Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	husband_n	sister_n	wife_n	31,415	5	10.2119	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69916	A voyage to the East-Indies giving an account of the Isles of Madagascar, and Mascareigne, of Suratte, the coast of Malabar, of Goa, Gameron, Ormus : as also A treatise of the distempers peculiar to the eastern countries : to which is annexed an abstract of Monsieur de Rennefort's History of the East-Indies, with his propositions for the improvement of the East-India Company / written originally in French by Mr. Dellon ...; Relation d'un voyage des Indes Orientales. English	Dellon, Gabriel, b. 1649.; M. C. Treatise of the distempers relating in particular to the eastern countries.; Crull, J. (Jodocus), d. 1713?; Rennefort, Souchu de, ca. 1630-ca. 1690. Histoire des Indes orientales. English. Selections.; Dellon, Gabriel, b. 1649. Traité des maladies particulières aux pays orientaux et dans la route et de leurs remèdes. English.	1698 (1698)	Wing D943A; ESTC R22348	179,184	326

consequence When the King of Cananor goes abroad he is either carried upon the Back of an Elephant How their Kings and Princes appear in publick or else in a Palanquin being Adorned with a Crown of Massive Gold upon his Head made not unlike a Ducal Bonnet This Crown weighs something above 200 Guineas in Gold and is always given by the New Governor-General immediately after his Elevation to that Dignity the Crown of the last Deceased King being to be reposited in the Treasury of the chief Pagod or Pagan Temple The King is surrounded by his Guards composed out of the Nahers under the sound of Drums and Trumpets and other Warlike Instruments Some Officers of his Court march at some distance before the Guards whose Business is to make way and to cry the King is coming All the Princes if they go abroad by themselves as also the Princesses are served with the same Magnificence If the Governour or Chief Minister of State be a Prince he goes abroad in the same Pomp in respect of his high extraction not of the dignity of his Office But if he be not of the Royal Family he is only attended by his Guards without the sounding of any Instruments of War neither is he preceeded by any Officers who clear the way before him CHAP. XXXII Of some other Customs of the Malabars IT is sufficiently known that in all Political Constitutions Princes are considered as the Heads of the Government but among these Pagans their Kings are in all matters relating to Religion subject to the Nambouri's and Bramans Before I speak of their Marriages How they derive their Pedigree it is to be observed that the Children of the Malabars derive their Pedigree from their Mothers and that consequently they are counted to be of the same Race not of that of their Father's the reason of which we shall have occasion to mention anon Princesses are Married here to the Nambouri's or Bramans What Rules they observe in their Marriages and the Children begotten betwixt them are Princes and lawful Successors of the Crown each in their Rank But as there is not a sufficient number of Princesses to furnish all the Nambouri's and Bramans with Wives so they are allowed to Marry Women of the same Rank with themselves and the Children begotten betwixt them are either Nambouri's or Bramans according to the Quality of their Mothers The Princes Marry the Daughters of the Nahers but never any Princesses and the Children begotten betwixt them belong to the Race of the Nahers and not of the Princes The Nahers are obliged to Marry one of the same Quality or almost of the next degree to themselves to wit of the Minats or Cheti The rest of the several Lines have the same liberty to Marry one of their own Rank or one degree below themselves but as we said before the Women must not debase themselves in the least degree in their Marriage under pain of Death The Malabar Princes the Nambouri's and Bramans as also the chiefest among the Nahers have commonly but one Wife and they endeavour by all obliging means in the World to engage them to be faithful to them and not to look out for another Husband which is not in their power to prevent by any other than gentle means this liberty being allowed to the Malabar Women provided they don 't Marry below themselves For the Pagan Women in these parts contrary to what is practised among the Mahometans enjoy according to the Custom of their Country this Prerogative to Marry as many Husbands as they please and what is the most surprizing is that all this is done without the least disorder or Jealousie for the Man when he comes to pay his Duty to his Lady leaves his Arms at the Chamber-door as a sure sign to the rest that the place is taken up and that they must stay his leisure before they can enter Their Marriage-engagements are only during pleasure and when they are satisfied with one another they part as freely as they met The ordinary present which the New Married Men make to their Wives is a piece of Linen Cloth wherewith to cover themselves It is from this Custom of Marrying so many Husbands and to abandon them at pleasure that their Children owe their Pedigree to their Mothers it being impossible to know their true Fathers neither are the Sons here considered as the next Heirs but the Nephews but they must be the Sister's Sons The Mahometans tho' they keep a most watchful Eye over their Wives nevertheless do they observe this Custom in respect of Succession or Inheritance all over Malabar They Marry their Daughters for the most part at 12 Years of Age and there are abundance among them who bear Children before that Age tho' they are generally but very small which may perhaps be Attributed to their being Married at so tender an Age. Widwives are unknown in these parts those of a more advanced Age supply this defect in a Country where they are Delivered with much ease in Comparison to what is done in Europe For the Malabar as well as the African Women are no sooner Deliver'd but they wash themselves and take no further care of their Babes than to give them Suck The Malabar Women are for the generality well shap'd and not ill Featured but the little ones are in greater esteem than the tall ones the privilege of Marrying so many Husbands as they please exempts them from that most cruel Custom of burning themselves with the Dead Carcasses of their Husbands to which the rest of the Indian Women are Subject CHAP. XXXIII Of their Habits and Houses AS to their Habits there is scarce any difference betwixt the Men and the Women in Malabar they wear their Hair which is Black very long and go Naked as far as the middle even the Princes themselves who if they sometimes make use of a small Vest always leave it open before They wear about their Middle a piece of Cloth which comes down as low as their Knees and never make use of Shooes or Stockings In other Countries Ladies of Quality endeavour to out-vie one another by their rich Gold and Silver Stuffs but the quite contrary is practised among the Malabars where these Stuffs are not worn but by the meaner sort the Ladies of the Nahers and all the rest of a Superiour Rank wearing nothing but fine White Callico The richer sort wear Girdles of Gold and Bracelets of Silver or Horn in which they take all most particular Pride The Women never adorn themselves with any Jewels unless it be a Ring Both Men and Women have holes in their Ears which are so long that they hang down quite to their Shoulders because they are so careful in continually enlarging the holes that you may thrust a Fist into them which is occasioned by the weight of the Pendants who sometimes exceed two Ounces some of them wear Golden Chains but these being the peculiar marks of