[756]. Madox, I. 505, has collected instances.
[757]. Cf. Pollock and Maitland, II. 585-7, and Thayer, Evidence, 68.
[758]. It was extended in another direction also: some of the feudal courts adopted a similar procedure in false appeals (although the king objected to their doing so without royal licence). Inquests were held shortly after the abolition of ordeal (1215) in the court of the Abbot of St. Edmund. See Bracton’s Note Book, case 592.
[759]. See Pollock and Maitland, II. 586.
[760]. 59 George III. c. 46.
[761]. The early history of habeas corpus is traced by Prof. Jenks in a learned and interesting article in the Law Quarterly Review, VIII. 164. The writ de odio was obsolete at a date prior to the invention of the habeas corpus.
[762]. Cf. Brunner, Entstehung der Schwurgerichte[Entstehung der Schwurgerichte], p. 471.
[763]. See folio, 123.
[764]. See Pipe Roll, 8 John, cited Madox, I. 566.
[765]. See Rot. Pat., I. 76, cited Madox, I. 494. The date is 8 November, 1207.