"rough music"and the OED

[Joel S. Berson]

"Rough music" is defined in OED2 only in the literal sense of "noisy
uproar", with its earliest cite 1708.  But it also seems to have been
used to describe extra-legal punishment.  "'Rough music' is the
generic English name for the ritual of punishment in which a person
violating the community's norms of morality was paraded on a horse or
donkey, a wooden horse, or a poll or staff" (Jacob & Jacob, ed., _The
Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism (1991), page 189).

Should this sense be added to the OED's definition?  (I do not have
any 18th c. quotations.)

Joel

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