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'Judge Thumb or Sticks of a Lawful Size for Family Discipline', 1782. A judge says: Here's amusement for married Gentlemen or, a Specific for a Scolding Wife; Who buys of me. A wife is being beaten by her husband with a 'stick of a lawful size': Oh Murder Murder, Oh Cruel Barbarian. Her husband replies: Cruel, ha ha, according to Law, you Jezebel