Abercromby, John: on marriage with capture, i, 177 n. 1.Abipones, i, 105;abhor close intermarriage, 126 n. 1;monogamy the rule, i, 143 n. 1;cohabitation with wives in turn, 145;liberty of choice, 212, 213;divorce, 232.Abduction: pretended, i, 182-84;whether leading to free marriage among ancient Germans, 276 n. 2.Adams, Charles Francis: on bundling, ii. 182 and n. 3, 184 and n. 4;confessions of pre-nuptial incontinence, 195-98;confessions in Groton church, 198 n. 2.Adams, Henry: on status of early German woman, i, 257, 260, note;wedding ring, 279, 280.Administration of marriage law: effective in early New England, ii, 126, 127, 143-51.Admonition to the Parliament: quoted, i, 410;Answerto, 411.Adoption: as means of social expansion, i, 13 and n. 3, 26 n. 2.Adultery: according to scriptural teaching, ii, 19, 20;Jewish law, 20 n. 3, 99 n. 2;views of early Fathers, 24, 27;law of Theodosius II., 32;male, not recognized by early Roman law, 32 n. 3;nor by early Teutonic, 35 and n. 5;death penalty for, under Constantine, 32 n. 4;laws of Valentinian and Justinian, 32 n. 4;death penalty for, under early Teutonic law, 36, 37, 38;ground for separation under canon law, ii, 53;for divorce at Reformation, 62 and n. 2;death penalty favored by some reformers, 66, 67;punished by theReformatio legum, 79;Samuel Johnson on, 106;under present English law, 110, 114, 115.—— in the American colonies: death penalty for, ii, 169;this penalty enforced in Massachusetts, 169-71;punished by scarlet letter in Plymouth, 171, 172;also in New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, 172-76;espoused woman may commit, 180, 181;punishment for, in Virginia, ii, 236;New Netherland, 280;Pennsylvania, 319, 320 n. 6, 385, 386;early Massachusetts, male, not ground of divorce, 331, 345 and n. 1: same in Plymouth, 351;death penalty in New Haven, 352;how punished in Massachusetts, ii, 398 n 3.Æthelberht, code of: allows one-sided divorce, ii, 39.Affinity: forbidden degrees of, i, 129, 352 n. 1, 354 n. 5, 390, 391.Afghanistan: wife-capture in, i. 160;wife-purchase, 197;sentiment of love, 248.African aborigines: matrimonial institutions of, i, 33, 34, 107 n. 1;Starcke on, 46;marriage customs in Guinea, 83 n. 4;polyandry of Kafirs, 135 n. 2;rich indulge in polygyny, 146 n. 1;wife-capture rare, 159;symbol of rape, 172;coexistence of rape and purchase, 180;wife-purchase, 193, 194;free marriage, 214;divorce at pleasure, 226 and n. 3, 239;divorce in council, 241.Agde, Council of: allows remarriage after divorce, ii, 39;did not originate spiritual divorce jurisdiction, 49 and nn. 2, 3.Age of consent to carnal knowledge: in the various states and territories, iii,195-203.Age of consent to marriage: under canon law, i, 357-59;Swinburne on, 403 n. 1;in New York province, ii, 287;in the New England states, 395, 396;southern and southwestern states, 428, 429;middle and western states, 471, 472;reform needed, iii,190,191.Age of parental consent to marriage: in the New England States, ii, 396, 397;southern and southwestern states, 429-33;middle and western states, 472, 473;reform needed, iii,191.Agnation: the Roman, i, 11, 12;extent of, according to Maine, 12;whether among Hebrews, 15-17;only element of, among early Aryans, 27, 28;relation of, topatria