ccasions. Among the most notoriouspersons who have done penance was OliverCromwell. He was publicly rebuked in 1621, andin 1626, it was recorded— Hoc anno Oliverus THE STOOL OF REPENTANCE. 97 Cromwell fecitponitentiam corum totam ecclesiam.This deserves to rank at least with the famousexample of… … Repentance Stool, from Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh. (Now in Scottish AntiquarianMuseum). and in some of the Lowland counties sackclothwas provided at the Kirk-Sessions for the use ofecclesiastical offenders. This practice was aban-doned, however, about the beginning of the lastcentury. But we find in…
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