Of the many ties between literature and law, one, not by any means the least interesting on the list, is the quantity of legal citations, phrases, metaphors and analogies which got swept into the wide nets of the poets. Amongst such scraps there are few so successful and still fewer so pathetic as one in which a metrical historian, drawing near the close, both of his days and his chronicle, figured himself as summoned on short _induciæ_ at the instance of Old Age to appear at a court to answer serious charges, where no help was for him save through grace and the Virgin as his advocate. Elde me maistreis wyth hir brevis, _elde, age_ Ilke day me sare aggrevis, _brevis, writ_ Scho has me maid monitioune _ilke, each_ To se for a conclusioune _quhilk, which_ The quhilk behovis to be of det; _of det, of right_ Quhat term of tyme of that be set I can wyt it be na way, _wyt, know_ Bot weill I wate on schort delay At a court I mon appeire Fell accusationis thare til here Quhare na help thare is bot grace. _bot, without_ The maikless Madyn mon purchace _maikless, matchless_ That help; and to sauff my state _purchace, procure_ I haiff maid hir my advocate. _sauff, save_ Androw of Wyntoun's verse it must be owned was verse on the plane of a notary public, and oft the common form of legal writ supplied sorrily enough the deficiencies of his imagination. But here for once the simple dignity of the thought bore him up and carried him through. Index. Aberdeen, gipsies at, 175 Abjuring the realm, 15 Abjuration, 69 Abolishing right of Sanctuary, 16 Adultery, penalty of, 11 Africa, ordeal in, 24-25 Amphitheatre, sports of, 112 An eye for an eye, 137 Ancient tenures, 93-108 Andrews, William, Cock-Fighting, 196-200 Anglo-Saxon Church, 14 Aram, Eugene, 212 Ashford, Mary, 40-41 Asyla in Greece, 14 Axon, W. E. A., Sanctuaries, 13-22; Laws relating to the Gipsies, 165-178 Babylonia, law of, 3-4 Balance, ordeal of, 27 Barbarous Punishments, 132-148 Barnard's Inn, 263 Beetles, trial of, 157 Begbie, William, murder of, 210 Beverley, Sanctuary at, 19-20 Bible Law, 1-12 Bible, ordeal of the, 37 Bible, weighing against, 27 Bier, ordeal of, 36 Bird, Robert, Cockieleerie Law, 200-204 Biretta, 53 Black Book of Hereford, 101 Black Parliament, 225 Blood, laws written in, 135; stains, 222 Boiling to death, 135 Book of Common Prayer, abolished, 194 Borough English, 104-106 Breaking straws, 48; rods, 49 Buccleuch, Barons of, 107 Bull relating to English Sanctuaries, 15 Bull, trial of, 150 Burned alive, 134 Burgess, S., Bible Law, 1-12 Canning, Elizabeth, 172-173 Canon Law, 187, 225 Castles, a centre of power, 74 Cattle stealing, 74