Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gxg78 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T04:57:52.496Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

IX. Remarks on some ancient Marriage Customs. Communicated by Francis Douce, Esq. F.A.S.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Get access

Extract

I have the honour of presenting the Society with some account of a custom formerly observed at the Marriage Ceremony both in France and England, and which I do not remember to have seen noticed by any writer of our own country.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1814

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 124 note a There is another sort inscribed DENIER TOVRNOIS POVR EPOVSER.

page 125 note b Arist. Polit. lib. II. c. 6. Nor must it be omitted, that something of the kind appears in earlier times. See Genesis xxxiv. 12, and Exod. xxii. 17.

page 125 note c Lex Saxon. Tit. VI. de conjugiis.

page 125 note d Vet. form, apud Pithœi lib, leg. Salic. 1602 8vo. Canciani Leges antiquæ. II. 270.

page 126 note e Harl, MS, 2984.

page 127 note f Gregor. Turon. in vita S, Leobardi.