potestas, 30-32.Ainos: wooing-gifts among, i, 218.Alabama: marriage celebration in, ii. 417 n. 4;age of consent and of parental consent, 428, 429;license bond required when under age, 430;forbidden decrees, 433, 435;void or voidable marriages, 437, 438;miscegenation forbidden, 438;license system, 447;license bond, 448;return, 449;legislative divorce, iii,39,40;judicial divorce,62-64;remarriage,83: residence,85;process,89;common-law marriage,176;age of consent to carnal knowledge,200.Alamanni: wife-purchase among, i, 264 and n. 3.Alaska: marriage celebration in, ii, 463;witnesses, 465;definition, 470;age or consent to marriage, 471;forbidden degrees, 474;marriage certificate, 492;divorce, iii,143,144remarriage,149;residence,157;courts silent as to common-law marriage,182;age of consent to carnal knowledge,202.Albania: bride-price in, i, 197.Alcibiades: prevents Hipparete from getting divorce, ii, 12 n. 3.Aleuts: man's sole right of divorce among, i, 231.Alexander III.: decretal epistle of, to the bishop of Norwich, i, 315, 351.Alfonso the Wise: defines three kinds of secret marriage, i, 347, 348.Alfurese of Minahassa: divorce among, i, 226.Algonquins: abhor close intermarriage, i, 126.Alimony: separate, granted in southern colonies, ii, 368-71;temporary and permanent, in the New England states, iii,28-30;southern and southwestern states,90-95.Altfamilie: of Lippert and Hellwald, i, 60.Amaxosa: divorce among, i, 227.Amazonism: i, 41, 42, 44.Ambrose: on divorce, ii, 24;veil and benediction, i, 294.American aborigines: position of woman, i, 45 and n. 6;temporary marriages and prostitution, 49 and n. 1: Punaluan family among, 68;Ganowánian system of consanguinity, 68, 69 n. 1;totemism, 74;house-communities, 129;monogamy the rule, i, 142, 143 and n. 1;polygyny, when, 145;authorities on matrimonial institutions of, 154-56;wife-capture, 158, 159;symbolical capture, 164-68;marriage by service, 186-88;by a price paid, 190-93;extent of free marriage, 212, 213;wooing-gifts, 219;divorce, 227, 228 and n. 2, 231, 232, 238, 239.American ethnologists: important work of, i, 154.Amira, Karl v.: hisErbenfolgecited, i, 263 n. 4.Amram, D. W.: on Jewish woman's power of divorce, i, 240 n. 4;schools of Hillel and Shammai, ii, 13 n. 2;early Hebrew divorce, 13 n. 4, 14;cited, ii, 152 n. 2.Anaitis, 51 n. 1.Anbury, Lieutenant: on bundling, ii, 184.Ancestor-worship, i, 13 and n. 4, 26 n. 1.Anchieta, J. de: quoted, i, 106 and n. 2.Andaman Islanders, i, 107.Andros, Sir Edmund: wishes to abolish civil marriage, ii, 136;requires license bonds, 136 and n. 2.Anesty, Richard de, i, 351.Angers, Council of: enforces doctrine of indissolubility, ii, 39.Anglican Clergy: have monopoly of legal marriage celebration in colonial Virginia, ii, 228, 230, 231, 232;their power in Maryland, 241-45;North Carolina, 251-59;Georgia, 262.Anglo-Saxons: marriage among, authorities on, i, 257, 258;wife-purchase, 261 n. 2, 262, 263;arrha, or second stage in evolution of the purchase-contract, 267,268;formal contract or third stage, 269-71;gifta, 272-76;rise of self-betrothal, 276-78.