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	Stool - LoveToKnow 1911
		The stool is an ancient piece of furniture which came into use when the need began to be felt for a seat more easily portable than heavy settles and benches - the chair was an appanage of rank and dignity to which no ordinary person dreamed of aspiring.
		As the Renaissance impulse waned, forms relapsed into cumbrous and unadorned, and, so far as the oak stool of the yeoman and the farmer was concerned, little ornamentation was attempted after the middle of the 17th century.
		The stool of repentance was reserved, chiefly in Scotland, for the public penance of persons who had offended against morality.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Stool (616 words)

	Cucking stool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The cucking-stool or Stool of Repentance, is of very ancient date, and was used by the Saxons, who called it the scealding or scolding stool.
		Tied to this stool the woman, her head and feet bare, was publicly exposed at her door or paraded through the streets amidst the jeers of the crowd.
		Ducking stools have appeared occasionally in film and television, such as in Babes in Toyland, and Doctor Who (The Highlanders, Episode 3).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cucking_stool (611 words)

	Definition of Stool from dictionary.net
		A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
		Stool of a window, or Window stool (Arch.), the flat piece upon which the window shuts down, and which corresponds to the sill of a door; in the United States, the narrow shelf fitted on the inside against the actual sill upon which the sash descends.
		Stool pigeon, a pigeon used as a decoy to draw others within a net; hence, a person used as a decoy for others.
	www.dictionary.net /stool (213 words)

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		The CUTTY STOOL commemorates the riot in St.Giles Cathedral when the new 'anglicised' prayer-book, imposed on Scotland by King Charles I, was used there for the first and last time on 23 July 1637.
		The reading was halted by a stool flung at the minister's head by a woman traditionally known as Jenny Geddes.
		(Stool of Repentance : a low stool placed in front of the pulpit in Scotland, on which persons who had incurred an ecclesiastical censure were placed during divine service.
	homepages.which.net /~mark.hughson/hg/cstool.htm (618 words)

	Search Results for "Repentance"
		...Place for repentance-that is, the licence of drawing back from a bargain, which can be done before any act has been committed to confirm it.
		REPENTANCE A PASTORAL BALLAD THE fields which with covetous spirit we sold, Those beautiful fields, the delight of the day, Would have brought us more good than a...
		...The Repentance of Nineveh 1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, 2 Arise, go unto Nin'eveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Repentance (312 words)

	Stool Chair -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A queening stool is a device which is used to facilitate the act of queening.
		As it is played today, a bowler attempts to hit the stool with the ball, and a batsman defends it, using a frying pan-shaped bat.
		Originally the batsman simply had to defend his stool from each ball with his hand and would score a point for each delivery until the stool was hit.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/142/stool-chair.html (703 words)

	Christ's First and Last Subject
		He knew that repentance was, to spiritual life, a sort of Alpha and Omega—it was the duty of the beginning, it was the duty of the end.
		Repentance is the clearing away of the rubbish of the past temple of sin; holiness builds the new temple which the Lord our God shall inherit.
		Repentance, with the cross before its eyes, is heaven itself; at least, if not heaven, it is so next door to it, that standing on the wet threshold I may see within the pearly portals, and sing the song of the angels who rejoice within.
	www.spurgeon.org /sermons/0329.htm (4668 words)

	STOOL - Online Information article about STOOL
		Joint stools were then created, on three legs Upborn they stood.
		The legs and stretchers took the " twisted form vermicular " of which the poet speaks—so far as their under-framing was concerned these stools were, to all intents and purposes, chairs.
		change places; the conqueror at this game is he who strikes the ball most times before it touches the stool.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /STE_SUS/STOOL.html (1200 words)

	Pardon Me (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		To atone for that behavior, James was required to sit on a stool of repentance, in front of the congregation, for three Sabbath days.
		My making a public appearance before the congregation for reproof on a stool of repentance before a congregation would be such a burden as I could not support especially now that I am reduced to a weak state of body.
		The Moderator gave a very suitable rebuke, represented the sin of uncleanness with its antecedent concomitant and consequent evils showed the necessity of unfeigned repentance and amendment and thereafter absolved him from the scandal and received him back to the communion and privileges of the Church.
	www.murrayofstanhope.com /pardonme.htm (402 words)

