The court records for the trials at the Misummer “Quarter Sessions” in Breconshire in 1725 have been carefully preserved for posterity in the Powys County Archives:
The handwriting’s hard to decipher, so here goes:
“Margaret Luke being indicted at this Sessions for ye felonious stealing of one Bodice of ye Goods of Walter Davies and upon her Tryall Convicted of ye said offence It is by this Court ordered that she be stript from ye waist upward and publickly whipt tomorrow Morning between ye hours of eleven and twelve from ye East Gate to ye West Gate in ye Town of Brecon.”
I just do wonder what Mr Walter Davies was doing with a bodice? Isn’t that a ladies’ garment?
Of course she shouldn’t have taken the bodice, even if she thought he didn’t need it. So it was poetic justice that her own bodice had to be removed for her punishment.
I just hope that Brecon was a very small place at that time so the distance from East gate to West gate wasn’t too much for her!
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I would like to see Sarah Palin. Cindy McCain, and Condoleezza Rice, “Publickly Whipt”. How I wish my dream would come true?
I’d prefer it be ye bonny bottom that is stript.
I would like to have Gretchen Carlson of Fox News and Friends publicly whipped. For spreading spouting ‘yellow jounalism.’, each day of the week. Her biased reportings are pure unadulterated hot air baloney. As such she should be taken to a public whipping post, her dress raised waist high, her bloomers taken down to her ankles, and on that voluptous bare bottom of hers, spanked blushing bright red.