Stool Of Repentance

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Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [1]

an elevated seat in a Scottish Church, on which persons were formerly compelled to sit as a punishment for having committed certain of the deadly sins.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

In Scotland in former times an elevated seat in a church on which for offences against morality people did penance and suffered rebuke.

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