A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3

by George Elliott Howard

[1149] Traill, Social England, III, 578.

[1150] Theiner, Acta gen., II, 334, 347, 351, 352, 391, 395: Salis, Pub. des trid. Rechts, 10 n. 16. Cf. Waterworth, Canons, ccxxiii.

[1151] So, for instance, in France: Friedberg, Eheschliessung, 64 n. 5; and in Spain, ibid., 74.

[1152] Salis, Pub. des trid. Rechts, 11, 12, collates the evidence for the various opinions from Theiner, Acta gen., II. Cf. Friedberg, op. cit., 108 ff.

[1153] Sohm, Eheschliessung, 175.

[1154] Ibid., 181.

[1155] Capit. 802, c. 35: Walter, Corpus juris germ., II, 167: "conjunctiones facere non praesumant, antequam episcopi presbyteri cum senioribus populi consanguinitatem conjungentium diligenter exquirant, et tune cum benedictions jungantur." Cf. Sohm's interpretation, op. cit., 181, vs. that of Friedberg, Eheschliessung, 59.

[1156] See p. 314, above; and cf. Pollock and Maitland, op. cit., II, 368; Friedberg, op. cit., 10, 653, 654, for the present practice as to banns in various countries.

[1157] Johnson's Canons, II, 91, 340, 352, 395, 410.

[1158] See the rituals of York, Sarum, Hereford, and others, in Surtees Society Publications, LXIII, 26 ff., Appendix, 17 ff., 115 ff., 155 ff.; and the Salisbury ritual in Maskell's Monumenta, I, 50 ff.