Note 931 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE

See the "Ordo ad facienda sponsalia," in the Manuale et processionale ad usum insignis ecclesiae eboracensis: Surtees Society Publications, LXIII, 26, 27. The double ceremony also appears in the Sarum or Salisbury manual: Maskell, Monumenta ritualia, I, 56, 57: Surtees Society Publications, LXIII, Appendix, 18, 19; in the ritual of Hereford; that of the twelfth century contained in a Pontifical of the library of Magdalen College, Oxford; in that of the missal of Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, dating from the thirteenth century; and in that of the fifteenth century in the Harleian MS., No. 2860, British Museum; that of a Welsh manual of the same century, in the library of the dean and chapter of Hereford; while it is plainly discernible in the ritual of the twelfth century contained in the Ely Pontifical of Cambridge University library; and that of the Pontifical of Anianus, bishop of Bangor, 1268-1304: all printed in Surtees Society Publications, LXIII, Appendix, 116, 155-69. Cf. the rituals printed by Dieckhoff, Kirchliche Trauung, 73, 77, 89 ff.; and the Roman marriage service in Bingham, 177, 178, where the dualism appears; but in the ritual of Paul V. it is not retained, unless the subsequent giving of the ring may be regarded as the second part. The priest says: "M. vis accipere N. hic praesentem in tuam legitimam uxorem?" or "tuum legitimum maritum?" and on receiving the answer, "Volo," proceeds: "Ego conjungo vos in matrimonio": Rituali romanum Pauli Quinti (Rome, 1816), 199 f. See the discussion of the contents of the early rituals in chap, vii, below.