The Rat Trial in Ottun

The barley farmers of ottun in 15 22. Weren't just feeding themselves any more. They owed taxes and tributes to france. And the rat's pilfering left them at a pretty pass. The local magistrate wrote up a formal complaint to the bishop's vicar. He asked for the rats to be charged, tried and excommunicated or anathematized. But they missed their first court date. I'm not so sure about the people in utton, the judge, the prosecutor. As we'll see over the course of things, the ecclesiastical court was considered very powerful, very righteous.