Note 1062 — APPENDIX I. AN ESSAY ON THE ANCIENT MINSTRELS IN ENGLAND.
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This old feudal custom of marrying an heiress to the knight who should vanquish all his opponents in solemn contest, &c. appears to be burlesqued in the Turnament of Totenham (see vol. ii. book i. No. 4), as is well observed by the learned author of Remarks, &c. in Gent. Mag. for July, 1794, p. 613.