[201] Adams, Civilization during the middle ages, 197.
[202] Emerton, Medieval Europe, 518.
[203] Garnier, Annals of the British peasantry, 141.
[204] Abram, English life and manners in the later middle ages, 30.
[205] Thwing, The family, 56-57.
[206] Hallam, Middle Ages, II, 179, quotes from Palgrave the following, coming under Norman times: "By the declaration of the husband at the church door, the wife was endowed in the presence of the assembled relations, and before all the merry attendants of the bridal train."
[207] Traill, Social England, I, 215-216.
[208] Abram, English life and manners in the later middle ages, 119.
[209] Dean, History of civilization, VI, 203.
[210] Abram, English life and manners in the late middle ages, 167.