(SeeMarriage.)Animals, the lower: the family among, i, 91-102.Annam: marriage with sisters in, i, 125.Annulment of marriage: facility of, under canon law, ii, 56-59.Anselm: tries to check clandestine marriages, i, 313.Aphrodite, i, 51.Aphrodistic hetairism, i, 40-43.Apollonistic father-right, i, 40, 43.Appiacás, i, 143 n. 1.Applegarth, A. C.: quoted, ii, 316, 317, 324 n. 1;on Quaker wedding feasts, 325, 326.Appointed daughter, i, 84 n. 2, 217 n. 2.Arabs: whetherpatria potestasamong, i, 19;matrimonial institutions of, 34;wife-lending, 49;wife-capture, 161, 165;wife-purchase, 195, 196;divorce, 226, 227 and n. 1;effect of wife-purchase on divorce, 246 and n. 1.(SeeIslam, Mohammedans.)Araki, T.: denies wife-capture and wife-purchase among Japanese, i, 172 n. 3.Arbitration of divorce suits in New Netherland, ii, 372-82.Aristotle: on family as social unit, i, 10 nn. 2, 3;bride-price in ancient Greece, 199.Arizona: marriage celebration in, ii, 417 n. 4;what constitutes a legal marriage, 424, 425;age of consent and of parental consent, 428, 429;forbidden degrees, 433;void or voidable marriages, 435 n. 3, 437, 438;miscegenation forbidden, 440;license system, 447;return, 449;judicial divorce, iii,72-74;remarriage, 82;residence, 87;courts silent as to common-law marriage, 181;age of consent to carnal knowledge, 198, 199.Arkansas: marriage celebration in, ii, 417 n. 4;requisites for a legal marriage, 424;marriages of freedmen, 426;marriage a civil contract, 427;age of consent and of parental consent, 428, 429;forbidden degrees, 433, 435 n. 3, 437, 438;miscegenation forbidden, 439;license system, 447;marriage certificate, 451;license bond, 448;return, 449 and n. 1;state registration, 452;judicial divorce, iii,71,72;remarriage,82;residence,87;process,89;alimony,91;common-law marriage,176;age of consent to carnal knowledge,199.Arles: marriage ritual of, i, 311 n. 4.—— council of: on second marriage, ii, 26 and nn. 2, 3.Arnold, S. G.: on divorce in Rhode Island colony, ii, 363, 364, 365.Arrha: among Salian Franks, i, 264 and n. 2;takes place ofweotuma, 266;superseded, 268;asWeinkauf, 270 n. 1;in form of ring, 278 and n. 3, 280, 281, 295, 307.Arsha rite, i, 198, 220.Arunta: sexual customs of, i, 50 n. 2, 75, 76 and n. 3, 170, note.Aryans, the early: two stages in rise of juridical conceptions of, i, 24-26;household among, 26, 27;housewife, 27 n. 2;whether paternal or maternal system, 18-27.(SeeIndia, Hindus.)Aryans and Hindus: works on matrimonial institutions of, i, 3, 4;family among, 26-28 and n. 1;wife-capture, 159, 160, 170-75.(SeeIndia.)Asceticism: influences early Christian conception of marriage, i, 324.Ashantees: remarriage of the woman after divorce not allowed among, i, 245.Ashton, J.: on the Fleet, i, 437 n. 3;Fleet marriages, 440-42, notes;cheapness of, 444 n. 1;elopements with heiresses, 447 n. 2;Keith's marriages, 459 n. 3.Assistants, court of: has divorce jurisdiction in Massachusetts colony, ii, 331, 336.