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They were obliged to render these replies in prison, unassisted by any advocates, on penalty of being condemned 'in contumaciam'. The questions, awkwardly drawn up as they seemed, were yet tortuously and cunningly arranged with a view of entrapping the prisoners into self-contradiction.
"Why, that was very hard a great reprobate, I fear." "No; a wild young man who has lately deserted his Alma Mater." "A heinous offence! I advise you to proceed against him for holding out in contumaciam." "Ah!" said the Doctor, "we must follow the old receipt for cooking a hare in the present instance. We must first catch the offender." And the good Doctor smiled.
Archibald paid not the slightest regard to the summons or to the sentence pronounced against him in contumaciam. The law could not enforce its judgment, and six years later in 1397 he died. The King refused to recognise his son Archibald VI. as Count of Perigord, but Archibald disregarded the refusal, and openly sided with the English.
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