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Chronological List of Excommunications and Prosecutions of Animals from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century.5
| Sources of Information | Dates | Animals | Places |
| Annales Ecclesiastici Francorum | 824 | Moles | Valley of Aosta |
| Muratori: Rer. Ital. Scriptores, iii | 886 | Locusts | Roman Campagna |
| Gaspard Bailly: Traité des Monitoires | 9th cent. | Serpents | Aix-les-Bains |
| Sainte-Foix: Oeuvres, iv, p. 97, Mémoires de la Société Royale des Antiquaires de France, viii, p. 427 | 1120 | Field-mice and Caterpillars | Laon |
| Théophile Raynaud: De Monitoriis in Opusc. missc. ejus, xiv, p. 482. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 415. Note, Vita S. Bernhardi, i, No. 58. Acta., SS. Aug. iv, p. 272 | 1121 | Flies | Foigny near Laon |
| 1121 | Horseflies | Mayence | |
| Malleolus: De Exorcismis | 1225 | Eels | Lausanne |
| L’Abbé Leboeuf: Hist. de Paris, ix, p. 400. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 427 | 1266 | Pig | Fontenay-aux-Roses near Paris |
| Sainte-Foix: Oeuvres Thémis, viii | 1314 | Bull | Moiey-le-Temple |
| “”” | 1320 | Cockchafers | Avignon |
| Carpentier to Du Cange, vide Homicida | 1322 | Not Specified | |
| “”” Both cited by Von Amira, p. 552 | 1323 | Abbeville | |
| Zeitschrift für deutsche Kulturgeschichte, ii, p. 544; also Germania, iv, p. 383. Von Amira, p. 561 | 1338 | Kaltern | |
| Delisle: Etudes sur la condition de la classe agricole, p. 107. Von Amira, p. 552 | 1356 | Pig | Caen |
| Carpentier to Du Cange. Vide homicida. Von Amira, p. 552 | 1378 | Abbeville | |
| Garnier: Revue des Sociétés Savantes, Dec. 1866, pp. 476, sqq. From the archives of Côte-d’Or | 1379 | Three sows and a pig. Rest of the two herds pardoned | Saint-Marcel les-Jussey |
| Charange: Dict. des Titres Originaux, ii, p. 72. Also statistique de Falaise, i, p. 63. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 427 | 1386 | Sow | Falaise |
| Auranton: Annuaire de la Côte-d’Or | 1389 | Horse | Dijon |
| Berriat-Saint-Prix in Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 427. From MSS. in la Bibliothèque du Roi | 1394 | Pig | Mortaing |
| Malleolus: De Exorcismis, Tract. ii, Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 411 | 14th cent. | Spanish flies | Mayence |
| MS. of Judge Hérisson, published by Lejeune in Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 433; also Loriol: La France Eure et Loire, p. 108 | 1403 | Sow | Meulan |
| Auranton: Annuaire de la Côte-d’Or | 1404 | Pig | Rouvre |
| MS. Bibliothèque du Roi Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 427 | 1405 | Ox | Gisors |
| MS. Bibliothèque du Roi Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 428 | 1408 | Pig | Pont-de-l’Arche |
| Louandre: Histoire d’Abbeville | 1414 | ″ | Abbeville |
| “”” | 1418 | ″ | ″ |
| Auranton: Annuaire de la Côte-d’Or | 1419 | ″ | Labergement-le-Duc |
| “”” | 1420 | ″ | Brochon |
| “”” | 1435 | ″ | Trochères |
| Malleolus: De Exorcismis, Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 423 | 1451 | Rats and Bloodsuckers | Berne |
| Garnier: Revue des Sociétés Savantes, iv, p. 476 sqq. Dec. 1866 | 1452 | Sixteen cows and one goat | Rouvre |
