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

by George Burnham Ives

W. Page, Early Assize Rolls, p. xx.

[122]. Of robbery by the judges, see Lingard, Hist. ii. p. 217.

[123]. For instance, at Northampton in 1323; see Coulton, Chaucer and his England, p. 284.

[124]. Pike, Hist. Crime, i. p. 288.

[125]. Riley’s ed. p. 448.

[126]. See Pike, Hist. Crime, i. p. 427.

[127]. Maitland, Const. Hist. p. 221, ed. 1908.

[128]. 22 Hen. VIII. c. 9.

[129]. W. Besant, Tudors, p. 380. London, 1904; and see 25 Hen. VIII. c. 14.

[130]. J. F. Stephen, Hist. Crim. Law, p. 477.