State witness Lourentia Lombaard testified during the Joslin Smith trial that she was beaten for three weeks at a house in ...

The Anglo-Saxons used trial by ordeal to determine proof through the Judgement of God, the Judicium Dei. The two main types of ordeal are explored, trial by hot iron and trial by water.

The group's ordeal is being re-enacted on Saturday and Sunday in Huntingdon's Georgian courtroom, on the site of the building where the 17th Century trial took place. "For many people, the Civil ...