A Short History of Women's Rights / From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.

by Eugene A. Hecker

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That is, for the common people. Kings have always had a little way of doing as they pleased. See the anecdote of King Cusupald in Paulus' Hist. Langobard, i, 21: secunda autem (sc. filia Wacchonis) dicta est Walderada, quae sociata est Cusupald, alio regi Francorum, quam ipse odio habens uni ex suis, qui dicebatur Garipald, in coniugium tradidit.

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For all this see Lex Burgundionum, 34, 1-4.

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For all these, see Lex Wisigothorum, iii, 6, 1 and 2.