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he shouted;
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The spectators so lustily roared their approval, that the Earl heard it in his castle, and he, after due enquiry, granted that in time coming twenty-four jurors of Leicester should determine all civic disputes. One strange product of Trial by Combat was the Approver: a rascal who turned king's evidence, and fought with his late companions. Sometimes he accused other malefactors, and if he came off victor in five combats he was released, and banished the country. This system fell into gross abuse, for the Approver, greedy of freedom or hush-money, appealed honest men right and left. In the chronicle of William Gregory the Skinner (1456) we have an account of a duel fought by one Thomas Whitehorne, a criminal, caught in the New Forest, and lodged in prison at Winchester, where he remained for about three years, fighting ever and anon.
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And that fals and untrewe peler (= Appelar) hadde of the Kynge every day 1d. ob. At last a proposed victim retorted the lie in his throat, and said that
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Then the judge
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that
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Also each must have a stave of green ash, three feet long, the point thereof
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and if these ash-plants broke, then they
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Moreover, they must strive fasting on the
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but
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Huyt ys to schamfulle to reherse alle the condycyons of thys foule conflycte.
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and therewith the
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The peler, with brazen insolence, offered _his_ character for inspection. There was much dubiety as to where and how he had lived when at large, but
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Hange uppe Thome Whythorne was the response of every reference he tendered. At last the day came. The Appellee, as became an innocent man, told his beads, and prayed long and earnestly, and wept full sore, and all present prayed for and with him. The
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scoffed thereat.
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Thou fals trayter, yelled he;
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The defendant's sole answer was so lusty a thwack that his staff flew all to pieces. Thereupon the peler's stave was taken away from _him_;
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so using teeth and fist,
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It fared ill at first with the
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His opponent had him down on the ground, and near choked the life out of him. But presently the meek one got up on his knees, and (the combat not being under Queensberry rules),
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The peler's subsequent record is of the briefest, but, one is thankful to add, of the most edifying description.
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And thenn he was confessyd and hanggyd, of whose soule God ha' marcy. Amen.
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so for epitaph wrote the official scribe against his name. And the exchequer parchments knew him and his