Superstition and Force / Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture

by Henry Charles Lea

[249] Conc. Lateran. IV. can. iii.—Decret. Gregor. P. P. IX. (Harduin. VII. 163).

[250] Hartzheim Conc. Germ. III. 542-50.—Alberic. Trium Font. ann. 1233-4.—Gest. Treviror. c. 175.

[251] Jacob. Simancæ de Cathol. Instit. Tit. lvi. No. 3, 4 (Romæ, 1575).

[252] Simancæ, loc. cit. No. 31.—Villadiego, Fuero Juzgo, p. 318 b (Madrid, 1600).—Both of these authorities stigmatize it as “fragilis et periculosa, cæca et fallax.”

[253] Simancæ, loc. cit. No. 12.

[254] Simancæ, loc. cit. No 17.

[255] Strype’s Ecclesiastical Memorials, I. 87.

[256] Reformator. Constant. Decretal. Lib. V. Tit. ii. cap. 1, 3 (Von der Hardt, Tom. I. P. XII. pp. 739, 742).

[257] Angeli de Clavasio Summa angelica, s. v. Purgatio.

[258] Baptistæ de Saulis Summa rosella, s. v. Purgatio.