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Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… and brought up in the rigid severity of the old Faith, an ordeal such as this would have proved comparatively harmless. …
Final Concords of the County of Lincoln
… was imported into England after the Conquest. 2 Like the ordeal by fire or by water, it belonged to the time when men …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… outfangetheof, return of writs, judgment of duels, trial ordeal by fire or water, goods of felons and fugitives, a …
Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean & Chapter of Wells
… throughout their lands toll and theam, infangenthif, with ordeal of water and the, gallows ( furtis) and iron; that …
Survey of London
… of the law. At the age of thirty he was faced with an ordeal which might have had a tragic ending. The Cowpers were …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… on farms over 25 a. 42 A ten-year depression, a 'frightful ordeal', lasted until the mid 1850s. 43 The result seems to …
A History of the County of Stafford
… for the prisoners and expenses attending judgement by ordeal. T.N.S.F.C. lxx. 7475. Cal. Lib. 122640, 388. Ibid. …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… hundred, that proved it,) to try the right of it by trial ordeal, or by combat, and Ribald held it under Earl Alan. 6 …
Magna Britannia
… till at length, having reluctantly submitted to a second ordeal, it was conducted with so much care and skill, that …
A History of the County of Surrey
… (c. 1190), and have happily passed unscathed through the ordeal of restoration. Like the rest of the original …