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

by George Burnham Ives

[185]. Du Cane, p. 43.

[186]. London prisons (British Museum Catalogue, 6056, b. 74), bound pamphlets, p. x. London, 1789.

[187]. Du Cane, p. 41, etc.

[188]. E. B. Tylor in Ency. Brit. ninth ed. art. “Ordeal.”

[189]. For account of the elaborate ritual, see W. Besant, Mediæval London, vol. ii. chap. vi.

W. Dugdale, Origines Juridiciales, chap. xxix.

[190]. Stubbs, Charters, p. 71.

[191]. Besant, Mediæval London, ii. p. 193.

[192]. Thorpe, fol. ed. p. 517.

[193]. Glanville, J. Beames’ ed. p. 350, note.