| Gui-Pape: Decisiones Thémis, i, p. 196 | 1456 | Pig | Bourgogne |
| Mémoires, cit., viii, pp. 441-445. From Archives of Monjeu and Dependencies | 1457 | Sow | Savigny-sur-Etang, Bourgogne |
| Desnoyers: Recherches etc. | 1460-1 | Weevils | Dijon |
| A. Duboys: Justice et Bourreau à Amiens | 1463 | Two pigs | Amiens |
| Sauval: Histoire de Paris, iii, p. 387. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 428 | 1466 | Sow | Corbeil |
| A. Duboys: Histoire de Paris | 1470 | Mare | Amiens |
| Promenades pittoresques dans l’Evêché de Bâle. Journal du Départment du Nord, Nov. 1, 1813. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 428. Johann Gross: Kleine Baseler Chronik. | 1474 | Cock | Bâle |
| Schilling: Chronica (Zurich MS.), Hottinger: Hist. Eccles. Pars iv, pp. 317-321 | 1478 | Inger (sort of weevil) | Berne |
| Ruchat: Hist. Eccles. du Pays de Vaud | 14796 | Inger | ″ |
| Hist. de Nismes. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 428 | 1479 | Rats and Moles | Nîmes |
| Louandre: Hist. d’Abbeville | 1479 | Pig | Abbeville |
| Chasseneus: Consilia von Amira, p. 561 | 1481 | Caterpillars | Macon |
| Victor Hugo: Nôtre Dame de Paris | 1482 | Goat | Paris |
| Chasseneus: Consilia. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 416 | 1487 | Snails | Macon |
| “”” | 1488 | ″ | Autun |
| “”” | 1488 | Weevils | Beaujeu |
| Louandre: Hist. d’Abbeville | 1490 | Pig | Abbeville |
| Annuaire de l’Aisne 1812, p. 88. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 428, 446 | 1494 | Pig | Clermont-les-Moncornet |
| Saint-Edme: Dict. de la Penalité, sub verb. Animaux | 1497 | Sow | Charonne |
| Voyage Littéraire de deux Bénédictins (Durand et Martenne), 1717, ii, p. 166-7 | 1499 | Bull | Beauvais |
| Archives de l’Abbaye de Josaphat. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 434-5 | 1499 | Pig | Sèves near Chartres |
| Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 434 | 15th cent. | Sow | Dunois |
| Malleolus: De Exorcismis | ″ | Caterpillars | Coire |
| “”” | ″ | Worms | Constance |
| “”” | ″ | Beetles | Coire |
| Louandre: L’Épopée des Animaux | 1500 | Flies | Mayence |
| Chasseneus: Consilia | 1500 | Snails | Lyon |
| Chasseneus: Consilia | 1500-1530 | Vermin (Rats, etc.) | Autun |
| Mémoires et Documents, publ. par la Soc. de la Suisse Romande, vii, No. 97, pp. 675-677 | 1509 | Vermin | Lausanne |
| Annuaire de la Côte-d’Or | 1510 | Pig | Dijon |
| Annuaire de la Côte-d’Or. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 447 | 1512 | ″ | Arcenaux |
| Mathieu: Hist. des Évêques de Langres, p. 188 | 1512-13 | Rats and Insects | Langres |
| Groslée: Ephémérides, 1811, ii, p. 153, 168. Cf. Théophile Raynaud: Opusc, 1665, p. 482. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 413, 418, 424 | 1516 (1506 according to some authorities) | Weevils | Troyes in Champagne |
| Habasque: Not. hist. sur le Litoral des Côtes-du-Nord, p. 89 | 1516 | Locusts | Tréguier |
| Scheible: Das Kloster, xii, pp. 946-48 | 1519 | Field-mice | Glurns (Stelvio) |
| Saint-Edme: Dict. de la Penalité. Cf. Chasseneus | 15227 | Rats | Autun |
| Vernet in Thémis ou Bibliothèque des Jurisconsulte, viii | 1525 | Dog | Parliament of Toulouse |
| Papon and Boesius: Decisiones. Cf. Thémis, viii | 1528 | Not specified | Parliament of Bordeaux |
