Produced by deaurider, Wayne Hammond and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE HISTORY OF DUELLING: INCLUDING, NARRATIVES OF THE MOST REMARKABLE PERSONAL ENCOUNTERS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME. BY J. G. MILLINGEN, M.D. F.R.S. AUTHOR OF “CURIOSITIES OF MEDICAL EXPERIENCE,” ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. 1841. LONDON: PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY, Bangor House, Shoe Lane. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. Object of the Work.--Ancient Duels and Single Combats characterized.--Origin of Duelling.--Trials by Ordeal.--Treachery and ferocity of the days of Chivalry.--Light thrown by the History of Duelling on the Manners and Constitutions of Society at different periods.--Introduction into the British Isles.--Advantages to be derived from chronicling the hideous details Page 1 CHAPTER II. ON DUELLING AMONG THE ANCIENTS, AND IN OLDEN TIMES. The practice of Duelling unknown to the Ancients.--Personal conflicts of their Warriors.--Wrestlers in the Pancration.--Introduction of the Cæstus.--Female Pugilists.--Gladiators.--National conflicts.--Battle of the Thirty.--Onset between Bembrough and Beaumanoir.--Combat between Seven French and Seven English Knights.--Challenges between Sovereigns.--Francis the First and Charles the Fifth.--Edward the Third and Philip de Valois.--Christian the Fourth of Denmark and Charles the Ninth of Sweden.--Sully’s description of Duellists Page 9 Chapter III. THE ORIGIN OF DUELLING. Association of Brute Courage with Superstition.--Religion and Love.--Barbarous Courage of the Northern Nations.--Personal appeal to arms traced to their irruption in the Fifth Century.--Universal militarism.--Decision of Differences by brute force.--Establishment of Ordeals.--Judicial Combats.--Law of Gundebald, King of the Burgundians.--Mode of conducting these Judicial Combats.--A Burgundian Conflict described.--Lady Spectatresses.--Duel between Baron des Guerres and the Sieur de Faudilles.--Mode of conducting Ordeals and Judicial Combats.--The Weapons.--Form of Denial.--The Gage.--Duels by Proxy.--Bravoes, or Champions.--Trial by Hot Iron.--Trial by Hot and Cold Water.--Ordeal of the Cross.--Ordeal by Balance.--Ordeal by Poison.--Ordeal by Hot Oil.--Antiquity of the practice of Ordeals.--First Fire Ordeal.--Story of Simplicius Bishop of Autun.--Account of a Trial by Hot Water 21 CHAPTER IV. CELEBRATED JUDICIAL DUELS.