There can be no doubt
whatever that the principle is one which reason, morality and religion
must equally approve.
[4] Skene's _Highlanders of Scotland_, vol. I, chap. vii, 166, 167.
[5] In _Scottish Ballads and Songs_, by James Maidment, Edinburgh,
MDCCCLIX, under the title of _Luckidad's Garland_, p. 134, is a
remarkable picture of the old and new times in Scotland, eighty or
ninety years ago, three of the twenty-four verses of which the ballad is
composed, being descriptive of something akin to _bundling_. In a London
edition of _Hudibras_, also, published in 1811, is a note to line 913,
of Part I, Canto I. As both of these extracts, however, are somewhat too
_broad_ for our pages, we content ourselves with simply referring
thereto. In the same category, also, is the definition, in _Bailey's Old
English Dictionary_, of the term _free bench_, as prevailing in the
manors of East and West Embourn, Chaddleworth in the county of Berks,
Tor in Devonshire, and other places of the west.
[6] _History of Wales_ (by B. B. Woodward, B.A., London, 1853), p. 320;
who adds, also, p. 186, the following:
"The laws which treat of the violation of the marriage bond and those
which relate to chastity generally, recognize a degree of laxity
respecting female honor, and, yet more remarkably, an absence of
feminine delicacy, such as could scarcely be paralleled amongst the most
uncivilized people now.
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