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 Knight of the Order of John-William (A).Knight of the Rueful Countenance. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Knight of the Post.
 
A man in the pillory, or that has been tied to a whipping-post, is jestingly so called.   1
 


 Knight of the Order of John-William (A).Knight of the Rueful Countenance. 

 
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