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