Category: History - British
Lectures on the constitution and laws of England With a commentary on Magna Charta, and illustrations of many of the English statutes
[76] Mr Barrington has remarked, that “the last trial by battle in England was in the time of Charles I. and that it did not end in the actual combat.” Observations on the Statutes, 3d edition, p. 202. The last instance which occurs of the judicial combat in the history of Fra...