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

by Henry Charles Lea

[1104] Dithmari Chron. Lib. II.

[1105] Hist. Archiep. Bremens. ann. 1051.—Lambert. Hersfeld. ann. 1050.—Hartzheim. Concil. German. III. 112.

[1106] Regino ann. 869.—Annal. Bertiniani.

[1107] Helgaldi Epitome Vitæ Roberti Regis.

[1108] Duclos, Mémoire sur les Épreuves.

[1109] Lambert. Hersfeld. ann. 1077.

[1110] This anecdote rests on good authority. Peter Damiani states that he had it from Hildebrand himself (Opusc. XIX. cap. vi.), and Calixtus II. was in the habit of relating it (Pauli Bernried. Vit. Greg. VII. No. 11).

[1111] Bernald. Constant. Chron. ann. 1077.

[1112] Hugon. Flaviniac. Chron. Lib. II. ann. 1080.—Lambert. Hersfeld. ann. 1076.

[1113] Ciruelo, Reprovacion de las Supersticiones, P. II. cap. vii. Barcelona, 1628. The first edition appeared in 1539 at Salamanca.