Âsura rite, i, 198.Astell, Mary: herDefense of the Female Sex, iii,237.Athenians: divorce among, i, 239, 240; ii, 3, 12;unfavorable position of woman, 12 n. 3.Atkinson, J. J.: on jealousy as a bar to sexual unions, i, 132, note.Augustine, St.: on confusion of scriptural texts on divorce, ii, 22 n. 2;divorce, 23, 24;indissolubility of marriage, 26, 27;practice of remarriage after divorce, 28 and n. 5;triumph of his teachings in Carolingian empire, 41;death for adultery, 44.Augustus: changes law of divorce, ii, 16;compels repudiation of Livia, 17 n. 4;his conditions regarding divorce, 29 and n. 2.Aulus Gellius: cited, ii, 15 n. 4, 16, note, 17.Australian aborigines: works on matrimonial institutions of, i, 34, 35;authority of father, 46;alleged evidences of former promiscuity, 53 and n. 3;these rejected by Crawley, 54;class systems, 66, 70, 71-76;extent of female kinship among, 116;elopement and symbolical capture, 169 and n. 3;coexistence of rape and purchase, 181 and n. 3, 182;wives by exchange, 185, 186.Avery, John: his offenses, ii, 290, 291.Avoidance: custom of, i, 187 and n. 2.Aztecs: divorce among, i, 237, 238 n. 1;remarriage of the divorced couple forbidden, 247;divorce infrequent, 248.Babylonians: alleged sacred prostitution among, 51 and n. 1;wife-purchase, 199, 200;high ideal of family life, 221 n. 3.Bachofen, J. J.: his works, i, 33;character of his writings, 39 and n. 2;hisMutterrechtanalyzed, 40-43;his disciples and adversaries, 43;on expiation for marriage, 50.Bacon, L.: cited, ii, 130 n. 2, 131 n. 4.Bancroft, George: on slavery in Massachusetts, ii, 216;slave baptisms, 221.Bancroft, H. H.: on symbolical rape among Mosquito, i, 166;the Oleepa, 167, 168;California Indians, 172 n. 2;on the Kenai, 187, 188;Columbians, 238.Bangor: marriage ritual of, i, 311 n. 4.Banjuns: status of divorced woman among, i, 245.Banns: required by Archbishop Walter and by Innocent III., i, 314;institution of, 359-61;under law of 1653, 425, 426;disliked, 441 and n. 2, 445 and n. 3, 457, 458;under Hardwicke Act, 458, 462;present English law, 466-69.—— in early New England, ii, 131 and n. 4;in eighteenth century, 142;in Plymouth, 144;Massachusetts colony, 145;New Hampshire province, 147;Connecticut colony, 147 and n. 5;dual system in Rhode Island colony, 148-51;in colonies of Virginia, 229, 230, 233;and Maryland, 240, 243;in North Carolina colony, ii, 251, 255;New Netherland, 268-70, 272, 273, 277;New York province, 285-87, 294, 297;New Jersey, 309.—— survival of the optional system of, in the New England states, ii, 401-3;in the southern and southwestern states, 441-45;Delaware and Ohio, 482-84;defects, iii,186.Banyai: bride-price among, i, 194.Baptism of slaves: the problem of, ii, 220-23.Barebone's Parliament: enacts the civil-marriage ordinance of 1653, i, 418, 428.Barrington, Lord: on the Hardwicke Act, i, 452 n. 1.Basil: favors remarriage after divorce, ii, 28 and n. 2.Bastardy: cases of, in early Massachusetts, ii, 191 n. 3.Bataks: divorce among, i, 229.Bath, Lord: drafts marriage bill, i, 448.Bavaria: divorce rate of, iii,212.Bavarians: wife-purchase among, i, 264 and n. 3.Beamishv.Beamish, i, 318-20.Beauty: fades early among barbarians, i, 146 and n. 5;standards of, 207 n. 5.Bebel, A.: views of, as to marriage and the family, iii,234,235.Beckwith, Paul: on divorce among the Dakotas, i, 232 and n. 3."Bedding" the bride and groom in New England, ii, 140.Bedouins: symbolical rape among, i, 165, 172;effects of divorce, 246.Beeck, Johannis van, and Maria Verleth: case of, ii, 274-77.Beeckman, W.: his letter to Stuyvesant, ii, 277."Beena" marriage, i, 16 and n. 3;as modified polyandry, 80 n. 3;Tylor on, 114, 115 n. 1.Belcher, Sir E.: on Andaman Islanders, ii, 107.Belgium: divorce