	KJV Dictionary - stool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A stool is that which is set, or a seat.
		A sucker; a shoot from the bottom of the stem or the root of a plant.
		Stool of repentance, in Scotland, an elevated seat in the church, on which persons sit as a punishment for fornication and adultery.
	av1611.com /kjbp/kjv-dictionary/stool.html (282 words)

	Stool of repentance - jig
		The stool of repentance was used in Scottish churches as a means of humiliating transgressors - especially adulterers.
		The sinner would sit on a three legged stool in front of the congregation.
		When Niel Gow wrote this tune I don't think he was in repentant mood.
	www.scottish-fiddle.com /stool_of_repentance.htm (139 words)

	DUCKING - Online Information article about DUCKING
		The two have been generally confused, but are quite distinct.
		Stool of Repentance, is of very See also:
		Saxons, who called it the Scealding or Scolding Stool.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DRO_ECG/DUCKING.html (665 words)

	Chapter Stomatitis <i>to</i> Stool of S by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
		A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
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	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1210/24142/6.html (189 words)

	The Session: Tunes - The Stool Of Repentance (jig)
		Also known as Stool Of Repentance, The Waddling Gander.
		Apparently if you had been naughty you were made to sit on this stool in church and be ritually humiliated by the clergy.
		As Robin Williamson said in his book of fiddle tunes the tune is "anything but repentant" and flies along nicely.
	www.thesession.org /tunes/display.php/1138 (541 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Stool of Repentance. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Stool of Repentance.
		A low stool placed in front of the pulpit in Scotland, on which persons who had incurred an ecclesiastical censure were placed during divine service.
		Even in the present century this method of rebuke has been repeated.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/81/15945.html (112 words)

	The Session: Tunes - The Waddling Gander (jig)
		Also known as Stool Of Repentance, The Stool Of Repentance.
		This seems to be a variant of The Stool of Repentance.
		The Stool of Repentance is posted here, but only has two parts.
	www.thesession.org /tunes/display.php/3225 (275 words)

	Short History of St. Michan's Church, Dublin. By Redmond Shouldice, a student at Templeogue College. (c) 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the entrance hall there are the remains of fine organ dating from 1724 that was said to have been played by Handel at the first performance of ‘the Messiah.’ An 18th century organ adorns the West wall; it is decorated with fine carvings of 14 musical instruments.
		Noteworthy are an 18th century stool of repentance, an early 19th century moveable pulpit and the font where Edmund Burke, the orator, was baptised.
		Below the church is the late 17th century crypt containing mummified bodies (crusaders according to tradition).
	www.dchaos.com /portfolio/dchaos1/st_michans.html (276 words)

	Chapter Stone Soup <i>to</i> Stops of S by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
		Stool of Repentance A low stool placed in front of the pulpit in Scotland, on which persons who had incurred an ecclesiastical censure were placed during divine service.
		Gladstone on the stool of repentance.”- The Times.
		Stops Organs have no fixed number of stops; some have sixty or more, and others much fewer.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1184/24240/2.html (740 words)

	Scotland Transformed - Galleries & Displays - Museum of Scotland - National Museums of Scotland
		Membership of a church was initiated with baptism, and from that moment the kirk session had a role in judging and punishing the behaviour of individual members (Case 2).
		The gown and stool of repentance are striking reminders of the nature of public rebuke (Case 4).
		Parishes also made provision for the destitute and granted licences to beg, illustrated by the display of beggars' badges.
	www.nms.ac.uk /scotland/galleries/scotlanddetail.asp?m=4&s=5&catid=54 (229 words)

	Donnybrook, The Stool of Repentance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Well, I've got one to add to the list; Donnybrook's The Stool of Repentance.
		Guests are Jim Dewan on guitar and bouzouki, Declan Fahey on button accordion and Mike Dietz on highland pipes.
		Through wonderful instrumentation and beautiful voice, Donnybrook's Stool of Repentance gives your ear a wonderful trip down 13 tracks of pure enjoyment, arranged just right to take you back and forth through many moods.
	www.rambles.net /donnybrook_stool02.html (333 words)

