[76] Mr Barrington has remarked, that “the last trial by battle in England was in the time of Charles I. and that it did not end in the actual combat.” Observations on the Statutes, 3d edition, p. 202. The last instance which occurs of the judicial combat in the history of France, was the famous one between M. Jarnac and M. de la Chaistaignerie, A. D. 1547. Dr. Robertson’s Charles V. vol. 1. p. 298.
[77] Tacit. de mor. Germ. cap. 12. and 25.
[78] Lindenbrog. Cod. Leg. Antiq. p. 1404. Tacit. de mor. Germ. c. 21. LL. Wal. by Wotton, p. 192. 194. LL. Anglo-Saxon, ap. Wilkins, p. 18. 20. 41. Hickes. Dissert. Epist. p. 110. Georgisch, corpus jur. Germ. antiq.
[79] Montesquieu on the Rise and Decline of the Roman Empire. Dr. Geddes, in his Tract concerning the Nations which overturned the Empire of the Romans, p. 21.-26.
[80] Selden’s titles of honour, part 1. chap. 5. § 1.
[81] Procop. de bel. Goth. ap. script. Byz. Jornandes, Paulus Warnefridus, Gregory of Tours. Mably, observations sur l’histoire de France, tom. 1. chap. 1.
[82] Giannone’s hist. of Naples, lib. II. cap. 4.
[83] Bouquet, le droit public de France, èclairci par les monuments de l’antiquité, p. 6.-10. Montesquieu, l’Esprit des loix, liv. 30. chap. 6, 7, 8, 9.
[84] Reliq. Spelm. p. 2.-7.
[85] Potgiesser, de stat. servorum, lib. 2. cap. 1. Montesquieu, l’Esprit des loix, liv. 30. chap. 14. Du Cange, voc. Servus.