Benefit of clergy, Biblical foundation for, 228. Benefit of clergy, condition contributing to, 225. Benefit of clergy, none, in desertion, 234. Benefit of clergy, did not extend to treason, 228. Benefit of clergy, nuns entitled to, 228, 229. Benefit of clergy, “clergyable” and “unclergyable crimes,” 233. Benefit of clergy, burning in hand, in, 231. Benefit of clergy, practice in reading, in, 230. Benefit of clergy, in Bracton’s time, 229. Benefit of clergy, case of Ben Jonson, 238, 239. Benefit of clergy, under Henry II., 226. Benefit of clergy, under Edward III., 229. Benefit of clergy, under Edward IV., 230. Benefit of clergy, under Henry VI., 231. Benefit of clergy, under Henry VII., 231. Benefit of clergy, under Henry VIII., 234, 235. Benefit of clergy, abolished, in England, in 1825, 236. Benefit of clergy, claimed in United States, 239, 241. Benefit of clergy, abolished in U. S. in 1790, 236. Bentham, Jeremy, will of, 324. Berkeley, marriage of Lord Thomas, 28. Betrothals, in Anglo-Saxon days, 36. Betrothal-rings, 34. Biblical theory of marriage, 14. Bier, ordeal of, 143, 145. Bilboes, punishment, by, 303. Blinding, punishment, by, 295. Boaz, his espousal of Ruth, 36. Boiling in oil, punishment by, 285. Bracton, does not refer to ordeals, 157. Bracton, benefit of clergy, in time of, 229. Bracton, description of law wager, by, 201, 202. Bracton, standing mute, during time, of, 179. Branding, punishment, by, 297. Brank, punishment, by, 305. Brazil, marriages of infants in, 29. Burgundian code, on trial by battle, 111. Burning in hand, in benefit of clergy, 231. Burning, punishment by, 276. Burnworth, case of, in 1726, 186. Burr, Aaron, trial of, 100. Burn’s idea of the devil, 69. Burying alive, punishment by, 282. C Caesar, Augustus used the recall, 88. Caesar’s reference to marriage-settlements among Gauls, 32. Calverly, case of Walter, in 1605, 184. Cambyses, recall of Sisamnes (note), 78. Canute, ordeals under, 152. Capture, marriage by, 13. Cardunville, William’s case, 22. Cathay, marriages in (note), 13. Catholic marriage forms, 34. Cato, loaning of wife by, 27. Ceylon, polyandry in, 16. Chancery, jurisdiction of, 90. Charitable wills, 323. Charlemagne, law of, against witchcraft, 50. Charlemagne, edict, of, on trials by ordeal, 147, 148. Charles le-Gros, accusation and trial of his wife, 159. Chatelet, of Paris, punishments, at, 289, 292. Child marriages, 29. Child of concubine, property right of, 18. Chinese marriage customs, 12. Chivalry, influence of, on battle, 112, 113. Church and witchcraft, in early times, 49. Churchmen, trials of, by wager of law, 210. Church’s influence on trials by ordeal, 168, 169. Cimon, recall of, 83. Circassians, capture-marriages among (note), 13. Clarendon, assize of, 154.