| “”” | 1528 | ″ | “” |
| Ménebréa: Jugements rendus contre les Animaux, p. 505. From Grenier: Documents relatifs à l’hist. du pays de Vaud. | 1536 | Weevils | Lutry (on Lake Leman) |
| Lerouge: Registre secret manuscrit | 1540 | Bitch | Meaux |
| Annuaire de la Côte-d’Or | 1540 | Pig | Dijon |
| Lerouge: Registre secret manuscrit | 1541 | She-Ass | Loudun |
| Bailly: Traité des Monitoires, ii | 1541 | Grasshoppers | Lombardy |
| Malleolus: De Exorcismis | 1541 | Vermin (worms, rats, bloodsuckers) | Lausanne |
| Berriat-Saint-Prix in Thémis, i, p. 196 | 1543 | Snails and Locusts | Grenoble |
| Ménebréa: Jugements rendus contre les Animaux, pp. 544, 545, 556. De Actis Scindicorum com. St. Jul., etc. | 1545 and 1546 | Weevils | St. Jean de Maurienne |
| Dulaure: Hist. de Paris, iii, p. 28, Registres manuscrits de la Tournelle. Cf. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 429 | 1546 | Cow | Parliament of Paris |
| Lerouge: Registre secret manuscrit | 1550 | ″ | “” |
| “”” | 1551 | Goat | Ile de Rhé |
| “”” | 1554 | Sheep (ewe) | Beaugé |
| Aldrovande: De Insectis, 1602, lib. vii, 724. Mémoires, cit. viii, p. 429 | 1554 | Bloodsuckers | Lausanne |
| Desnoyer, cited in Revue des questions historiques, v, p. 278. Von Armira, p. 567 | 1554 | Insects | Langres |
| Lerouge: Registre secret manuscrit | 1556 | She-Ass | Sens |
| Lecoq: Hist. de la Ville de Saint-Quintin, p. 143. Sorel: Procès contre des animaux, etc., p. 9 | 1557 | Pig | Saint-Quintin |
| Lerouge: Registre secret manuscrit | 1560 | She-Ass | Loigny near Châteaudun |
| “”” | 1561 | Cow | Augoudessus in Picardy |
| Lessona: I Nemici del Vino. Regist. Epir. Par. for May 8 | 1562 | Weevils | Argenteuil |
| Ranchin on Gui. Pape Quaest., 74. Thémis, i, p. 196. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 429 | 1565 | Mule | Montpellier |
| Papon: Decisiones. Thémis, viii | 1565 | Not specified | Parliament of Toulouse |
| Louandre: L’Epopée des Animaux | 1566 | She-Ass | Parliament of Paris |
| MSS. of Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris | 1567 | Sow | Senlis |
| Lionnois: Hist. de Nancy, 1811, ii, p. 374 | 1572 | Pig | Moyen-Montier, near Nancy |
| Lersner: Chronica, 1706, p. 552 | 1574 | ″ | Frankfort-on-the-Main |
| Brillon: Decisiones Thémis, viii | 1575 | She-Ass | Parliament of Paris |
| Haus-Chronik von Schweinfurt, in Zeitschrift für deutsche Kulturgeschichte, i, 156 | 1576 | Pig | Schweinfurt |
| Cannaert: Bydragen tot de Kennis van het oude strafrecht in Vlandern, 1835, p. vii | 1578 | Pig(?) | Ghent |
| Derheims: Hist. de Saint-Omer, p. 327 | 1585 | Pig | Saint-Omer |
| Chorier: Hist. du Dauphiné. Cf. Thémis, i, p. 196 | ″ | Locusts | Valence |
| Ménebréa: Jugements rendus contre les animaux, etc., pp. 546, 549 | 1587 | Weevils | St. Jean-de-Maurienne |
| Fornery and Laincel | 1596 | Dolphins | Marseilles |
| Théophile Raynaud: De Monitoriis, p. 482. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 429 | 16th cent. (first half) | Weevils and Grasshoppers | Cotentin |
| Chasseneus: Consilia. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 415 | ″ | Snails | Lyons |
| “”” | ″ | Weevils | Mâcon |
| “”” | ″ | Pig | Dijon |
| Louandre: L’Épopée des Animaux | ″ | Dog | Scotland |
