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THE 
 HISTORY OF DUELLING:
INCLUDING,
NARRATIVES
OF THE MOST
REMARKABLE PERSONAL ENCOUNTERS
THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME.
BY
J. G. MILLINGEN, M.D. F.R.S.
AUTHOR OF “CURIOSITIES OF MEDICAL EXPERIENCE,” ETC.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
1841.
iiLONDON:
PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,
Bangor House, Shoe Lane.
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 CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
CHAPTER I.
DUELS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
Personal Combats introduced into England by the followers of William the Conqueror.—Modification of the barbarous practice of Trial by Battle.—The Law of England with regard to Duels.—Legal Opinions on the subject by the greatest AuthoritiesPage 1
 
Case of Morgan.—Case of Richard Taverner.—Early Challenges.—Combats prevented by Regal and Judicial Interference.—Challenge of the Duke of Brunswick by the Duke of Lancaster—and of the Duke of Norfolk by the Duke of Hereford5
 
Meeting between the Earl of Salisbury and the Bishop of Salisbury, for the right of the Castle of Old Sarum.—Desuetude of the Trial by Battle.—Instance of, in the reign of Elizabeth,—and in the Court of Chivalry in 1631.—Case of Thornton and Ashford, in 1818.—The barbarous and superstitious practice abolished6
 
ivDuels in the Reign of James the First.—Lord Bacon’s Speech in the Star-Chamber Court.—His determination to make no distinction between a Coronet and a Hatband in his efforts to repress the practice.—Instances of the ch                        
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