[48] Sismondi, Hist. des Français, Part. IV. ch. 12, Tom. VIII. p. 196.
[49] Selden, The Duello, or Single Combat, from Antiquity derived into this Kingdom of England; also, Table Talk, Duel: Works, Vol. III. col. 49-84, 2027.
[50] Madox, Hist. of Exchequer, Vol. I. p. 349.
[51] "Est autem magna Assisa regale quoddam beneficium, ... quo vitæ hominum et status integritati tam salubriter consulitur, ut in jure quod quis in libero soli tenemento possidet retinendo, duelli casum declinare possunt homines ambiguum.... Jus enim, quod post mullas et longas dilationes vix evincitur per duellum, per beneficium istius constitutionis commodius et acceleratius expeditur." (Glanville, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Angliæ, Lib. II. cap. 7.) These pointed words are precisely applicable to our Arbitrament of War, with its many and long delays, so little productive of justice.
[52] Robertson, Hist. Charles V., Vol. I. note 22.
[53] Proceedings in the Court of Chivalry, on an Appeal of High Treason by Donald Lord Rea against Mr. David Ramsay, 7 Cha. I., 1631: Hargrave's State Trials, Vol. XI. pp. 124-131.
[54] Hansard, Parl. Debates, XXXIX. 1104. Blackstone, Com., III. 337: Chitty's note.
[55] Juvenal, Sat. XIII. 105. The same judgment is pronounced by Fénelon in his counsels to royalty, entitled, Examen de Conscience sur les Devoirs de la Royauté.
[56] Discourse before the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, by A.H. Vinton.
[57] Earl of Abingdon, May 30, 1794: Hansard, Parl. Hist., XXXI. 680.