Note 1199 — Chapter IX · THE PROTESTANT CONCEPTION OF MARRIAGE
Reading edition
"In an ancient manuscript (No. 1042 in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth Palace) the methods of contracting espousals are thus described: Contrahunta sponsalia iiij modis—Aliqua promissione, aliqua datis arris sponsalitiis interveniente anuli subarra[~c]oe, aliqua interveniente jura[~m]to. Nuda promissione cum dicit vir, Accipiam te ī meā uxorem, et illa respondet, Accipiā te in meū maritū. Vel alia verba equipollencia, et ista [~s]t vera sponsalia [~q]ndo sit per [~v]ba de futuro contahuntur."—Burn, Parish Registers, 139. On sworn espousals and the other forms see Swinburne, op. cits., 213 ff., 193 ff., passim.