Note 76 — LECTURE IV.
Reading edition
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 France, was the famous one between M. Jarnac and M. de la Chaistaignerie, A. D. 1547. Dr. Robertson’s Charles V. vol. 1. p. 298.