| Duboys: Hist. du Droit Crim. de la France | 16th cent. second half | Weevils | Angers |
| Azpilcueta Martinus Doctor Navarrus: Consilia seu Responsa, 1602, ii, p. 812. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 419. Théoph. Raynaud, cit., p. 482 | ″ | Rats | Spain |
| Francesco Vivio: Decisiones, No. 68. Cited by D’Addosio: Bestie Delinq., p. 125 | 16th cent. second half | Divers animals | Aquila in Italy |
| Archives of Obwalden | ″ | Gadflies | Aargau |
| Leonardo Vairo: De Fascino. Cf. D’Addosio, cit., p. 115 | ″ | Locusts | Naples |
| Sardagna: L’uomo e le Bestie. Cited by D’Addosio | ″ | Horse | Portugal |
| Mornacius to Du Cange, s.v. Homicida | 1600 | Beauvais | |
| Lerouge: Registre secret manuscrit | ″ | Cow | Thouars |
| “”” | ″ | ″ | Abbeville |
| Lessona: I Nemici del Vino, 1890, p. 141 | ″ | Weevils | Vercelli |
| Papon: Decisiones. Thémis, viii. Lerouge: Reg. secret manuscrit | 1601 | Dog | Brie |
| Lerouge: Registre secret manuscrit | ″ | Mare | Provins |
| Papon: Recueil d’Arrets | 1601 | Not specified | Parliament of Paris |
| Charma: Leçons de Philosophie | 1604 | Ass | Parliament of Paris |
| Guerra: Diurnali | ″ | ″ | Naples |
| Lerouge: Registre secret manuscrit | ″ | Mare | Joinville |
| “”” | 1606 | Sheep | Riom |
| “”” | ″ | Cow | Châteaurenaud |
| “”” | ″ | Mare | Coiffy near Langres |
| Lejeune: Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 418 | ″ | Bitch | Chartres |
| Lerouge: Registre secret manuscrit | 1607 | Mare | Boursant near d’Epernay |
| “”” | 1609 | ″ | Montmorency |
| “”” | ″ | ″ | Niederrad |
| Voltaire: Siècle de Louis XIV, ch. i. Louandre: Rev. des deux Mondes, 1854, i, p. 334 | ″ | Cow | Parliament of Paris |
| Lerouge: Registre secret manuscrit | 1610 | Horse | Paris |
| “”” | 1611 | Goat | Laval |
| “”” | ″ | Cow | St. Fergeux near Rethel |
| “”” | 1613 | Sow | Montoiron near Chatelleraut |
| “”” | 1614 | She-Ass | Le Mans |
| Desnoyers: Recherches, etc., p. 13 | 1616 | Rats and insects | Langres |
| Anzeige für Kunde der deutschen Vorzeit, 1880, col. 102 | 1621 | Cow | Machern near Leipsic |
| Lerouge: Registre secret manuscrit | 1621 | Mare | La Rochelle |
| “”” | 1622 | ″ | Montpensier |
| “”” | 1623 | She-Ass | Bessay near Moulins |
| “”” | 1624 | Mule | Chefboutonne (Poitou) |
| Döpler: Theat. pen., ii, p. 574 | 1631 | Mares and Cows | Greifenberg |
| Marchisio Michele: Gatte ed. insetti nocivi, 1834, p. 63 sqq. | 1633 | Weevils | Strambino (Ivrea) |
| Lerouge: Registre secret manuscrit | ″ | Mare | Bellac |
| Carpentier to Du Cange, s.v. Homicida | 1641 | Pig | Viroflay |
| Lerouge: Registre secret manuscrit | 1647 | Mare | Parliament of Paris |
| “”” | 1650 | ″ | Fresnay near Chartres |
| Crollolanza: Storia del Contado di Chiavenna, p. 455 sqq. | 1659 | Caterpillars | Chiavenna |
| Perrero: Gazzetta Litteraria di Torino, Feb. 24, 1883 | 1661 | Weevils | Turin |
| Cotton Mather: Magnalia Christi Americana, Book vi. London, 1702 | 1662 | Cow, two Heifers, three Sheep, and two Sows | New Haven, Conn. |
| Lerouge: Registre secret manuscrit | 1666 | Mare | Tours |
| “”” | ″ | ″ | St. P. Lemontiers |
| Lerouge: Registre secret manuscrit | 1667 | She-Ass | Vaudes near Bar-sur-Seine |
| “”” | 1668 | Mare | Angers |
| Annales scientifiques de l’Auvergne, Vol. vii, p. 391 | 1670 | Locusts | Clermont |
