The history of Charlestown, Massachusetts . s. The County Court sentenced Ursula Cole to be Quoted in Brandes Popular Antiquities. 208 HISTORY OF CHARLESTOWN. whipped, or pay a fine of five pounds for reviling Rev. and Shepard, saying she had as live hear a cat mewas them preach. The Stool of Repentance was a high seat inthe middle alley of the meeting-house, on which culprits, forheinous offences, besides being fined and imprisoned, were obligedto sit on Lecture-days with a paper on their heads on which theiroffence was written. Wearing a halter was another punishment;there are
The history of Charlestown, Massachusetts . s. The County Court sentenced Ursula Cole to be Quoted in Brandes Popular Antiquities. 208 HISTORY OF CHARLESTOWN. whipped, or pay a fine of five pounds for reviling Rev. and Shepard, saying she had as live hear a cat mewas them preach. The Stool of Repentance was a high seat inthe middle alley of the meeting-house, on which culprits, forheinous offences, besides being fined and imprisoned, were obligedto sit on Lecture-days with a paper on their heads on which theiroffence was written. Wearing a halter was another punishment;there are cases, of early date, in which the General Court orderedpersons to wear one for years. The Cage stood on the north sideof the church, and was built in 1677, twelve feet square, under thedirection of the county court. It was repaired in 1705. Thiswas the punishment of Sabbath breakers, who were put into it onLecture-days, and subjected to the gaze and taunts of the Pillory was in use until after the Revolution : this stood in the. market-place; and culprits were commonly treated with lemons,eggs and other offensive missiles, from the crowd. Military pun-ishments, for contempt of officers, were riding the wooden horse,sitting in the Bilboes, or lying neck and Branding andmaiming, the House of Correction, and the Gallows, were modesof punishment. I have not met with an instance of an executionin Charlestown under the First Charter. The Puritans, however stoical their idea of life, however stricttheir laws, however in earnest in spiritual things, were not the un- Law of 1672, May 15. HISTORY OF CHARLESTOWN. 209 social people they are sometimes represented. The inventories oftheir estates prove that they did not neglect the comforts, and evenluxuries of life. There was no lack of variety in their householdestablishments. The kitchens were provided with pewter, tin,brass, and earthen cooking utensils in abundance, conspicuousamong which was that now obsolete roasti
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