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

by Henry Charles Lea

[500] Ivon. Epist. ccxlvii.

[501] Pet. Cantor. Verb. Abbreviat. cap. lxxviii.

[502] Migne’s Patrologia, T. 188, p. 1287.

[503] Baildon, Select Civil Pleas, I. 43.

[504] Lib. Pract. de Consuetud. Remens, passim (Archives Législatives de Reims).

[505] Archives Adminst. de Reims, T. I. p. 822.

[506] Actes du Parlement de Paris, T. I. p. cccvii.

[507] Cartulaire de l’Église de Paris, III. 433. After the first blows the parties could be separated on payment of a fine to the court, from the recipient of which the name is evidently derived. Apparently the good canons drew a distinction between awarding the duel and engaging in it, for we have already seen (p. 159) that twenty-four years before they had obtained from Innocent IV. a special privilege exempting them from the necessity of maintaining their rights by battle.

[508] Cartulaire de l’Église de Paris, I. 234.

[509] Ibid. I. 79-80.