rate of, iii,212.Belknap, J.: on slavery in New England, ii, 217 n. 1, 224.Bellv.Bell, iii,207.Bellingham, Governor Richard: self-giftaof, ii, 210, 211; iii,173.Benedict Levita: enforces doctrine of indissolubility, ii, 44.Benediction: the primitive Christian, i, 291, 293-95, notes, 296 n. 1, 297 n. 1;in tenth century, 299, 308;required by Theodore and Anselm, 313;by Council of Carthage, 313 n. 2.Beni Amer: divorced woman among, must wait three months before remarriage, i, 245 n. 5.Bennecke, H.: on adultery among early Teutons, ii, 36 n. 1;the penitentials, 44 n. 3.Bennett, E. H.: cited, iii,178n. 3;favors constitutional amendment,222n. 3.Berbers of Dongola: remarriage of divorced couple among, i, 247 n. 2.Bernhöft, F.: works of, i, 4;cited, 8 n. 1;on danger of inference from written laws, 9 n. 2;rejects mother-right for Aryans, 20;criticises Leist and Dargun, 23 and n. 4;on Roman agnation, 31 n. 5;denies invariable sequence of mother-right and father-right, 55;on wife-capture and marriage, 178 n. 1; 182 n. 3; 184 n. 3;coemptio, 199 n. 5;wife-capture among Germans, 258 n. 1.Bertillon, J.: on the marriage rate, iii,214;influence of legislation on the divorce rate,216;of restrictions on remarriage,219n. 1.Betrothal: the old English and early German, i, 258-72;forms of, among the Burgundians, 265 n. 2;evolution of, 266-69;English ritual of tenth century, 259 n. 1, 269-71;self-betrothal, 276-81;repetition of, in the nuptial ceremony, 283-85;Swabian ritual of the twelfth century, 284, 285;Roman, 291, 292 and n. 3;of the canon law based on the German, 293 and n. 1;no ritual of, under Roman law, 294.(SeeBeweddung.)—— law and theory regarding, among the reformers, i, 371-86.—— or pre-contract, in New England, ii, 179-81;survival of thebeweddung, 180;a kind of half-marriage, 180, 181;influences bundling, 185, 186;probable cause of pre-nuptial fornication, 186-99;influenced by Jewish law, 199, 200;similar effects of published contract in New Netherland, 271.(SeeBeweddung.)Bettbeschreitung, i, 272 n. 4.Beust, J.: on divorce, ii, 62;favors death for adultery, 66.Beweddung: the betrothal or sale-contract, i, 220;among the old English and other Teutons, 258-72;phases of evolution of, 266-69;old English ritual, 269-71, 302;relative importance of, as compared with thegifta, 273-76;self-beweddung, 276-86.(SeeBetrothal.)—— regains original importance after German Reformation, i, 373, 374 and n. 5;also in New England, ii, 180.Beyer, Caspar: case of, i, 374 n. 5.Beza, T.: on divorce, ii, 62;favors death for adultery, 66.Bibliographical footnotes, the chief: family as basis of state, i, 10 n. 1;patria potestas, 11 n. 2;"beena" marriage, 16 n. 3;ancestor-worship, 13 n. 4, 26 n. 1;Aryan or Indic family, 28 n. 1;definitions, 44 n. 1;Bachofen, 39 n. 2;original communism, 46 n. 5, 47 nn. 1, 2;horde, 47 n. 3;prostitution and licentious customs, 48, 49, notes;proof-marriages, 49 n. 2;wife-lending, 50 n. 1;jus primae noctis, 51 n. 2;Australian class systems, 76 n. 3;totemism, 79 n. 2;polyandry, 80 n. 2;niyoga, 84 n. 2;McLennan's views, 86 n. 2;female infanticide, 86 n. 1;female kinship, 110 n. 2;couvade, 112 n. 4;polygyny, 141 n. 2;wife-capture, 156 n. 1;form of capture, 164 n. 2;wife-purchase, 185 n. 2;wife-purchase among