Club Bannerette

 

The Club's bannerette depicts a ducking stool which was a common method of punishment from as early as the 13th and 14th Centuries, but had become rare by the end of the 18th Century.

 

In common with the stocks and pillory, it was a punishment based on humiliation before the public. The victim would be placed in the seat with the device, when extended, operating like a seesaw to dip the seat and the occupant in the local river thereby drenching the poor unfortunate. It was mostly used on sellers of short weight or adulterated food, or...... nagging wives!

 

The last recorded use of a ducking stool anywhere in England was in Leominster in 1809 when Jenny Pipes was paraded through the Town on the stool and ducked in the Kenwater by order of the Magistrates. On a later occasion, in 1817, Sarah Leeke was paraded, but could not be ducked as the water level was too low.

 

The original stool is now preserved in Leominster's Priory Church.

Ducking Stool