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| Francis Douce - Gesta Romanorum - 1807 - 552 pages
...injoin that the parties shall not get drunk on these occasions. The ceremony, generally speaking, was performed by the priest demanding of the parties if...have had, in the capacity of godfather or godmother, or whether they had committed incontinence with any near relation of the other party ; but the latter... | |
| Francis Douce - Gesta Romanorum - 1807 - 560 pages
...injoin that the parties shall not get drunk on these occasions. The ceremony, generally speaking, was performed by the priest demanding of the parties if...have had, in the capacity of godfather or godmother, or whether they had committed incontinence with any near relation of the other party ; but the latter... | |
| Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - Antiquities - 1825 - 508 pages
...healths ; by the joining of hands and testimony of witnesses. The ceremony, generally speaking, was performed by the priest, demanding of the parties...whether they had acted for each other, or for any child which they might have had in the capacity of godfather or godmother ; or whether they had committed... | |
| Francis Douce - Clowns in literature - 1839 - 678 pages
...enjoin that the parties shall not get drunk on these occasions. The ceremony, generally speaking, was performed by the priest demanding of the parties if...have had, in the capacity of godfather or godmother, or whether they had committed incontinence with any near relation of the other party; but the latter... | |
| Henry Mead - Literary curiosa - 1846 - 254 pages
...enjoin that the parties shall not get drunk on these occasions. The ceremony, generally speaking, was performed by the priest demanding of the parties if...have had, in the capacity of godfather or godmother, or whether they had committed incontinence with any near relation of the other party : but the latter... | |
| John Southerden Burn - Church records and registers - 1862 - 316 pages
...greater guifts than a man hath."—Spon. Crud. 9, fo. 93. The form of Espousals at Church, in England, 2 has not been handed down in any of its ancient Ecclesiastical...or made a vow of chastity or religion, whether they they afterwards married them, were punished together as fornicators. (Zonar. in Canones.) 1 In a recent... | |
| Edward J. Wood - Marriage - 1869 - 318 pages
...mass. When the ceremony of betrothal was performed before a priest, he demanded of the parties whether they had entered into a contract with any other person,...whether they had acted for each other, or for any child which they might have had, in the capacity of godfather or godmother ; or whether they had committed... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1901 - 472 pages
...the presence of the priest alone would not have sufficed. . . . The ceremony, generally speaking, was performed by the priest demanding of the parties if...other person, or made a vow of chastity or religion. . . . Then this oath was administered : ' You swear by God and his holy saints herein, and by the saints... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1901 - 472 pages
...the presence of the priest alone would not have sufficed. . . . The ceremony, generally speaking, was performed by the priest demanding of the parties if...other person, or made a vow of chastity or religion. . . . Then this oath was administered : ' You swear by God and his holy saints herein, and by the saints... | |
| George Elliott Howard - Families - 1904 - 500 pages
...been preserved in a few of the French and Italian rituals." * "The ceremony, generally speaking, was performed by the priest demanding of the parties if...have had, in the capacity of godfather or godmother." Then, if the contract were in the form of sponsalia jurata or sworn espousals, the "oath was administered.... | |
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