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The Lord Chancellor added in a postscript that if Hardquanonne refused to answer he should be subjected to the peine forte et dure, until the period called the frodmortell, according to the statute of King Athelstane, which orders the confrontation to take place on the fourth day.
"The wisdom of the law," continued the sheriff, "has chosen this last hour to hold what our ancestors called 'judgment by mortal cold, seeing that it is the moment when men are believed on their yes or their no." The serjeant on the right confirmed his words. "Judicium pro frodmortell, quod homines credendi sint per suum ya et per suum no.
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