American aborigines, 193 n. 2;sexual selection, 205 n. 4;child-betrothal, 209 n. 1;choice of woman in courtship, 215 n. 4;marriage contract among Babylonians and Assyrians, 221 n. 3;Arabian divorce, 227 n. 1;Zeitehen, 235 n. 1;wife-capture among Germans, 258 nn. 1, 2;weotuma, and equivalent terms, 259 n. 3;tutelage of women among Germans, 259 n. 4;nature of the betrothal, 260 n. 1;old English marriage, 263 n. 4;on marriage of Chlodwig and Chlotilde, 264 n. 2;arrha, 266 n. 1;morning-gift and dower, 269 n. 2;nuptials of widows, 273 n. 1;Sohm's theory, 275 n. 2;ring and kiss, 278 n. 3, 279 n. 1;acceptance of Roman marriage forms by early church, 291 n. 2;consensusin Roman marriage, 292 nn. 2, 3;sponsalia, 293 n. 1;marriage at church door, 300 n. 1;early Fathers on marriage, 325 n. 2;rise of sacerdotal celibacy, 328 n. 1;immorality of mediæval clergy, 332 n. 1, 388 n. 4;Lombard's theory ofconsensus, 336 n. 6;clandestine marriage, 346 n. 3;forbidden degrees, 352 n. 1;impediments after the Reformation, 391 nn. 1, 2, 3;nature of marriage according to English Reformers, 394 n. 1;parish registration during the Commonwealth, 426 n. 3;Hardwicke Act, 449 nn. 1, 2;Scotch marriage law, 473 n. 2;Jewish divorce, ii, 12 n. 4, 13 n. 4;Roman divorce, 14 n. 3, 15 n. 4;scriptural law of divorce, 19 n. 2;views of early Fathers on divorce, 23 n. 1;penitentials, 44 n. 3;Protestant opinions on divorce, 62 n. 2;Wittenberg consistory, 70 n. 4;Reformatio legum, 77 n. 4;Foljambe's case, 82 n. 2;Lyndhurst's Act, 95 n. 5;deceased wife's sister question, 98 n. 2;parliamentary divorce, 102 n. 2, 103 n. 3;present English divorce law, 109 nn. 1, 2;clerks of the writs, 146 n. 1;death penalty for adultery, 169 n. 3, 170 n. 1;marriage and divorce laws of French Revolution, iii,168n. 2,169n. 1;age of consent law reform,196n. 1;divorce rate in Europe,213n. 1;divorces in France,216n. 4;disintegration of the family,225n. 1;college women and marriage,244n. 2;effect of woman's new activities,240n. 4,247n. 2;woman's rights literature,237n. 4,238n. 2;early writings on woman and marriage,236n. 2.Bibliographical headnotes: patriarchal theory, i, 3-7;horde and mother-right. 33-38;pairing family, 89, 90;rise of marriage contract, 152-55;early history of divorce, 224;old English wife-purchase, 253-58;lay marriage contract accepted by the church, 287-91;the church develops and administers matrimonial law, 321-24;Protestant conception of marriage, 364-70;rise of civil marriage, 404-8;divorce and separation under English and ecclesiastical law, ii, 3-11;civil marriage in the New England colonies, 121-25;marriage in the southern colonies, 227, 228;marriage in the middle colonies, 264-66;divorce in the colonies, 328, 329;matrimonial legislation, 388;divorce legislation, iii,3;problems of marriage and the family,161-67.Bidembach, F.: on divorce, ii, 68.Biener, F. A.: hisBeiträgecited, i, 290.Bierling, E. R.: onconsensus, i, 292 n. 3;ecclesiastical marriage, 299 n. 4;replies to Scheurl, 340 n. 1.Bigamy: first statute for, ii, 83 n. 2, 84 n. 1.