INDEX.
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African tribes, courtship among,
42
America, English misrepresentation of,
62
.
America, bundling in,
44
inherits bundling from Holland, 45.
bundling not peculiar to, 13.
bundling universal in 1750, 106.
Ballads against bundling,
81
,
100
.
in favor of bundling, 88, 93.
Brychan, a cloth,
23
.
Bundling, antiquity of,
14
.
Bundling, abuse of, in New England,
75
.
ballads on, 81, 88, 93, 100.
ceased with eighteenth century, 106,
confined to the lower classes, 107.
Bundling, described by Lt. Anbury in 1777,
66
.
definition of, 13.
decision of N. Y. Supreme Court on, 111.
effect of, 75.
in America, 44.
in British isles, 14, 22.
in Cape Cod, 110.
in Holland, 35.
Bundling in Maine about 1828,
117
.
in New England States, 48.
in Wales, 23, 115.
introduced in America from Holland, 45.
mentioned by Rev. Sam'l Peters, 51.
mentioned by Washington Irving, 49.
mentioned by Dr. A. Burnaby, 1759, 58.
mentioned by Sir Walter Scott, 20.
not peculiar to America, 13.
Bundling originating in poverty in Scotland and Ireland,
23
.
origin of, 14.
originally confined to the lower classes in America, 65.
practiced in Pennsylvania till late years, 109.
preached against, 54.
recollections of by old persons, 106.
Bundling regarded as a serious evil,
106
.
sanctioned by parents, 69.
sermon against, 77.
two forms of, 13.
universal now in lower classes of Scotland, 130.
universal in America in 1750, 106.
-up, in Wales, 42.
Cape Cod, bundling practiced there in 1827,
110
.
Central Asia, courtship in,
42
.
Confession in public necessary for baptism of children,
76
.
Courtship, customs of, in Great Britain,
127
.
Courtship among Welsh peasantry,
29
.
in Central Asia, 42.
in the 14th century, 37.
among N. A. Indians, 40.
in Switzerland, 38.
Cuckold, no word in Gaelic for,
21
.
Customs of courtship, different in the cantons of Switzerland,
39
.
Dayaks of Borneo, courtship of,
42
.
Dorfen, in Switzerland,
39
.
Empress Cartismandua,
21
.
Julia, 20.
Epilogue on bundling at Westminster school, 1815,
61
.
Free-bench,
22
.
French war, demoralizing influence of,
74
.
Germans, respect of, for women,
21
.
Gordon, Sir Robert,
19
.
Sir Adam, 19.
Great Britain, bundling common at the present day in,
126
.
Great Britain, immorality of lower classes in,
127
.
Gwent, a district in Wales,
34
.
Gwentian Code of Wales,
34
.
Hand-fasting, a Scotch custom,
17
,
19
.
common among all classes, 20.
Highland law of marriage,
16
.
Highlanders, curious custom of the,
17
.
Holland, bundling in,
35
,
36
.
Illegitimacy not considered a disgrace in Scotland,
131
.
Kiltgang in canton of Lucerne.
39
.
Kweesten, a Dutch custom,
36
.
La Hontan, Indian custom described by,
41
.
Lichtgetren, in Switzerland,
39
.
Love and courtship in the 14th century,
37
.
Maine, bundling in, 1828,
118
.
Marriage laws of Great Britain, royal commission on,
127
.
Marriage, Welsh laws relating to,
24
.
Namzat bezé, an African custom,
42
.
Natural children legitimatized in Scotland,
18
.
New bundling song, a,
81
.
New England, bundling in,
48
.
New song in favor of courting, a,
88
.
New York Supreme Court on bundling,
111
.
N. Am. Indians, chastity of,
41-52
.
courtship among, 41.
Pennsylvania, bundling in,
109
.
Poem against bundling, a,
100
.
Polygamy among ancient nations,
15
.
in Great Britain, 15.
Prostitutes, punishment of in Scotland and Germany,
21
.
Public confession of unlawful cohabitation made in New England,
75
.
records of, 75.
Quest, definition of and origin,
35
.
Queesting,
35
.
Royal commission on marriage laws of Great Britain,
127
.
Savage nations, amatory customs of,
40
.
Scotland, courtship of,
128
.
conjugal infidelity in, 17.
admonition by church of, 133.
Scotch and Irish moral character,
22
.
Scott, Walter, mention of bundling by,
20
.
Stubetegetren in Switzerland,
39
.
Sutherland, son of a hand-fast marriage claims earldom of,
19
.
Switzerland, courtship in,
38
.
Tarrying, common in England,
64
.
in New England, 70.
Texel, bundling in the island of,
36
.
United States, bundling in the,
44
.
Vlie and Wieringen, bundling practiced in islands of,
35
.
Wales, bundling in,
23
.
described by Bingley, 28;
by Barbor, 30;
by Carr, 32;
by Pratt, 25.
chastity in, 115.
Welsh laws relating to marriage,
24
.
Whore on the snow crust, the,
93
.
Wieringen, see Vlie.
Wynet-werth, a Welsh term,
35
.