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

by George Burnham Ives

[254]. 1 Jac. I. c. 25, s. 34.

[255]. 21 Jac. I. c. 28, s. 7.

[256]. 8 & 9 Will. III. c. 27, s. 15.

[257]. 9 Geo. I. c. 28.

[258]. 11 Geo. I. c. 22.

[259]. Ency. Brit. art. “Wager of Law.”

[260]. Lea, Superstition and Force, p. 23.

[261]. Ibid. p. 21.

[262]. C. Valentinum, iii. c. xi., A.D. 855.

[263]. Forsyth, p. 76.