[22] "Three Metrical Romances" (Camden Socy.), xxvi., 33. See "Decretals
of Gregory," lib. ii., tit. 28, cap. 25, _qua fronte_; also "Lyndwood's
Provinciale," p. 278.
[23] "Bower's Scotichronicon," ii., 275. "Extracta e Cronicis," 150.
"Scalacronica," 144.
[24] "Robertson's Index," 5, 10, 12, 19, 20, 21.
[25] "Rolls of Parliament," ii., 335.
[26] "Rolls of Parliament," iii., 384.
[27] "Rolls of Parliament," iii., 459.
[28] "Chronicle of Adam of Usk," pp. 44, 45.
[29] "Justinian's Institutes," iv., 18. "Digest," xlviii., 4, 11. "Code,"
ix., 8.
[30] "Tacitus," xvi., 11.
[31] "Code," i., 5, 4.
[32] "Decretals of Gregory," v., 7, 10.
[33] "Decretals of Gregory," v., 39, 28. "Lea's Studies in Church
History," 264-66.
[34] "Haddan and Stubbs's Councils," i., 393. "Lea's Studies," 384, 425.
[35] "Lea's Chapters from the Religious History of Spain," 372, 492.
[36] "Cheruel's Dictionnaire," and "Denisart's Collection de Decisions,"
art. "Lesemajeste, memoire, suicide."
[37] For a curious English case of gibbetting a suicide in 1234, see
"Maitland's Bracton's Note Book," 1114: compare "Bracton," fo. 150.
[38] "La Loy de Beaumont" (Reims 1864), p. 241.
[39] "Acts of Parliament, Scotland," ii., 356.
[40] "Mackenzie's Criminal Law," i., 6, 21-2. "Hume's Law of Crimes," i.,
539. "Pitcairn's Criminal Trials," ii., 278. "Riddell's Scottish
Peerages," ii., 757-58.
[41] "Acts Parl. Scot.," ii., 356.
[42] But = without.
[43] "Acts Parl. Scot.," ii., 369.
[44] "Acts Parl. Scot.," ii., 415.
[45] Case of Earl of Huntly in 1562. Tytler's "Hist. of Scotland," iii.,
167.
[46] "Acts Parl. Scot.," i., 415.
[47] "Bain's Calendar of Border Papers," ii., 417.
[48] "Border Papers," ii., 711.
[49] "Pitcairn's Crim. Trials," ii., 233, 241.
[50] Pitcairn, ii., 167-8. "Acts Parl. Scot.," iv., 199.
[51] "Birrel," quoted in "Pitcairn," ii., 247.
[52] _Quhill_, until.
[53] For an example in 1603, that of Francis Mowbray, see "Pitcairn," ii.,
406-9.
[54] A full account of the trial is given in "Pitcairn," ii., 276-92.
[55] Lord Hailes quoted in "Pitcairn," ii., 277.
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