Knight, service of, 96 Lanercost, the chronicle of, 272 Law under the Feudal System, 58-82 Law and Medicine abused, 269-270 Laws of the Forest, 109-121 Laws relating to the Gipsies, 165-178 Left-handed murder, 214 Letters of IV. Forms, 163 Lesemajesty, crimes of, 229-231 Lincoln's Inn, 266 Lipski, 213 Literature and Law, 275 Little Inns of Court, 258-266 Lords, power of, 58 Lord Chief Justice Popham, stolen by gipsies, 170 Loss of right hand, 138 Lyon's Inn, 259 Macdonald, James C., Devices of the Sixteenth Century Debtors, 161-164 Magna Charta, 63, 98 Manchester, Sanctuary at, 15, 16, 17 Manor and Manor Law, 83-94 Manor, origin of, 88 Marriage in feudal times, 59 Marriage laws, altering, 195 Marrying to atone for violence, 64 Martin, Maria, 214 Middle Ages, ordeals of, 29 Military service, 59 Military punishments, 136 Money raised by marriage, 72 Mortal Combat, 37-41 Mosaic law, 3 Mutilation, a favourite mode of punishment, 141-144 Muswell Hill murder, 213 Neilson, George, on Symbols, 43-57; Post Mortem Trials, 224-236; Obiter, 267-276 New Inn, 259 New way of paying old debts, 163 Nimrod, 111 Norman forest laws, 117 Oath, refusal to bear witness of, 8; of fealty, 60 On Symbols, 43-57 Oppression of gipsies under Queen Elizabeth, 171 Ordeals, 24-42 Palace regulations, 138-140 Parricide, punishment for, 137 Paul's Cross, preaching at, 194 Peacock, Edward, Laws of the Forest, 109-121; Commonwealth Law and Lawyers, 179-196 Peine forte et dure, 145-148 Penal Code, English, 145 Penn and Mead, trial of, 125 Persecution of gipsies, 171 Plantations, gipsies sent to, 178 Plays acted by gipsies, 176 Pigs, trial of, 150, 151, 152, 153, 157 Pillory, 142, 144 Poison, 135, 138 Poison, ordeal, 28 Poisoning, punishment for, 135 Poor laws, 9 Post-Mortem Trials, 224-236 Prejudice against gipsies, 172 Protecting the church in war time, 102-103 Proverb, oldest, 111 Punishments under Saxons, 61 Quakers, trial of, 125-131 Rann, Ernest H., trials in superstitious ages, 22-42; Fatal Links, 205-223 Reasoning power, 267 Rebel Heads on City gates, 134 Refuge, cities of, 14 Regicides, 134 Robbing travellers in feudal times, 73-74 Robert de Belesone, cruel acts of, 65 Robert the Bruce, Conspiracy, 225 Rod in Scotland, 49 Roman Empire in its glory, 114 Rose Tenures, 102 Ruskin, Jno., on Coeur de Lion, 72 Sacrifice, laws relating to, 5-7 Sacrilege, 8 Sanctuaries, 13-22 Scilly Islands, laws of the, 239 Scoggan, Queen's jester, 163-164 Scotch Islands, laws of the, 239-242 Scotland, sanctuaries of, 21-22 Scott, John, of Edinburgh, 161-163 Scutage, 98 Self-slaughter, 229 Ship-money tax, 181 Shaving the head for theft, 69 Siamese, ordeals of the, 26 Silver spear, 55