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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	faith_n	ground_n	pillar_n	2,365	5	9.9071	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42526	Matrimonial customs, or, The various ceremonies and divers ways of celebrating weddings practised amongst all the nations in the whole world done out of French.; Cérémonies nuptiales de toutes les nations. English	Gaya, Louis de.	1687 (1687)	Wing G401; ESTC R40885	39,619	108

Qualifications of her Suitor her Father presents his Daughter to him speaking these words I give thee my Daughter for to honour thee that she may be thy Wife for to have the half of thy Bed the Key of thy Doors with the third part of thy Mony and other Goods moveable and immoveable At the day assigned she is conducted to Church with many Torches done about with Silk stuffs of several Colours The Solemnity being over she is handed Home by her Bridegroom But before she may bed with him she must go to the Stoves or hot Baths many Maids going before her and as many Married Women accompanying her but before they come thither they have made great Provision of Strong Beer or of Wine in that place for to refresh the Women in the Bath lest being overcome with the Heat they should faint wherefore they recruit their strength with eating tosted Bread dipt in some of the foresaid Liquors which are sweetned with Cinamon and Sugar When they come out of their Baths they wear every one of them a Garland of Rue upon their Heads as for the Maids they go to Supper with the Bride The Gentlemen usually marry Women of their Rank and Quality As for Tradesmen and Mechanicks they commonly present the Bride with Swine Sheep or Cowes but they present the Bridegroom with some Colt Dog Cat or Goose In Livonia when a Maid is led to Church to be married they crown her with a very high Crown of Silver guilded and all the Women and Maids march before her covered with long plated red Mantles which reach from their Heads to their very Heels CHAP. IV. Nuptial Rites and Ceremonies used amongst Evangelical Protestants Having treated of the Ceremonies which those Protestants of Luthers perswasion do use at their Marriages it now remaineth that I should give some account of the Customs and Solemnities performed at the Weddings of Evangelical Protestants And first I say that by Evangelical Protestants I mean the English Dutch Switzers and many other People which do not pin their faith upon the Church's or Popes Sleeve but rejecting all vain Traditions and Novelties ground their belief upon the Pillar of Truth and Gospel verity As for the English their Ceremonies are so generally practised throughout this Kingdom and consequently so well known that I will pass them over in silence least I should seem to light a Candle at Noon-day wherefore I come to the Dutch. When the parties are all agreed then they send for the Minister who betrotheth them one to the other and then they give them drink every one in their Glass asunder He that fills the Drink takes the two Glasses and mingles the Wine of one with the other he presents the Glass of the Bridegroom to the Bride and that of the Bride to the Bridegroom After they have drunk the future Bridegroom doth present his betrothed Bride a Ring But before they may marry it is requisite that the Minister make Publication of their Marriage three Sundays consecutively lest there be amongst them any Impediment or other Engagement After which publication they may lawfully marry Then at the day appointed the Bridegroom resorts to the Church with his Parents and Relations the Bride also with a Garland of Flowers upon the hinder part of her Head is conducted thither by two Men or two Young Bachelors of her near Relations many Maids with married Women of Relations and Guests following her thither When she comes out of the Church she is led to her Bridegrooms House by the same Persons The Widdows which marry again may not wear a Garland upon their heads but only a large Nosegay in their Bosoms and are led to Church by two Widdows of their near Relations In Friezland the men of that Country did not at all regard the Quality or Portion of their Women but only their Handsomness and good Morality so that many Gentlemen and rich Merchants did marry vertuous comely Women although they were never so poor But now adays the case is altered for they not only regard their Quality and Descent but also expect a competency of Wealth answerable to their Estates The Bride wearing a Crown upon her head and accompanied with a long train of Maids goes to Church where the solemnity of Marriage being celebrated they return to her Fathers house where they are feasted The Guests seldom present the Bride with any Money But the Brides and Bridegrooms Relations come very liberally to offer her their Presents whereof the Bridegroom takes good notice The Feast being ended the Musicians begin to play on several Instruments and then every one dances in order On the next day all the Guests resort to the same place and the new married Woman presenting every one of them with a glass of the best Wine or of some other aromatical Liquor she dismisses them with honour thanking them for their Civility and kindness And this she does to the end that she may make it appear that she is now become a Houshold Wife In Hungary Bachellors never marry with Widdows although never so rich because they are perswaded that if any Bachellor marries one who is not a Virgin he shall never enjoy any Prosperity in this World wherefore if any amongst them did discover that the Women which they have married have plaid any Legerdemain with others before Marriage they would put them to a cruel Death As for the Lords of that Country they usually marry their Children very young and many times as they ly in their Cradles And this is done on purpose to entertain good correspondence and Friendship amongst Honourable Families and when the Children have attained to ripeness of Age they are obliged to consummate their Marriage lest by their refusal they should procure their Parents implacable enmitie the Sequels whereof might prove very dangerous and tragical In Scotland formerly and in the days of Popish Idolatry the Brides did lay down their Propira Feminea before their Lairds of the Mannour who did shake their Hair-bags on the first night after the Solemnization of the Marriage But since the Light of the Gospel did shine bright in that Kingdom that Barbarous Custome hath been exploded wherefore the Brides do not now pay their Marks in specie but only by way of Exchange the Bridegroom paying half a Mark to his Landlord for that Right and that Right is now called the Womens Marks The Irish in their Marriages I mean those who are partakers of the English Civility use the same decent Nuptial Ceremonies as the English do But as for the Popish wild Irish they are so Barbarous and Brutish that they do not deserve to be mentioned here CHAP. V. The Rites and Nuptial Ceremonies of the Grecians BEfore the Grecians Marriages the future Bride doth openly shew what she is able to bring to her future Bridegroom the Bridegroom also is to declare the full extent of his Estate and that is done in a spacious Room upon a Table the Men sitting