10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORDALIAN»
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Chronicles:England,Scotland(6vl): Chro.Eng.Scot.Etc 6v
Among other things also vsed in the time of the Saxons, it shall not be amisse to
set downe the forme of their Ordalian law, which they brought hither with them
from beyond the seas out of Scithia, and vsed onelie iu the triall of guiltie and ...
2
The Law-dictionary: Explaining the Rise, Progress, and ...
This ordalian, law was condemned by Pope Stephen the Sew eond, and
afterwards totally abolished here by parliament, as appears by Rot. Paten. de
anno 2 Hen. 3. membr. 5. Cowell. Vide Leg. Edw.. Confess. c. 9. Blackstone says,
Ordeal ...
Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Thomas Colpitts Granger, 1836
3
Dictionnaire françois-anglois et anglois-françois ... revue ...
ORDAINED(or-d^n'd '),part. adj.Ordonnc, command?1, prfscrit, ttabLi, &fc.
ORDAINER (or-d^n '-eur), j. [he who or- daina] Celui yui ordnnne. ORDALIAN (or-
d^'-ll-ane\ s. [instituting the ord«l fire or water]' D'ordalie, f. The ordalian law, La.
lot ...
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The Works Historical, Political and Miscellaneous (etc.) to ...
... lastly of too much familiarity with Alwin bishop of Winchester : that tsio approve
her innocence, praying over-night to St. Swithune, the offered to pass blindfold
between certain plowshares red-hot, according to the ordalian law, which without
...
5
The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset: ...
... o'er nine red-hot plough-shares ' laid at equal distanees. In either way, if the
defendant escaped unburnt, he was declared innocent ; but if burnt, guilty. The
ordalian law was totally abolished by an act of parliament in the time of Henry Ill.
John Collinson, Edmund Rack, 1791
6
The Student's Companion ... Second Edition, Corrected and ...
But this Ordalian Law was aboliflxed- here byParliament, Anno 3 Heir. 3. 7 - , . 27
nt) 7. ' 'si' _,_z.-'.T.slirial by Ordeal is a Kind of Purgationin the Car A . non Law.
And _ ouzr Saxon Ancestorsss thou ht it an _ _ Appeal to God for'thejiistice of' ...
... approve her innocence, praying overnight to St. Swithune, she offered to pass
blindfold between certain ploughshares redhot, according to the ordalian law,
which without harm she performed ; that the king thereupon received her to
honour, ...
John Milton, James Augustus St. John, 1853
8
A Chronicle of Cranborne: Being an Account of the Ancient ...
... three orders of officers to superintend the affairs of the Forests, whose duties
were somewhat analagous to those of verderers, regarders, and foresters as now
constituted. He abolished the Ordalian law,* excepting in extraordinary cases ...
Thomas William Wake Smart, 1841
9
The Works of John Milton: In Verse and Prose
... she offerd to pass blindfold between certain Plow-(hares red hot, according to
the Ordalian Law, which without harm she perform'd; that the King therupon
receav'd her to honour, and from her and the Bishop, penance for 95 Malms: 95
Sim.
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The Works: Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous. Now ...
... according_to_ the ordalian law,__which without' . harm_she performed 5 that
_the king thereugpn received her to honour, and from her and the bishop,
penance isior his credulity -, t at the archbishop ashamed of his accusation fled
out of ...
