The Rod In And Out Of School.

THE ROD IN AND OUT OF SCHOOL .

i BY BRO . JOHN HENRY LEGGOTT . ( Concluded from page 487 . ) gather from Chambers' Book of Days that " In the Quarter Sessions

WE at Wycomb , in Bucks , hold on the 5 th of May , 1698 , an order was passed directing all constables and other parish officers to search for vagrants , etc ., and all such persons which they shall apprehend in any such search , or shall take begging , or wandering , or misconducting themselves , the said constables , head-boroughs , or tj'thing-men , being assisted with some of the other parishioners , shall cause to be whipped naked from the middle upwards

and be openly whipped till the body shall be bloody . " The law was strictly enforced , not only in Bucks , but in other counties . From the same work we cull the following : — " In the constable ' s accounts at Great Staughton , Huntingdonshire , the following curious items appear . 169 ? . Pel- in charges taking up a distracted woman , watching her , and whipping her next day , 8 s . 6 d . 171 ? . Spent on London nurse for searching the woman to see if she was with child before she was wdiipped , 3 of them , 2 s .

P'l- Thomas Hawkins for whipping 2 people that had the small-pox , 8 d . 171 j . Pel- for watching , victuals , and drink for May Mitchell , 2 s . 6 d . P'l- for whipping her , ' 4 d . 1712 . Pd . for whipping Goody Barry , 4 tZ . " Men and women were whipped promiscuously , but not always at the cart-tail . In the record of the proceedings of the Corporation of Doncaster , May Sth , 1713 there appears the following order— " A whipping post to be set up at

, the Stocks at Butcher Cross , for ] iunishing vagrants and sturd y beggars . " Stocks and whipping posts were once to be found in almost every township , and there are specimens of these still in existence in some few jdacos . . The celebrated Judge Jeffrey ' s was notorious for his partiality for the rod and the intensity of the punishment administered b y his orders . We are told by Mi-. Cooper that on one occasion when sentencing a woman to be whipped

he said , " Hangman , I charge you to pay particular attention to this lad y ! Scourge her soundly , man ; scourge her till her blood runs clown ! It is Christinas , a cold time for madam to strip in ! See that you warm her shoulders thoroughly ! "

It was under this infamous judge that Titus Gates met with a w ell deserved punishment for his crimes , but it was so inhumanly severe that it involuntaril y excites our pity . He was found guilty on tw o charges and sentenced , " To pay on each indictment a fine of 1000 marks ; to be stript of all his canonical robes , to be imprisoned for life ; to stand in the pillory on the following Monday with a paper on his head declaring his crime ; next day . to stand in the pillory at the Royal Exchange with the same inscription ; on the Wednesday

to be wdiipped from Aldgate to Newgate ; on the Friday to be whipped from Newgate to Tyburn ; upon the 24 th of April in every year during life to stand in the pillory at Tyburn opposite the gallows ; on the 9 th of August in every year to stand in the pillory opposite Westminster Hall Gate ; on the 10 th of August in every year to stand in the pillory at Charing Cross , and the like on the following day at Temple Bar , to be continued on the 2 nd of September every year at the Royal Exchange . King James , when appealed to for a