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WOMEN IN ENGLAND.. 173
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* !For Five Centuries Koine Lield Britai...
sword To jewel of s Constantino , perfumes , the spices Great , holy the relics spe , ar and of Charlemagn horses , lie added e , and the the
, banner of St . Maurice . Feasting followed the marriage ceremony , andas the Saxons were much addicted to the pleasures of the
table , it was often carried to excess . The day after the marriage the husband , made his wife a presentcalled the morgen-gift . At
firstthis was a trifling gift ; but , as , the influence of women increase , dthis became a magnificent donation , varying from horses
anti and quity slaves , and to became large landed the exclusive estates . propert This was y of the the pin wife -money , and of is
frequentl land at y Faccaucumb , mentioned in calls ladies it ' her wills " . Wynfleda -ift , . " bequeathing Elfleda says some in morgeng
her will" Rettendun , that was my morgen-gyfn , " and Elf helm , in , declare what ive to wife for her
his mor and g will the en- , g writes three ive ; that , hides " And is , at B I Hean dewan -healem _, and . " Burge I g Otho -stede Emperor my , and _Strsetford of Ger- , ,
many , gave Eadgyth , the sister of Athelstan , the city of Magdeover burg As _^ her regards as fader her morgen -fiod propert and -g y ift , morgen the . wife -g , ift in . earl In became y event times entitled of , had her having onl to y half control chil his
propert dren and y , surviving otherwise her she husband had no , legal she claim on his inheritance . But of Canute as society , every improved contingency , this difficulty was considered was foreseen and , and provided in the time for
with as much care as the most astute lawyer could desire . Subjoined marriage is -settlement a document . which "Wulfstan may died be deed in sty 1023 led an , so Ang that lo- we Saxon can assi lady gn ' s
an " approximate There date in to this this writing curious the compact . which "Wulfstan and the archbishop appears made when he obtained the archbishop ' s sister for
his _Hebbedfordn wife . It for is , that her li he fe promised and promised her the her land the land at Ealretune at Cnihte and _-wica at ;
that he would obtain it , for herfor the lives of three men , from the Eanulfin monastery -tune , to at give Wincelcumbe and to life grant , , to and those to those he that gave that her were dearest the dearest land to her to at
thirt her and during he horses promised life , Now and her after of fifty this her manees were to of witness gold , and " were Wulfstan thirty , the men Arch , and - ;
bishop JElford y , , and Abbot Leofwin . , and , Briteh the Earldorman and , Monk , and , and and many _JEthelstan thi , good men , Bishop in relation , thus and
to themboth ecclesiastic laymen , s compact was the made Archbishop . , Now , of at this Wi compact gere ceaster there , and are another two writings with . ; _/ Ethelstan one with ,
property the Beyond Bishop . the of Mr Herford . morgen Turner . -g , ' ift in , his women " History might of inherit the Ang and lo dispose -Saxons / of '
has cited many instances of women enjoying this right . He says ,
Women In England.. 173
WOMEN IN ENGLAND .. 173
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 173, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/29/
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