| Döpler: Theatrum pen., ii, p. 5 | 1676 | Mare and Cow | Silesia |
| Lerouge: Registre secret manuscrit | 1678 | ″ | Beaugé |
| Perrero: Gaz. Litter. di Torius, Feb. 24, 1883 | ″ | Weevils | Turin |
| Brillon: Decisiones, i, p. 914. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 431. Boniface: Traité des matières criminelles, 1785, p. 31 | 1679 | Mare | Parliament d’Aix |
| Chorier: Hist du Dauphiné. Thémis, viii | Before 1680 | Worms | Constance and Coire |
| Lerouge: Registre secret manuscrit | 1680 | Mare | Fourches near Provins |
| Heinrich Roch: Schlesische Chronik, p. 342. Döpler: Theat. pen., ii, p. 573 sqq. | 1681 | Mare | Wünschelburg in Silesia |
| “”” | 1684 | Mare | Ottendorf |
| “”” | 1685 | ″ | Striga |
| Dulaure: Description des principaux lieux de la France, 1789, v, p. 493 sqq. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 412 | 1690 | Locusts | Pont-de-Château in Auvergne |
| Lerouge: Registre secret manuscrit | 1692 | Mare | Moulins |
| La Hontan: Voyages, Let. xi, p. 79. Mémoires, cit., viii, p. 431 | End of 17th cent. | Turtledoves | Canada |
| Meiners: Vergleichung des ältern u, neuern Russlands, p. 291. Cf. Amira, p. 573 | ″ | He-Goat | Russia banished to Siberia |
| Registres de la Paroise de Grignon | 1710 | Rats | Grignon |
| Sorel: Procès contre des animaux, etc., p. 23 | 1710 | Vermin | Autun |
| Rinds Herreds Krönike and other sources given by Amira, p. 565 | 1711 | ″ | Als in Jutland |
| Agnel: Curiosités judiciaires et historiques du moyen-âge, p. 46. Cf. Manoel Bernardes: Nova Floresta ou Sylva de varios apophthegmas, etc. 5 tom. Lisboá, 1706-47 | 1713 | Termites | Piedade no Maranhão in Brazil |
| MSS. of Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris, No. 10,970. D’Addosio: Best. Del., p. 107 | 1726 | Not specified | Paris |
| Ménebréa: Jugements contre les animaux, p. 508 | 1731 | Insects | Thonon |
| La Tradition, 1888, p. 363 sqq. Amira, p. 564 | 1733 | Vermin | Buranton |
| Rousseaud de Lacombe: Traité des matières crim. D’Addosio: Best. Del., p. 107 | 1741 | Cow | Poitou |
| Ant. de Saint-Gervais: Hist. des Animaux | 1750 | She-Ass | Vanvres |
| A Report of the Case of Farmer Carter’s Dog. Amira, p. 559 | 1771 | Dog | Chichester, England |
| Comparon: Hist. du Tribunal Révolutionnaire de Paris. Cf. Sorel, op. cit., p. 16 | 1793 | ″ | Paris |
| Filangieri: Scienza della Legislazione | 18th cent. | Dogs | Italy |
| Det. Kong. Danske Landhusholdnings-Selskabs Skrifter. Ny Saml. ii, 1, 22. Amira, p. 565 | 1805-6 | Vermin | Lyö in Denmark |
| Desnoyers: Recherches, etc., p. 15 | 1826 | Locusts | Clermont-Ferrand |
| Gazette des Tribunaux, Jan. 23, 1845 | 1845 | Dog | Paris |
| “”” | 1864 | Pig | Pleternica in Slavonia |
| Krauss, quoted by Amira, p. 573 | 1866 | Locusts | Pozega in Slavonia |
| “”” | ″ | Grasshoppers | Vidovici in Slavonia |
| Desnoyer: Recherches, etc., p. 15 | 19th cent. | Locusts | Catalonia |
| Allg. deutsche Strafrechts-zeitung, 1861, No. 2. Also Pertile: Gli animali in giudizio | ″ | Cock | Leeds in England |
| Cretella: Gli Animali sotto processo in Fanfulla 1891, No. 65. Cf. Amira, p. 569 | ″ | Wolf | Calabria |
| New York Herald and Echo de Paris, May 4, 19068 | 1906 | Dog | Délémont in Switzerland |