10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CORSNED»
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Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, with an ...
probably sprung from a presumptuous abuse of revelation in the ages of dark
superstition, was the corsned or morsel of execration : being a piece of cheese or
bread, of about an ounce in weight, which was consecrated with a form of ...
Sir William Blackstone, Joseph Chitty, Edward Christian, 1861
2
Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books by William ...
Another species of purgation, somewhat similar to the former, but probably
sprung from a presumptuous abuse of revelation in the ages of dark superstition,
was the trial by the corsned, or morsel of execration: being a piece of cheese or
bread ...
William Blackstone, Robert Kerr, 1873
3
Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference, to the ...
lation in the ages of dark superstition, was the corsned or morsel of execration:
being a piece of cheese or bread, of about an ounce in weight, which was
consecrated with a form of exorcism; desiring of the Almighty that it might cause ...
Sir William Blackstone, St. George Tucker, Edward Christian, 1803
4
Parallel Universal History: Being an Outline of the History ...
CHIEF DOMESTIC EVENTST/e Corsned. When earl Godwin Eucharist was
administered to the perwas accused of having been accessary to the death of the
king's brother, he appealed to his corsned, or morsel of execration, which,
according ...
Philip Alexander Prince, 1838
Tho trial by the hoty bread, known among the Anglo-Saxons as corsned, or "
accursed slice," was performed by thrusting a piece of bread or cheese into the
throat of the accused, who was considered guilty if he swallowed it with difficulty
or ...
Loon-Slatt chortled. Corsned looked round at the rude interruption. “What do you
do there,boy?”she growled. “Buh ... buh ... begging your pardon, ma'am,” Pere
stuttered,curtsying as if his very life depended on it. “That's Your Worship, boy!
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Commentaries on the laws of England
former, but probably spnmg from a presumptuous abuse of revelation in the ages
of dark superstition, was the corsned, or morsel of execration; being a piece of
cheese or bread, of about an ounce in weight, which was consecrated with a form
...
8
Commentaries on the laws of England. [Another]
Another species of purgation, somewhat similar to the former, but probably
sprung from a presumptuous abuse of revelation in the ages of dark superstition,
was the corsned or morsel of execration : being a piece of cheese or bread, of
about ...
William Blackstone (sir.), sir John Taylor Coleridge, 1825
...Another species of purgation was the corsned or morsel of execration : being a
piece of cheese or bread, of about an ounce in weight.... This corsned was given
to the suspected person, who at the same time also received the Holy ...
Gulian Crommelin Verplanck, William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, 1954
10
The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, Dictionary of Arts, ...
CORSNED, or Moasat of EXECRATION, a species of trial or purgation anciently
in use among us, and which probably arose from an abuse of revelation in the
dark ages of superstition. It consisted of a piece of cheese or bread, about an ...
