Note 72 — Chapter VII · Wager of Law.
Reading edition
Goldsborough, 51, pl. 13; Doctor and Student, ii, c. 24; Thayer’s “Older Modes of Trial,” II. Anglo-American Legal History, p. 388.
In the persecution of the reformers, in 1527, under Henry VIII., Margaret Cowbridge and Margery Bowgas were allowed to acquit themselves by the oaths of compurgators, although there were several witnesses against them, and the compurgators comprised several women in the test.