[546] Ibid. cap. ccxix. § 6 (Ed. Schilter.).

[547] Chron. Cornel. Zantfliet ann. 1369 (Mart. Ampl. Coll. V. 293-4).

[548] Chron. Augustan. (Pistor. III. 684, Ed. 1726).

[549] Assis. Hierosol. Alta Corte cap. cv. (Canciani, V. 208).

[550] Würdinger, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Kampfrechtes in Bayern, p. 8.

[551] Jur. Provin. Saxon. Lib. I. c. 63, 65.—Sachsische Weichbild, xxxv.—Jur. Provin. Alamann. cap. ccclxxxvi. § 31 (Ed. Schilter.); cap. clxxviii. §§ 7, 8 (Ed. Senckenb.). See Würdinger, p. 11, for the solemn sentence placing the defaulter under the ban.

[552] Proost, Législation des Jugements de Dieu, pp. 18, 21.

[553] For de Morlaas, Rubr. IV. art. 5.

[554] Horne’s Myrror of Justice, cap. iv. sect. 13.—Pipe Roll Society, I. 65.

[555] Schlegel Comment. ad Grágás § 31.—Grágás sect. VIII. cap. 105. A fanciful etymologist might trace to this custom the modern phrase of “posting a coward.”