Chapter III: Appendix

A. De Actis Scindicorum Communitatis Sancti Julliani
agentium contra Animalia Bruta ad formam muscarum volantia
coloris viridis communi voce appellata Verpillions seu
Amblevins _p._ 259

B. Traite des Monitoires avec un Plaidoyer contre les
Insectes par Spectable Gaspard Bailly _p._ 287

C. Allegation, Replication, and Judgment in the process
against field-mice at Stelvio in 1519 _p._ 307

D. Admonition, Denunciation, and Citation of the Inger by
the Priest Bernhard Schmid in the name and by the authority
of the Bishop of Lausanne in 1478 _p._ 309

E. Decree of Augustus, Duke of Saxony and Elector,
commending the action of Parson Greysser in putting the
sparrows under ban, issued at Dresden in 1559 _p._ 311

F. Chronological List of Excommunications and Prosecutions
of Animals from the ninth to the nineteenth century _p._ 313

G. Receipt, dated January 9, 1386, in which the hangman of
Falaise acknowledges to have been paid by the Viscount of
Falaise ten sous and ten deniers tournois for the execution
of an infanticidal sow, and also ten sous tournois for a new
glove _p._ 335

H. Receipt, dated September 24, 1394, in which Jehan Micton
acknowledges that he received the sum of fifty sous tournois
from Thomas de Juvigney, Viscount of Mortaing, for having
hanged a pig, which had killed and murdered a child in the
parish of Roumaygne _p._ 336

I. Attestation of Symon de Baudemont, Lieutenant of the
Bailiff of Nantes and Meullant, made by order of the said
bailiff and the king’s proctor, on March 15, 1403, and
certifying to the expenses incurred in executing a sow that
had devoured a small child _p._ 338

J. Receipt, dated October 16, 1408, and signed by Toustain
Pincheon, jailer of the royal prisons in the town of Pont de
Larche, acknowledging the payment of nineteen sous and six
deniers tournois for food furnished to sundry men and to one
pig kept in the said prisons on charge of crime _p._ 340

K. Letters Patent, by which Philip the Bold, Duke of
Burgundy, on September 12, 1379, granted the petition of the
Friar Humbert de Poutiers, Prior of the town of
Saint-Marcel-lez-Jussey, and pardoned two herds of swine,
which had been condemned to suffer the extreme penalty of
the law as accomplices in an infanticide committed by three
sows _p._ 342

L. Sentence pronounced by the Mayor of Loens de Chartres on
the 12th of September, 1606, condemning Guillaume Guyart to
be hanged and burned together with a bitch _p._ 344

M. Sentence pronounced by the Judge of Savigny in January,
1457, condemning to death an infanticidal sow. Also the
sentence of confiscation pronounced nearly a month later on
the six pigs of the said sow for complicity in her crime _p._ 346

N. Sentence pronounced, April 18, 1499, in a criminal
prosecution instituted before the Bailiff of the Abbey of
Josaphat, in the Commune of Sèves, near Chartres, against a
pig condemned to be hanged for having killed an infant. In
this case the owners of the pig were fined eighteen francs
for negligence, because the child was their fosterling _p._ 352

O. Sentence pronounced, June 14, 1494, by the Grand Mayor of
the church and monastery of St. Martin de Laon, condemning a
pig to be hanged and strangled for infanticide committed on
the fee-farm of Clermont-lez-Montcornet _p._ 354

P. Sentence pronounced, March 27, 1567, by the Royal Notary
and Proctor of the Bailiwick and Bench of the Court of
Judicatory of Senlis, condemning a sow with a black snout to
be hanged for her cruelty and ferocity in murdering a girl
of four months, and forbidding the inhabitants of the said
seignioralty to let such beasts run at large on penalty of
an arbitrary fine _p._ 356

Q. Sentence of death pronounced upon a bull, May 16, 1499,
by the Bailiff of the Abbey of Beaupré, for furiously
killing Lucas Dupont, a young man of fourteen or fifteen
years of age _p._ 358

R. Scene from Racine’s comedy _Les Plaideurs_, in which a
dog is tried and condemned to the galleys for stealing a
capon _p._ 360

S. Record of the decision of the Law Faculty of the
University of Leipsic condemning a cow to death for having
killed a woman at Machern near Leipsic, July 20, 1621 _p._ 361

BIBLIOGRAPHY _p._ 362

INDEX _p._ 373

THE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT OF ANIMALS