[1261] Polyptichum Irminonis, App. No. 34 (Paris, 1836, p. 373).
[1262] Martene, De Antiq. Eccles. Ritibus Lib. III. cap. vii. Ordo 5.
[1263] Patetta, Le Ordalie, p. 192.
[1264] Hincmari Remens. Epist. XXII. (Migne’s Patrol. CXXVI. 136).
[1265] Quod si accusatus contendere voluerit de ipso perjurio stent ad crucem.... Hoc vero de minoribus rebus. De majoribus vero, aut de statu ingenuitatis, secundum legem custodiant.—Capit. Car. Mag. ann. 779, § 10. That this was respected as law in force, nearly a hundred years later, is shown by its being included in the collection of Capitularies by Benedict the Levite (Lib. V. cap. 196).
[1266] Ut omnes judicio Dei credant absque dubitatione.—Capit. Car. Mag. I. ann. 809, § 20.
[1267] Aimoini Chron. Continuat. Lib. V. c. 34.
[1268] Assisa facta apud Clarendune §§ 12, 13, 14 (Gesta Henrici II. T. II. p. clii.—M. R. Series). A case in accordance with this occurs in 1212 (Maitland, Pleas, I. 63).
[1269] Gesta Henrici II. T. I. p. 108.—Cf. Bracton. Lib. III. Tract, ii. cap. 16 § 3.
[1270] Simili modo, cauterium militis nullum tibi certum præbet argumentum, cum per examinationem ferri candentis occulto Dei judicio multos videamus nocentes liberatos, multos innocentes sæpe damnatos.—Ivon. Carnot. Epist. cccv.