21. In politics, it is a tradition among reporters to subject a candidate on occasion to trial by ordeal . 22. It was these that provided the gravest difficulties with jury trials following the abolition of trial by ordeal . 23. Then, Amy's trial by ordeal began. 24. The act, a forerunner to trial by jury, started the abolition of trial by combat and trial by ordeal . 25. The English plea rolls contain no cases of trial by ordeal after 1219, when Henry III recognized its abolition. 26. The only trial by ordeal mentioned ( twice ) in the Lex Frisionum is the ordeal by boiling water. 27. Trial by ordeal is prohibited by the court, but it is still practiced commonly in modern times to adjudge cases.28. The church also became a burial site for many of the archbishops, and later was used for trials by ordeal . 29. As a Ordeal of Bitter Water, a form of trial by ordeal , but one that took a miracle to convict. 30. With trial by ordeal banned, establishing guilt would have been problematic had England not had forty years of judicial experience.
