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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… columns, presumably from the same source. Fittings Coffin-stool: with turned legs and stretchers, late 17th-century. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… pound in 1646; in 1647 order was given to set up a cucking stool and stocks. 86 No court roll of St. John's hospital has …
A History of the County of Sussex
… at the north-east edge after 1959. 12 There was a ducking stool by a pond on the green in the late 18th century and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the river at Patwell, in the next year for a new cucking stool, and in 1698-9 for mending the pillory. A new pillory … pillory and stocks were referred to in 1737-8. The cucking stool was evidently kept in a close behind a tenement on the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to make BAG, BED, BOTTOM (of a bed), COAT, COVERING (for a STOOL), CURTAIN, HANGINGS, headcloth, lining for a GOWN, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… it was probably more often used elliptically for a BUFFET STOOL, which, as the OED's quotations suggest, may sometimes … (late). References: Gloag (1952, revised 1991). Buffet stool [buffut stoole; buffitt stolle; buffette stoole; buffett stoole; buffet stole; buffed stool] Its meaning is uncertain, but it was probably a form …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… no font, its use being supplied by a wooden moveable stool; though there is little cause, perhaps, to lament its …