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The eighte
Booke.

Off chaunces that happen in particu:
lar combatts, & of agrements taken
betwixte the fighters.

Cap: Primu.

Twoe Gentlemen beinge at deffiaunce doe
Accorde to breake tenne launces sharpe, and yt he
that in his courses did worste performe his parte
sholde Reamine as vanquished. It fortuneth that after certeine
cowrses, the one by violence of the others encounter falleth from his
horse, notwthstandinge wch fall he offreth to runne owte the reste
of the number of launces agreed vppon, the aduersarie refuzeth to doe
it sayenge that because he fell from his horse thorough his force the
battle is finished and that he wthout further fighte ought to be victori:
ous In this case it is to be demaunded of the Iudge whether his pe:
ticion be lawfull or not? The decretall determineth that a combat
is not ended by a fall, for as in wrestlinge for certeine falls, yf
one fall be geven the victorie is not graunted, so yf a man at armes
doe fall from his horse, and sodeinlie recovereth his backe againe
he shall not be reputed for vanquished, because in the performance
of feates of armes for life & deathe the lawe condemneth none
till either the one or the other be deade or yelded, by reason that
notwthstandinge the fall wch might happen by mishap he
maye possiblie so valiauntlie behave him self as he maye
obteine the victorie. Therfore in all combatts for life & death