And also _Cases in Parliament_, 1684–1737. _British Museum_, 515, l. 5 (39), _re_ Bambridge, etc. Footnote 174: Howard, p. 17. Footnote 175: _Tryal of Acton_, p. 5. Footnote 176: See Murray, _English Dictionary_, under “Bull,” iv. B. Footnote 177: See _Report of the Committee of 1729_, p. 9. _Brit. Mus. Cat._ 522, m. 9 (28). Footnote 178: There were seven trials for murder in 1730.—Du Cane, p. 36. Footnote 179: The old-time prisoners depended mainly upon their friends and upon outside charity for their sustenance (_vide_ Britton; Bracton, lib. iii., etc.). After the reign of Elizabeth they were supposed to receive 1_d._ or 2_d._ a day, or seven to eight ounces of bread. (Du Cane, p. 40.) From 1759, by 32 Geo. II. c. 28, each debtor was ordered to receive 2_s._ 4_d._ a week from his detaining creditor, but Howard found (p. 6) that, in practice, they could not get it, and numbers actually starved. Footnote 180: By an Act passed in 1784 (24 Geo. III. c. 54) the gaolers were to receive payment as compensation for the loss of their former profits made out of alcohol, which they were thereby forbidden to sell to prisoners from the year 1785. Footnote 181: Howard, p. 16. Footnote 182: _Report of the Committee of 1729_, p. 2. Footnote 183: Howard, p. 5. Footnote 184: Mayhew and Binny, “Criminal Prisons of London” (quoting from the _Fifth Annual Report of the Prison Discipline Society_), p. 97. London, 1862. Footnote 185: Du Cane, p. 43. Footnote 186: London prisons (_British Museum Catalogue_, 6056, b. 74), bound pamphlets, p. x. London, 1789. Footnote 187: Du Cane, p. 41, etc. Footnote 188: E. B. Tylor in _Ency. Brit._ ninth ed. art. “Ordeal.” Footnote 189: For account of the elaborate ritual, see W. Besant, _Mediæval London_, vol. ii. chap. vi. W. Dugdale, _Origines Juridiciales_, chap. xxix. Footnote 190: Stubbs, _Charters_, p. 71. Footnote 191: Besant, _Mediæval London_, ii. p. 193. Footnote 192: Thorpe, fol. ed. p. 517. Footnote 193: Glanville, J. Beames’ ed. p. 350, note. Footnote 194: Maitland, _Const. Hist._ p. 128. Footnote 195: Reeves, _Hist. Eng. Law_, i. p. 234. London, 1860. Footnote 196: Pike, _Hist. Crime_, p. 131. Footnote 197: Madox, _Hist. Exchequer_, i. p. 546. Footnote 198: _Ency. Brit._ art. “Ordeal,” p. 820, ninth ed. Footnote 199: E. A. Freeman, _History of the Reign of William Rufus_, i. pp. 156, 157. London, 1882. Footnote 200: P. Labbé, _Sacrorum Conciliorum_, tom. xxii. p. 1007. Venice, 1778. Footnote 201: Stubbs, _Charters_, p. 25. Footnote 202: Stubbs, _Const. Hist._ i. 314. Footnote 203: Unless he went to the ordeal, or, in a later period, to a jury. See W. Forsyth, _History of Trial by Jury_, p. 202. London, 1852. Twiss’s Bracton, ii. 403. Footnote 204: