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    WOMEN IN E3N T GKLAiS T D. 171

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    * !For Five Centuries Koine Lield Britai...

    method incurre Prior to d " f was the & r the changed introduction bride , ' s tlie rearing nature of Christianit * and of tiie education y transaction marriage . Thus was was , thoug identical simp h ly tlie a .

    foster legal -lean transaction _, and publicl . The y gave bride her ' s famil to her y were husband , present a cus . tom , accep built ted the the latter part of the Saxon periodupon

    the were During Norman contracts system to marry of " at a pous future als , " time was . introduced , They were . , s Espousals _iibject to

    fixed laws and forms . It was essential to their validity , that the The contract friends was assembled entered into and with the the bridegroom free consent formall of y both promised parties to .

    treat his betrothed well , " according to God ' s law , and the custom of society . " Besides this , , he was reasonable required time to g perform ive a wed his , or

    security , that he would , within a , promise calle . d " This forspeakers ived was " placed _ISText in the the bridegroom liands of stated trustees what , who he were

    inhereafter tended to ) , g and ive the as a . provision foster-lean he _, as could a morgen make - in gift event ( of which of his more wife followed these

    liminaries surviving- him After . The hand ceremony -fasting of they the exchange espousals gifts . That given

    preh ox y the to a bridegroom coin . . He was also called laced a rha ring _, upon earnes tlie t , and rig varied ht hand from of his an p

    promises betrothed espousals . . and A Securit considerable the marriage y was g time iven . The sometimes for law the provided mutual intervened ratification for the between non- of fulfil the the

    ment contract of within the engagement two . If he the forfeited man neg the lected foster to -lean comp . lete If the the years

    refusal an addition came of from one the -third lad to y , , then its ori the ginal fost value er-lean . was Thus returned , nothing , with was taken upon trust , every unromantic step was accompanied by certain conferred stipula real

    tionswhichhowever they may appear , underl and From sub , ing st legal antial , sentiment formalities benefits upon In it is the the pleasant tran contracting slation to turn made p for arties a by moment . King Alfred to the

    of of Boethiu a wife y s , for a passage her husband . occurs . in He which says he , " describes Liveth not the thy feelings wife She has

    celled also ? all She other is exceeding women ly in purit prudent y . , and She but very lives thee modest now She . for has thee , thee ex h -

    alone . Henceshe loves nothing else . enoug for of every thee good She , has in this shunned present it all life because ; but she she has has desp not ised thee it also all .

    think This one that . thing all which is now she wanting to is her nothing . Thine . absence Hence for makes thy love her

    possesses she is wasting , and well-nigh dead with tears the and sorrow . expressed "

    the Even same in tender the derivation and noble sentiments of proper . names Thus , , Editha Saxons means " The EadifaThe

    Blessed Gift ; _" Adeleve , _" The Noble Wife ; " g , " Happy

    Women In E3n T Gklais T D. 171

    WOMEN IN E 3 N GKLAiS D . 171

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 171, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/27/