[1016] Recess. Convent. Alsat. anno 1051, § 6 (Goldast. Constit. Imp. II. 48).
[1017] De Legg. Angliæ Lib. XIV. cap. i.
We have seen above (p. 292), however, that this rule was by no means invariable. In addition to the cases there adduced another may be cited when in 1177 a citizen of London who is qualified as “nobilissimus et ditissimus,” accused of robbery, was tried by the water ordeal, and on being found guilty offered Henry II. five hundred marks for a pardon. The dazzling bribe was refused, and he was duly hanged.—Gesta Henrici II. T. I. p. 156.
[1018] Regiam Majestatem Lib. IV. cap. iii. § 4.
[1019] Text. Herold. Tit. LXXVI.
[1020] Mazure et Hatoulet, Fors de Béarn, p. xxxi.
[1021] Conrad. Ursperg. sub. Lothar. Saxon.
[1022] Quidam illustris vir.—Othlon. de Mirac. quod nuper accidit etc. (Migne’s Patrol. T. CXL. p. 242).
[1023] Concil. Ausonens. ann. 1068 can. vii. (Aguirre, IV. 433).
[1024] Juris Feud. Alaman. cap. lxxvii. § 2.—Jur. Prov. Saxon. Lib. III. c. 21.