- the stool of repentance. Thomas Newte explains in Prospects and Observations, on a Tour in England and Scotland in 1785: In most of the kirks there is a small gallery, fit to contain about half a dozen of persons, and painted black, placed in an elevated situation, near the roof of the church, which they call the cutty-stool, and on which offenders against chastity are forced to sit, during the time of divine service for three Sundays. (See Trilapse.)
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