Note 1009 — Chapter VII · RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE CHURCH ACCEPTS THE LAY CONTRACT AND CEREMONIAL

Schmid, Gesetze, Anhang VI, 392, 393; Thorpe, Ancient Laws, I, 255-57; Makower, loc. cit. Cf. also the Excerptiones Ecgberti, c. 90 (or 88), Thorpe, II, 110, reproducing a canon of the Council of Carthage requiring that "the bridegroom and bride be offered by the parents, and bridefolk, to receive the priest's benediction": Johnson's Canons, I, 202, and the so-called Canones Ælfrici (A. D. 992-1001), sec. 9, in Thorpe, II, 347, declaring that "the layman may, however, with the apostle's leave take a wife a second time; if his wife falls away from him; but the canons forbid blessing thereto and have ordered such men to do penance": Makower, loc. cit.