Bundling; Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America Part 6

among N. A. Indians, 40.

in Switzerland, 38.

Cuckold, no word in Gaelic for, 21.

Customs of courts.h.i.+p, different in the cantons of Switzerland, 39.

Dayaks of Borneo, courts.h.i.+p 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 cla.s.ses in, 127.

Gwent, a district in Wales, 34.

Gwentian Code of Wales, 34.

Hand-fasting, a Scotch custom, 17, 19.

common among all cla.s.ses, 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 courts.h.i.+p 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 beze, 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, chast.i.ty of, 41-52.

courts.h.i.+p among, 41.

Pennsylvania, bundling in, 109.

Poem against bundling, a, 100.

Polygamy among ancient nations, 15.

in Great Britain, 15.

Prost.i.tutes, 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, courts.h.i.+p 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, courts.h.i.+p 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.

chast.i.ty in, 115.

Welsh laws relating to marriage, 24.

Wh.o.r.e on the snow crust, the, 93.

Wieringen, see Vlie.

Wynet-werth, a Welsh term, 35.

FOOTNOTES.

[1] _Caesar_ says, that several brothers, or a father and his sons, would have but one wife among them. _Solinus_, indeed, says that the women in Thule were common, the king having a free choice; and _Dio_ says the Caledonians had wives in common; yet these a.s.sertions may well be disputed. _Strabo_ describes the Irish as extremely gross in this matter; _O'Conner_ says polygamy was permitted; and _Derrick_ tells us they exchanged wives once or twice a year; while _Campion_ says they only married for a year and a day, sending their wives home again for any slight offense.--_Logan's Scottish Gael_, 5th Am. ed., p. 472.

[2] _A History of the Highlands, and of the Highland Clans_, etc. (Jas.