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Note that these TMAter,that is to kax,either hot o? coldrand tn this tri-The eon? aI,t & e part? thought culpable toas either tumble!) intoc,u°k,an6eii(i some Kond 0? huge dessel ok colO water, wherein il hecontinue until coutinued ko? a season without bristling o? struglingthe time os k. so? like, He was forthwith acquitted as guiltlesse-ok the.^ en fast Whereof he was accused r but ifhe began to plungethem, split- and labour once so? dreatv, immediate!? upon his sal-dorckwhHo- ling into that liquor, he was d? and bv condemned asUnshed , & guilt? of the crime. D? elte he did thrust hjs arm up toSuftHnien- the lhoulder into a LeadzGopper, v; Caldron of feeth"tum Croni > ittg water, from whence^if he withdrew the sanie witv-corum do out an? manner ofdamage, he was discharged ok far*

witncffe. ther molestation: otherwise he was taken fo? a tretpak-so?, and puniched according!?. Lhe Fier? manner okpurgation belonged onl? to noble men and women,andsuch as were ires bo?n: but the husbandmen and dil-lains were tried bp water. ,Lhep?a?er§, ceremonies,hoi? destine, masses, and all things that were ukkdinthe execution thereok, ?on max foe at large in Hoien-Thiskind cf Wed his description ok Britain, fo.98,99, & 100.trial was for This Canutus was Ling of England in the peat of ourCtiminal mat- !Lo?i5 Ioi8.and Will. the Cor.quero? was Ling Cf Eng-tersjdn the Sax- i an d in the pear os our JlCl 067 .which is dx computa-Tdi s m ticu '"st 49* ?ears before the Conquest, that these lawsmuch 85 capers were made: which am is now in this pear ok our Lo dcriminis, the 1615. just 597. MtS fftlCS theMiLKing Of those laws Ofdef.being ar- LlNg Canutus, which j$ her? aNtiLNt : and ?kt it dothraigned must sSM,thdt Fo?estS themkeldeS TXi MUth Mv?b antwntertv aud out him. then those laws are. For it doth appear that Forestsfeifcn Godand were long before LHM Hls time,as the scripture doththe Loumr^ testiste imthe second vwk of Lings, cap. 19. ver. 2Z* in*hich is by Ju- these Words: .1 wiU go in mt he lodgings of his borders,ry,or upon God anc j j nCO the Forest of his Carmel: auD as hereafter inwaSied/S hisp?sper place is more full? chewed.

dum Ver, and ifhe was a freeman, then per ignem if of. servile condition, then per quant,and that in diver, vuys.Vid.Co.g.Rep.li. Lambert zerbo Ordalium. This kind of trialwas ousted by Act of Pixl.Rot pit.i.H.iMetnbHM.y. The