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A History of the County of Middlesex
… The preparations made at the Charterhouse for the day of ordeal, and the scenes in chapter-house and church described …
A History of the County of Cumberland
… Report on the Dignity of a Peer (Index Summonitionum). The ordeal by hot or cold water or hot iron was condemned by the …
A History of the County of Essex
… C/ME 25, p. 140; C/ME 27, p. 172; C/ME 30, pp. 228, 3778. Ordeal in Romford, 257. E.R.O., C/ME 49, p. 761; C/ME 50, p. …
A History of the County of Essex
… are based on inf. from Havering Libraries. G. Richards, Ordeal in Romford, passim. London Government Act, 1963, c. …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… fortnight. In doubtful cases they tried offenders by the ordeal, which was by combat, red-hot-iron, hot water, and …
Old and New London
… Bartholomew FairA Seven Days' TournamentDuels and Trial by Ordeal in SmithfieldTerrible Instances of the Odium … chosen as the scene of medival duels, and of the ordeal by battle. The combat, in the reign of Henry VI., … will be remembered by all readers of Shakespeare. The ordeal was, perhaps, hardly fairly tried in this case, as the …
A History of the County of Hertford
… was in a very unsafe state. It has emerged from the ordeal with the loss of many of its ancient features, but is …
A History of the County of Somerset
… have to make oath ( facturi sacramentum) or undergo the ordeal ( judicium portaturi) come to Tantone. When the lords … lands, if they are going to be sworn or to undergo the ordeal, shall do (so) in Tantona.' There are three places of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… said mayor and community or their officers by any fine or ordeal ( jewysam) in any manner, other than that to which the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… suffered later in the war. 24 Nevertheless Coventry's ordeal of 1415 November 1940 earns the city a special if …