Note 881 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE
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Thorpe, Anc. Laws, I, 255, 257, who classes this formulary with the laws of Eadmund. Schmid leaves the date undetermined, but thinks it may with as much probability be ascribed to Eadmund or Æthelstan as any other king: Gesetze, lxv, find Anhang, VI, 391, 393. Cf. Pollock and Maitland, Hist. Eng. Law, II, 367; and Dieckhoff, Kirchliche Trauung, 68 ff., who gives the text of this ritual.