Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 29 CHAPTER III. FORMS AND PROCEEDINGS. According to Andrew Home, a lawyer, who wrote the " Mirror of Justice " in the reigns of the first Edwards, the temporary sanctuary was privileged as presently mentioned. :— First.—Sanctuary When Not Allowed.—If any fly to sanctuary, and there demand protection, we are to distinguish : for if he be a common thief, robber, murderer, or night walker, and be known for such, and discovered by the people, and of his pledges; or if anyone be convicted for debt or other offence, upon hi? own confession, and hath never abjured the realm, or hath been exiled, banished, outlawed, or waived, or if anyone have offended in sanctuary or joined upon this hope to be defended in sanctuary, they may take him out thence, without any prejudice to the franchise of sanctuary. Secondly.—Sanctuary" When Allowed.—But in the right of offenders -who, by mischance, fall into an offence, mortal out of sanctuary, and for true repentance run to monasteries, and commonly confess themselves sorrowful and repent, King Henry 2, at Clarendon, granted unto them, that they should be defended by the Church forthe space of 40 days, and ordained that the town should defend such flyers for the whole 40 days, and send, them to the Coroner at the Coroner's view. Printed in London, 1642. Translated from the French by W. H., 1646. 'election.—It is in the election of the offender to yield to the law, or to acknowledge his offence to the Coroner and to the people, and to waive the law. And if he yield himself to be tried by law, he is to be sent to the gaol, and to wait for either acquittal or condemnation. And if he confess a mortal offence, and desire to depart the realm without desiring the tuition of the Church, he is to go from the end of the sanctuary ungirt in ...