[107]. On this point see F. A. Gasquet, Henry VIII. and the English Monasteries, p. 4. London, 1906.
[108]. Lib. iii. f. 137.
[109]. Nichols’ ed. p. 35.
[110]. See illustration given in Besant, Mediæval London, p. 349. 1906.
[111]. “If, however, they refused to plead, they would be pinioned down on the bare ground and fed upon bread and dirty water; but they were not to eat on the day they drank, or drink on the day they ate, etc.”—Nichols’ ed. p. 26.
[112]. “Vix permittitur heredibus quod vivant.”—De Legibus, lib. iii. f. 118.
[113]. Temp. Henry I., see W. Dugdale, Origines Juridiciales. London, 1680.
Richard, see J. F. Stephen, Hist. Crim. Law, i. p. 458. London, 1883.
Henry III., see W. Page, Early Assize Rolls, p. xviii. etc.
[114]. By the Assize of Northampton. See Stubbs, Const. Hist. i. p. 545.