other damnable practices, practised on a Knight of the most Holy Order of the Temple of Zion, doth deny the same; and saith, that the testimony delivered against her this day is false, wicked, and disloyal; and that by lawful essoine[1] of her body, as being unable to combat in her own behalf, she doth offer, by a gentleman instead thereof, to avouch her case, he performing his loyal devoir in all knightly sort, with such arms as to gage of battle do fully appertain, and that at her peril and cost. And therewith she proffered her gage. And the gage having been delivered to the noble Lord and Knight, Brian de Bois-Guilbert of the Holy Order of the Temple of Zion, he was appointed to do this battle, in behalf of his Order and himself, as injured and impaired by the practices of the appellant. Wherefore the most reverend Father and puissant Lord, Lucas, Marquis of Beaumanoir, did allow of the said challenge, and of the said essoine of the appellant's
- ↑ Essoine signifies excuse, and here relates to the appellant's privilege of appearing by her champion, in excuse of her own person on account of her sex.
