Note 528 — Chapter XIV · THE STAKE.
Reading edition
Fortescue de Laudibus Legum Angliæ cap. xxii.—As late as 1823 there is a case in which a court in Martinique condemned a man to the galleys for life for “vehement suspicion” of being a sorcerer (Isambert. Anc. Loix Françaises, XI. 253).