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THEW
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Thewe
, Caveæ, vel scabelli genus, quo mulieres rixosas et in lacessendo procaces in aquam mergunt apud Anglos, a Saxonico þeow, Servus, homo vilis. Placitum in Itiner. apud Cestriam ann. 14. Henrici VII. : Georgius Grey Comes Cantii clamat in maner. de Bushton et Ayton punire delinquentes contra assisam panis et cervisiæ per tres vices per amerciamenta, et quarta vice pistores per pilloriam, braciatores per tumbrellum, et rixatrices per Thewe, hoc est ponere eas super scabellum vocatum a Cucking stoole. Monasticum Anglic. tom. 1. pag. 977 : Habere possint Thew, pillorium atque tumbrellum pro punitione malefactorum. Vide Blount in Nomolexico Anglicano

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