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` Their judicial system wasn't perfect, witness the duckingstool.
Mortal Causes Rankin, Ian 1994
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A prison was to be erected in each county; provision was made for pillory and stocks and duckingstool; the Quakers were to be proceeded against; the Baptists who refused to bring children to baptism were to suffer.
Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903
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