[984] See the rituals of Rennes, ca. eleventh century, and de lire, twelfth century, already referred to.
[985] "Statuantur vir et mulier ante ostium ecclesiae coram Deo et sacerdote et populo, vir a dextris mulieris et mulier a sinistris viri": York manual, in Surtees Society Publications, LXIII, 24. Cf. the Sarum, Hereford, and Welsh rituals, ibid., Appendix, 17, 115, 167; also the Sarum ritual in Maskell, I, 50. All these place the man on the right of the woman; but in "one MS. Manual of Sarum Use (early XVth century)," the woman "stands on the right hand of the man": Henderson, in preface to Surtees Society Publications, LXIII, xviii, xix.
[986] Compare the similar provisions, in more archaic words, in the Salisbury manual in the British Museum: Maskell, Monumenta ritualia, I, 52-54, margin; and the Latin form there given in the text.
[987] The words in the brackets in the formulæ for both parties are added in the Cambridge MS. of the York ritual.
[988] It will be noted that in the Cambridge MS. both the man and the woman promise to "worship." The same is true of the manuscript Salisbury ritual in the British Museum: Maskell, op. cit., I, 53.
[989] This provision is found in all these early rituals. Cf. Léon Gautier, La chevalerie, 427, note.
[990] This formula is common to the early rituals. It is omitted in the modern service of the English church, but retained in the present Roman ritual: Bingham The Christian Marriage Ceremony, 180.
[991] "Et ibi dimittat annulum secundum decretum xxx. quaestione v. Feminae, ad finem: quia in medico est quaedam vena procedens usque ad cor": p. 27. Cf. Gratian's Decretum, in Richter-Friedberg, Corpus jur. can., I. The "vein extending to the heart" is likewise mentioned in the rituals of Hereford and Sarum, and in the Welsh ritual of the fifteenth century. The Sarum ritual adds: "et in sonoritate argenti designatur interna dilectio, quae semper inter eos debet esse recens": Surtees Society Publications, LXIII, Appendix, 20.
[992] Thus a "MS. Manual of Sarum Use" provides, "whether there is land in the doury or not": "Tunc procidat sponsa ante pedes ejus, et deosculetur pedem ejus dextrum; tunc erigat eam sponsus": Surtees Society Publications, LXIII, 20, note; and Henderson, ibid., xix. On the York and Sarum rituals see Selden, Uxor ebraica, 193 ff.; and the points discussed are all illustrated in the Ordines published in Martene.
[993] This ritual also provides a form for the priestly blessing of the bridal chamber (benedictio thalami) and the nuptial couch: "Nocte vero sequenti cum sponsus et sponsa ad lectum pervenerint, accedat Sacerdos et benedicat thalamum;" the blessing concluding with the direction: "Tunc secundum morem antiquum thurificentur torus et thalamus": 39, 40. Similar forms are given in the Hereford, Sarum, and Bangor rituals: Surtees Society Publications, LXIII, Appendix, 25, 26, 120; Maskell, I, 76, 77 n. 47.