As before, a person could also be brought to trial by the accusation of the person wronged by a felony ["appeal"]. If the accused still denied the charge after the accuser testified and the matter investigated by inquiries and interrogation and then analyzed, trial by combat was held, unless the accuser was over the age of sixty or maimed, in which case the accused went to the ordeal. The procedure of Henry II's assizes was extended from case to case as men lost faith in the older types of proof. The ordeal fell into disuse when the church prohibited blessing of ordeals in its Lateran Council of 1215. Henry introduced the petty or trial jury of 12 reputable men to provide a workable alternative to the ordeal, compurgation, and combat. These jurors were expected to know or to find out the facts that could lead to a decision. Gradually, witnesses had to be brought in to tesify to facts the jurors didn't know. Housebreaking, harboring outlaws, and interference with the royal perquisites of shipwreck and the beasts of the sea which were stranded on the coast [such as whales and sturgeon] were also punishable in the Royal Court. Trespass was a serious and forcible breach of the peace onto land that developed from the criminal law of felony. Trespass becomes a general term for almost all wrongful acts and defaults against a person, land, or chattels. It covered only direct damages due to physical contact. There are two main punishments: 1) amercement of a sum of money deetermined by at least two peers of the offender and 2) imprisonment in gaol redeemable by agreement to a fine after a couple of years in gaol. Another punishment was abjuration of a town or of the realm. In boroughs, an offending burgess may lose liberties or have to abjure their trade or craft. Pillory and tumbrel [e.g.ducking stool] was usual for bakers and alewives who broke the assizes of bread and beer, which was often. The Royal Court had grown substantially and was not always presided over by the King. To avoid court agents from having too much discretionary power, there was a systematic procedure for bringing cases to the Royal Court. First, a plaintiff had to apply to the King's Chancery for a standardized writ into which the cause had to fit. The plaintiff had to pay a fee and provide a surety that the plea was brought in good faith. The progress of the suit was controlled at crucial points by precisely formulated writs to the sheriff, instructing him for instance, to put the disputed property under royal protection pending a decision, to impanel an assize and have it view the property in advance of the justices' arrival, to ascertain a point of fact material to the plea, or to summon a 'warrantor' to support a claim by the defendant. The Royal Court kept a record on its cases on parchment kept rolled up: its "rolls". The oldest roll of 1194 is almost completely comprised of land cases.