The Spalding Guardian for February 27th, 1904 printed details from a correspondent then in his 78th year of an incident he remembered as a young lad. It apparently took place in 1836 on Spalding market place. The victim was a man who was said to have committed a serious offence. This person “had the reputation among other things of being a wizard and was brought into the town from the Pigeon. an ale house. He was secured to a farmer’s cart drawn by a cart horse”. The unfortunate man received his flogging as the cart moved steadily along a defined route and back to the starting point where he suffered more pain when salt was rubbed into his 10 wounds for good measure. It was one of the last public floggings in England. Flogging of women was abolished in 1820.