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A History of the County of Surrey
… tithes and offerings; so they are failing in this ordeal. Beneath the bridge a usurer is seen seated in the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… who escaped the death sentence only to undergo a worse ordeal. For his sentence of perpetual imprisonment in the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of suit of shire and hundred and with a gallows and an ordeal pit, and then and thereafter Great Wishford was …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… Gill, Waitgate Gill, Rake Gill. Possibly the scene of the ordeal of John Franceys (who is also called Frankish). It is …
A History of the County of Hertford
… grithbriche, bloodwite, murder, forestall, flemaniswite, ordeal and orest. 224 They and their men were quit of scot, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… formerly used for trials by combat and including an ordeal pit succeeded by gallows, had been taken from the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… 113 These privileges, with gallows and pillory and ordeal by fire and water, were claimed by Fulk Fitz Warin in …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… gratitude to St. Swithun for his aid during her trial by ordeal (Wharton, Anglia Sacra. i, 235). Cott. Chart. x, 11, …
A History of the County of Hertford
… flemenesfrith, grithbriche, forstal, hamsokene, blodwyte, ordeal and oreste, view of frankpledge and return of writs, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Oldfield, 'that it is become more immaculate, from the ordeal it has passed'. 231 After the last contested election …