The Child And Childhood in Folk Thoughtstudies of the Activities And Influences
The Child And Childhood in Folk Thoughtstudies of the Activities And Influences
Chamberlain Alexander F.
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, but only _de futuro_"; but their spousalscould readily be turned into actual marriages after the girls weretwelve and the boys fourteen, as Dr. Furnivall points out. The fifth limitation to his general statement, which the learned judgemade, is thus strangely and quaintly expressed: "The fifth Limitationis, when the Infants which do contract Spousals are of that _Wit andDiscretion_, that albeit they have not as yet accomplished the fullAge of Seven Years, yet doth their supra-ordinary underst...anding fullysupply that small defect of Age which thing is not rare in these days, wherein Children become sooner ripe, and do conceive more quickly thanin former Ages" (234. Xxxvi. ). First among the causes of these child-marriages Dr. Furnivall isinclined to rank "the desire to evade the feudal law of the Sovereign'sguardianship of all infants, " for "when a father died, the Crown had theright to hold the person and estate of the propertied orphan until itcame of age, and it could be sold in marriage for the benefit of theCrown or its grantee.
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