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Staffordshire Historical Collections
… change had now taken place in criminal procedure; the ordeal had been abolished, and the guilt or innocence of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the deliverance of his mother, Queen Emma, from the fiery ordeal through which she had passed, in vindication of her …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Vatican Archives
… But such was the fortitude of the servant that, when the ordeal was over, Burghley told him that he had not confessed …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1028). Thus Bulkeley and Stoughton, after a very trying ordeal, at last obtained their release. New Hampshire …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… lions, in the company of his antagonist; or (a much safer ordeal) by touching for the evil. The Bishop also asked for …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… remained as yet untainted. It was, however, a dangerous ordeal to which the men of this sixteenth century were …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… amount of population, would at this day pass a similar ordeal with equal credit. But, however this may be, it is …