The “Proceedings of the London Courts” were the popular publications circulated from 1674-1913, and included witty phrases and popular jargon that wouldn’t appear in the actual court records. “Shove the fumbler” was both a crass description of the sex act, but more importantly in this case, was synonymous with being strapped to the back of a cart and whipped; borne out by the author’s clarification “OR receive the correction of the gentle lash for several crimes respectively no less tedious etc” The ‘gentle’ lash was a humorous jibe also - the lash was anything but gentle, and wasn’t banned in British prisons until 1948! (Publicly banned in 1868).
I found this is a paper entitled “A Century in the Making: The Glorious Revolution, the American Revolution, and the Origins of the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment” by John D. Bessler
William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal
Volume 27 (2018-2019)
Issue 4 Article 4
May 2019
“Shove the Fumbler” is a phrase used to mean to “[b]e whipped at the cart’s tail.” 1 EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, PAUL CLIFFORD 16 n.1 (1893).
In England, offenders (mostly those convicted of theft) were usually sentenced to be flogged “at a cart’s tail” along a length of public street, usually near the scene of the crime, “until his [or her] back be bloody”.
“To be whipped at the cart’s tail” was a harsh public punishment in England and its colonies where an offender was stripped to the waist, tied to the rear of a moving cart, and flogged through the public streets. [[1]