Tyne and Wear HER(5643): Gateshead, ducking stool - Details
5643
Gateshead
Gateshead, ducking stool
Gateshead
NZ26SE
Civil
Punishment Place
Ducking Stool
Post Medieval
C17
Documentary Evidence
The account books of the church warden of St. Mary, contain references to events in Gateshead during the 17th century and 18th century, including the provision of a ducking stool, presumably associated with the Gateshead witch-hunt of 1649 (see also HER 5604).
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NZ2563
<< HER 5643 >> 18th century, St Mary's Church - churchwarden's accounts
E. MacKenzie & M. Ross, 1834, An Historical View of Durham,pp 89-90