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

by George Burnham Ives

[373]. See J. Johnson and B. Thorpe; also Lea, Middle Ages, i. pp. 464, 473.

[374]. Carte, Hist. i. p. 581. I think it was Herbert Spencer who remarked how completely mere outward material performance or conformity could generally satisfy the mediæval claims.

[375]. 5 Rich. II. c. 5, A.D. 1382.

2 Hen. IV. c. 15, A.D. 1400.

2 Hen. V. c. 7, A.D. 1414.

[376]. C. Triburiense, c. 3, A.D. 895.

Lea, Studies, p. 384.

Stubbs, in Appendix II. Ecc. Courts Comm., 1883, pp. 55, 56.

[377]. He might even be proceeded against on suspicion of heresy if he continued contumelious. See twenty-fifth session of the Council of Trent, Lecourayer, tom. ii. pp. 648, 653.

[378]. Stubbs, Const. Hist. iii. p. 374.