Whipping boy definitions

Whipping boy

1) Scapegoat
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Whipping Boy

A whipping boy was formerly a boy servant retained to be whipped in place of a prince when the prince required chastisement. Mungo Murray was the whipping boy employed to be whipped in place of Charles I. Barnaby Fitzpatrick was the whipping boy whipped in place of Edward VI.
Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/CXW.HTM

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