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—Anglicé, '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[306] 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."
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]
- [308]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];
- 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]