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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. I.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
1841.
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LONDON:
PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,
Bangor House, Shoe Lane.
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CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.
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CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS.
Object of the Work.—Ancient Duels and Single Combats    characterized.—Origin of Duelling.—Trials by Ordeal.—Treachery    and ferocity of the days of Chivalry.—Light thrown by    the History of Duelling on the Manners and Constitutions    of Society at different periods.—Introduction into the British    Isles.—Advantages to be derived from chronicling the hideous    detailsPage 1
CHAPTER II.
ON DUELLING AMONG THE ANCIENTS, AND IN OLDEN TIMES.
The practice of Duelling unknown to the Ancients.—Personal    conflicts of their Warriors.—Wrestlers in the Pancration.—Introduction    of the Cæstus.—Female Pugilists.—Gladiators.—National    conflicts.—Battle of the Thirty.—Onset between    Bembrough and Beaumanoir.—Combat between Seven French    and Seven English Knights.—Challenges between Sovereigns.—Francis    the First and Charles the Fifth.—Edward the Third    iv    and Philip de Valois.—Christian the Fourth of Denmark and    Charles the Ninth of Sweden.—Sully’s description of Duellists9
CHAPTER III.
THE ORIGIN OF DUELLING.
Association of Brute Courage with Superstition.—Religion    and Love.—Barbarous Courage of the Northern Nations.—Personal    appeal to arms traced to their irruption in the Fifth    Century.—Universal militarism.—Decision of Differences by    brute force.—Establishment of Ordeals.—Judicial Combats.—Law    of Gundebald, King of the Burgundians.—Mode of conducting    these Judicial Combats.—A Burgundian Conflict described.—Lady    Spectatresses.—Duel between Baron des    Guerres and the Sieur de Faudilles.—Mode of conducting Ordeals    and Judicial Combats.—The Weapons.—Form of Denial.—The    Gage.—Duels by Proxy.—Bravoes, or Champions.—Trial    by Hot Iron.—Trial by Hot and Cold Water.—Ordeal    of the Cross.—Ordeal by Balance.—Ordeal by Poison.—Ordeal    by Hot Oil.—Antiquity of the practice of Ordeals.—First Fire    Ordeal.—Story of Simplicius Bishop of Autun.—Account of a    Trial by Hot Water21