Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics

by George Burnham Ives

[115]. 2 Hen. III., Carta de Foresta; and also 9 Hen. III. c. 10: “No man henceforth shall lose either life or member for killing our deer.”

[116]. Sax. Chron., Ingram’s ed. p. 266.

Ibid. p. 295.

Mirror of Justice, Whittaker’s ed. p. 141.

[117]. J. C. Robertson, Materials for the History of Thomas Becket, vol. i. p. 156. London, 1875. Referred to by Stephen, Hist. Crim. Law, i. p. 79.

[118]. Hist. Eng. Law, ii. p. 515.

[119]. Ibid. ii. p. 516.

[120]. For example, a fine of one mark (13s. 4d.) for rape.

[121]. See Mirror of Justice, Whittaker’s ed., Introduction, pp. xxiv., xxxv., and 1st ed. iii. c. 7.

Holdsworth, Hist. Eng. Law, p. 39.