L'histoire des âges moyens; une histoire élémentaire pour les sixième et septième années . heft;c'est-à-dire, nous devrions examiner les témoins, et essayer de faire ressortir tous les faits dans la facilité. C'était aussi la Romanway de faire des choses, mais ce n'était pas la manière allemande. Les Allemands avaient plusieurs façons d'essayer des cas, dont le thème était curieux de l'ordeal. S'ils l'utilisaient, ils pourraient forcer l'homme qui était^ordeals accuccl à pluugc sa main dans un pot d'eau bouillante et ramasser un petit objet du fond. Puis la main de la mans s'est enroulée et scellée; et si dans trois jours il n'y avait pas de marque de brûlure, l'homme

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The story of the middle ages; an elementary history for sixth and seventh grades . heft;that is, we should examine witnesses, and try to findout all the facts in the ease. That was also the Romanway of doing things; but it was not the German way. The Germans had several ways of trying cases, themost curious of which was the ordeal. If they used this, they might force the man who was^ordeals accusccl to pluugc his hand into a pot of boiling water and pick up some smallobject from the bottom. Then the mans hand waswrapped up and sealed; and if in three days there wasno mark of scalding, the man was declared innocent. DESCENDANTS OF CLOFIS 75 In this way they left the decision of the case to God;for they thought that he would not permit an innocentman to suffer. Besides this form of the ordeal, there were alsoothers. In one of these the person accused had tocarry a piece of red-hot iron in his hand for a certaindistance. In another he was thrown, with hands andfeet tied, into a running stream. If he floated, he wasconsidered guilty; but if he sank, he was innocent, and. MFROVINGIAN KING ON AN OX CART must at once be pulled out. All of these forms of trialseem very absurd to us, but to men of the early MiddleAges they seemed perfectly natural; and theycontinued to be used until the thirteenth century. In spite of the wickedness of the descendants ofClovis, and in spite of the divisions of the kingdom, the power of the Franks continued to Later increase. For about one hundred and Mstoryofthe Franks. seventy years the Merovingian kings were powerful rulers; then, for about one hundred years. 76 TEE STOUT OF TEE MIDDLE AGES they gradually lost power, until they became so unimportant that they are called do-nothing kings. The rich estates which Clovis had left to his descendants were now wasted, through the reckless grants which the kings had made to their nothing nobles. So poor were the kings that they kings. could boast of but small estates and ascanty income; and when th

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