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

by George Burnham Ives

[204]. Peers, on account of their position, and citizens of London, on account of their supposably peaceful avocations and by charter, were exempt from having to accept a challenge.—Blackstone, Commentaries, lib. iv.

[205]. The loss of certain teeth was looked upon as a handicap—the peasant fighters made a horrible use of them. Vide H. C. Lea, Superstition and Force, p. 131. Philadelphia, 1878.

[206]. Lingard, Hist. Eng. ii. p. 224.

[207]. Reeves, Hist. i. p. 61.

[208]. Lingard, ii. p. 222.

[209]. Besant, Mediæval London, ii. p. 198.

[210]. Ibid. p. 196.

[211]. Twiss’s Bracton, ii. p. 405. London, 1879.

[212]. Lingard, ii. p. 223.

[213]. Lingard, Hist. p. 224.