thirty different women on purpose to plunder them.
[112] The ‘Reliquary,’ edited by Llewellyn Jewitt, F.S.A.
[113] On the first introduction of the treadwheel in the early decades of the present century, its use was not restricted to males, and women were often made to suffer this punishment.
[114] Whipping females was not abolished till 1817.