	The Joy of Sets Volume 1
		It has been used for a single step dance in the morris tradition, and in modern times the melody can be found in the song Westering Home.
		The origin of the title The Stool of Repentance is clear: adulterers (including Robert Burns on one occasion), were often given the penance of sitting themselves for one or two weeks before the entire congregation on the stool of repentance, actually a special seat or stool dedicated for the purpose.
		An early version of the melody can be found in the William Dixon MS (1734), though only the second section plus variations appear.
	www.nigelgatherer.com /pigpipe/joysets/js1a.html (1027 words)

	Foot Stool -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		One day in a miniscule room There sat a lonely stool.
		The batsman scores "runs" by running around a post or marker placed several yards away.
		Categories similar to Foot Stool: Football Legends
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/57/foot-stool.html (701 words)

	Nederlands Dans Theater: PAUL LIGHTFOOT
		His first choreography for a workshop was "Sitting on the Stool of Repentance", created in 1988 and set to music from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
		His second workshop ballet, "Dry Run", followed a year later and was set to fourteenth-century Italian music.
		In this ballet, in which the dancers are tethered to stools, he once again reveals great inventiveness.
	www.euronet.nl /users/cadi/PL.html (371 words)

	stool
		4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stool \Stool\, n.
		See {Stolon}.] (Hort.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
		From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stool \Stool\, v.
	www.beetfoundation.com /words/s/stool.html (233 words)

	The Voice of the People - Song Notes Vols 13 & 14
		Hexham Races was included in The Northumbrian Piper’s Tune Book (first printed 1936) and was later played locally for the Cumberland Square Dance.
		The Stool of Repentance was composed by Neil Gow (1727-1807).
		At the time when Presbyterianism was at its height in Scotland, adulterers (usually women) had to sit for a number of Sundays in front of the assembled congregation on the so-called ‘stool of repentance’.
	www.mustrad.org.uk /vop/notes190.htm (2958 words)

	Scran - Stool of Repentance formerly used in Old Greyfriars Church in Edinburgh
		Scran - Stool of Repentance formerly used in Old Greyfriars Church in Edinburgh
		Title: Stool of Repentance formerly used in Old Greyfriars Church in Edinburgh
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	www.scran.ac.uk /database/record.php?searchfor=000-000-151-283-C+in+usi (91 words)

	Andy Young - Celtic Music on Hammered Dulcimer, Irish Flute, and Tin whistle
		He has also recorded a CD with the singer/ songwriter collective, SOFA featuring more of his original material.
		His most recent recording is Donnybrook’s CD, “The Stool of Repentance” on which he contributes extensively with flute and singing.
		Andy has also composed and produced original music for the modern dance company, Sling.
	www.andyyoungmusic.com /bio.html (375 words)

	Workwithus.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Includes: Fingal's Cave; Sean Trews; Glasgow Gaelic Club; Greenwoodside; Devil in the Kitchen; Miss Drummond of Perth; The Warlocks; Cutting Ferns; Braes o Tyllimet; Thunderhead; Drummond Castle; Stool of Repentance; Brenda Stubbert's; The Old Grey Cat; and many more 43 tunes with guitar chords
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	www.workwithus.org /Buy/shoppingmall/item.asp?id=568 (85 words)

	The Stool of Repentance - Traditional Sheet Music Download
		The Stool of Repentance - Traditional Sheet Music Download
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	www.sunhawk.com /ProductDetail.aspx?ProdID=219027 (111 words)

	John of the Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Traditionally the Kincaids have received their core values from the Holy Bible.
		The history of Campsie Parish in Scotland states that my ancestor, James Kincaid, was required to stand on the stool of repentance and receive a solemn rebuke in public because he worked on the Sabath and violated one of the ten commandments.
		Every Scotsman learns early in life that salt must be put into the oatmeal from the start, before cooking, not afterward.
	home.att.net /~jpkincaid/tomhis-1.html (15008 words)

	Donnybrook - Traditional Celtic Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Holly Bush / Exile of Erin / Sean sa Cheo / Andy McGann's
		Tater Jack Walsh / The Stool of Repentance / Larry O'Gaff
		Both Donnybrook CDs are available at all public Donnybrook performances and in select Chicagoland stores, including Paddy's on the Square (Long Grove), Hogeye Music (Evanston), and Blarney (Schaumburg - Woodfield Mall).
	www.donnybrookband.com /albums.shtml (162 words)

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