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The Nineth
Booke, wherin mencion is made of such
as doe yelde them selues Prisoners in
Combatt or particular fighte, and promise
to be at the Devotion of the victorious

Iff A man Uanquished in personall com:
bat not beinge slaine, nor dooth denie his
worde but yeldeth him selfe a prisonner
whether his aduersarie beinge Uictori:
ous may afterwardes kill him or not.

Ca. Primu:

A certen knight beinge desirous to make
proofe of his virtue and valewre ware an Emprese
or devise & published yt yf any other gent durste touche
the same he wold fight wth him yt sholde doe it for life & death
wth Condicion that wchsoeuer of them were vanquished, sholde re:
maine a prisonner to him that was victorious. This knight
comminge to the Courte of a Certeine Prince & proclaiminge
there his Challenge, at length stopped forth a worthie gent
who (suppozing that all others for wante of Courage had re:
fuzed to answere the Challinger) manfullie towched the de:
vise & accepted the Condicions of the Challinger. After:
wardes comminge to Combatt the one became vanquished &
yelded prisonner, & wthin a fewe dayes the partie victorious
determined to kill his prisonner, the Iudge was demaunded
whether he might lawfullie so doe or not. Therto was answe:
red that albeit the fight was for life & death, & that the par:
tie vanquished might have bene in the Combat iustlie slaine
by his ennemie, yet the Combat beinge ended & the resistaunce