Slavery, discharge from, 45 Slaves, ill treatment of, 8, 10; under the Saxons, 60 Slaying gipsies, 175-176 Sods offered at the altar, 48 Spindle on the altar, 51 Staff and baton, 50 Staples Inn, 262 Star Chamber, 124-125 Strangulation, punishment by, 136 Straws, breaking, 48 Stocks, 67 Switzerland, trials of animals in, 154 Symond's Inn, 265 Thornton, Abraham, 40-41 Towns amerced, 70 Traitors, exempted from the Sanctuary, 15 Treason, trials for, 233 Trial by Jury in old times, 122-131 Trials of Animals, 149-160 Trials in superstitious ages, 22-42 Tynwald Day, 247 Usury, law of, 9 Villeinage, 86 Violating the sanctuary, 14, 21 Wager of Battel, 37, 41 Walters, Cuming, Law under the Feudal system, 58-82; Island Laws, 237-257 Wand, 49 Welcoming gipsies to England, 168 Westminster, sanctuary of, 20 Whipping, 61; Post, 67 William I., Forest Laws of, 118; Burial of, 225 William the Red, Forest laws of, 119 Witchcraft, 144-45 Wollen Industry, protection of, 144 Women, free bench of, 93 Working of the sanctuary system, 16, 17 FOOTNOTES: [1] This and other documents have been collected by Mr. T. J. de' Massinghi, whose monagraph on "Sanctuaries" (Stafford, 1888) is the chief source of information on the subject. [2] See Andrews' "Old Church Lore," 1891, and the authorities there cited. [3] The material facts in this paper up to this point are derived from _Thevenin's Textes relatifs aux Institutions privées_ and _Du Cange art. investitura_. [4] Williams' "Real Property Law." [5] Williams' "Real Property Law." [6] Southey's Common Place Book, 4th Series, 1851, p. 175. [7] Chapter x., verses 8 and 9. [8] Ecl. II., line 62. [9] Constitutional History of England, I. Ed., Vol. I., p. 289. [10] The Lord Chief Justice, John Popham, who was born in 1531, is said to have been stolen when a child by the gipsies. They disfigured him and placed on his arm a cabalistic mark. Apparently it was a case of tattooing. But the story is discredited. [11] _Gaújo_ is the name given by the gipsies to all strangers who are not of the Romany race. [12] _Edition_ 1857, vol. i., p. 77. [13] Peacock. _Army Lists of Roundheads and Cavaliers_, 2nd edit., 1874, p. 21. [14] Wood, _Athenae Oxon_, sub nom. [15] John Loden Gollpried's _Kronyck_, vol. iv., p. 454. Van der Aa, _Biographisch Woordenboek_, sub voce. [16] Carlyle, _Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell_, vol. i., p. 50. [17] Henry Scobell, _Acts and Ordinances_, 1645, chapter 57. [18] "Michelet's History of France," viii., ch. 1. "Cheruel's Dictionnaire des Institutions," art. "Cadavre." [19] "Pollock and Maitland's History of English Law," ii., 60. Bracton 51b, 262. [20] "Lea's Superstition and Force" (ed. 1892), 359-70. [21] "Roman de Rou," ii., 9320-40.