jan 1, 1575 - thew
Description:
An instrument of punishment, often for women, evidently one on which a person might be carried. <i>c</i>.1450 <i>schall within the Burgage ordan a pelory and a thew lawfull and strang</i>, New Malton (SS85/60); 1575 <i>Thomas Haxoppes wife a skold ... to be caryed throughe the cyttie of York ... in the market tyme upon the thewe heretofore used in this behalf </i>(YAJ15/229).Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1575
Now
~ 450 years ago