[676] Oudegherst, Annales de Flandre ed. Lesbroussart. T. I. pp. 426 sqq.; T. II. not. ad. fin.
[677] Coleccion de Cédulas, etc., Madrid, 1830, Tom. VI. p. 142.—Memorial Histórico Español, Madrid, 1850, T. I. p. 47.
[678] Statuta Commun. apud Crispiacum (D’Achery Spicileg. III. 595).
[679] Legg. Villæ de Arkes § xxxi. (Ibid. p. 608).
[680] Libertates Villæ Ricomag. § 6 (Ibid. p. 671).
[681] E sobre ayso que dam e autreyam als borges de la vielle de Maubourguet que totz los embars pusquen provar sens batalhe, etc.—Coutumes de Maubourguet, cap. v. That this, however, was not expected to do away entirely with the battle trial is shown by the regulation prescribed in cap. xxxvii. (Lagrèze, op. cit. pp. 470, 474).
[682] L. Burgorum, c. 14, 15 (Skene).
[683] Warnkönig, Hist. de la Flandre, IV. 129.
[684] In omni mercato Flandriæ si quis clamorem adversus eos suscitaverit, judicium scabinorum de omni clamore sine duello subeant; ab duello vero ulterius liberi sint.—Warnkönig. Hist. de la Flandre, II. 411.
[685] Nemo mercatorem de Flandria duello provocabit (Ibid. II. 426).