Note 9 — Chapter I · PENAL METHODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
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The exceptions to this wise though primitive rule are to be found where occasionally “God” and even “Nature” would be cited as injured third parties, upon theological grounds. See, for instance, N. Marshall, Penitential Discipline of the Primitive Church, pp. 49, 190, Oxford, 1844; and the thirteenth-century Mirror of Justice, chap. xiv.