Note 52 — Chapter V · Trial by Ordeal.
Reading edition
Litt. Hen. II., vol. iv, 279; I. Reeve’s History English Law, 457.
Instead of the judicium Dei, the success of the fifty men would look more like judicium clericus. Eadmer, Hist. Nov. 102; II. Pollock and Maitland History English Law, 599.