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

by Henry Charles Lea

[996] Guibert. Noviogent. de Vita sua Lib. III. cap. xxi.

[997] Chron. Andrensis Monast. (D’Achery Spicileg. II. 782).

[998] Villanueva, Viage Literario, T. XIX. p. 42.

[999] Patetta, Le Ordalie, p. 34.

[1000] Hincmar. de Divort. Lothar. Interrog. vi. It may readily be supposed that a skilful management of the rope might easily produce the appearance of floating, when a conviction was desired by the priestly operators.

[1001] L. Æthelstani I. cap. xxiii.

[1002] Martene de Antiq. Eccles. Ritibus Lib. III. c. vii. Ordo 8.

[1003] Petri Cantor. Verb. Abbreviat. cap. lxxviii. (Patrol. CCV. 233).

[1004] De Divort. Lothar. Interrog. vi.

[1005] Ordo S. Dunstani Dorobern. (Baluze II. 650).