—— frequent in early New England, ii, 158, 159;in Massachusetts, 347;how punished under Duke's law, 286 and n. 1;under Dongan law, 295.Bingham, J.: on marriage before a priest, i, 297 n. 1.Birds: family among, i, 95, 96.Birth rate: falling, iii,242,243.Bishop, J. P.: on Foljambe's case, ii, 82 n. 2;on effect of divorce for adultery, 93 n. 3;quoted, 262 n. 5, 366, 367, 370;hisMarriage, Divorce, and Separation, iii,27.Black George of Servia, i, 190 n. 1.Blackstone. Sir W.: on religious celebration, i, 314 n. 4;witnesses in civil law courts, ii, 107 n. 2.Bliss, W. R.: on rum and slavery, ii, 220 nn. 3, 5.Blood-feud: a restraint on wife-capture, i, 178 and n. 2;check on divorce, 249.Boaz, Franz: on the marriage customs of the Kwakiutl, i, 190, 191, 219 n. 3.Bocca: divorce in, i, 244 n. 2.Bodio, L.: on the marriage rate, iii,214.Boehmer, G. W.: on folk-laws regarding divorce, ii, 36 n. 3;on jurisdiction in Carolingian era, 50 n. 1.Boehmer, J. H.: attacks Luther's doctrine of betrothal, i, 373 n. 3.Bogos: forbidden degrees among, i, 126.Bohemians: wife-purchase among, i, 159 n. 8.Bona gratiadivorce, ii, 31, 33.Bonaks: divorce among, i, 239.Bond, J.: on the Hardwicke Act, i, 449, 450, 451 n. 2.Bond: required of ministers to celebrate marriages, in Virginia, ii, 412, 413;West Virginia, 413;formerly in Louisiana, 420;Kentucky, iii,188.Bonwick, James: on divorce among Tasmanians, i, 232 and n. 5.Bosnia: effects of divorce in, i, 242.Bosom-right, i, 187 n. 1.Botsford, G. W.: hisAthenian Constitution, i, 7;on theritaconception, 25 n. 3;on agnation, 29 n. 4.Boyd, Rev. John, ii, 248.Bozman, J. L.: quoted, ii, 239.Bracton: on divorce and dower, ii, 93.Bradford, Governor William: on origin of civil marriage in Plymouth, ii, 128, 129.Bradford, John: on nature of marriage, i, 398.Braintree, Mass.: church confessions in, ii, 197, 198.Braknas, the Moorish: effects of divorce among, i, 244 n. 2.Brand, J.: on Danishhand-fasting, i, 276 n. 3.Branner, J. C.: translations by, acknowledged, i, 105 nn. 1, 4.Brautjagd, i, 175 and n. 1.Brautlauf, i, 175 and n. 1.Brazilian aborigines: marriage by service among, i, 186 and n. 6;free divorce, 228 n. 2.Breach of promise suits: in early New England, ii, 200-203;in New Netherland, 281, 282.Brehm, A. C.: on the social life of birds, i, 95, 96 and n. 3.Brenz, J.: on divorce, ii, 62;favors death for adultery, 66;inclines to concubinage rather than allow full divorce, 71.Brereton, Sir William: on marriage in the Netherlands, i, 409 and n. 3.Brett, Rev. D., ii, 248.Brevard: quoted, ii, 261, 263, note;on the marriage celebration in South Carolina, 416.Bridal veil, i, 295 and n. 3.Bride-mass, i, 291, 296, 297, 299, 309.Bride-price, i, 189-201, 210-23.Bride-stealing: sham, in New England, ii, 140, 141.(SeeWife-capture.)Bride-wooer, i, 197 and n. 6, 198.Brissonius, B.: on the marriage ring, i, 279 n. 1.Brittanie, James, and Mary Latham: executed for adultery, ii, 170 and n. 3.Brougham, H.: his marriage law for Scotland, i, 473 n. 2.Browne, G. F.: on remarriage of divorced persons, ii, 112 n. 2.Browne, W. H.: quoted, ii, 242 n. 1.Brun, S. J.: cited, iii,169n. 1,216n. 4.Brunner, H.: on wife-purchase, i, 260 n. 1.Bryce, James: quoted, iii,204n. 1,213;criticised,221;social morality in America,252.Bucer, Martin: Cartwright's criticism of, i, 411;Milton on, 411 n. 2;vicious effects of canonical doctrine of divorce, ii, 60 n. 3;liberal views on divorce, 65;casuistry in favoring divorce for desertion, 74 n. 3;doctrines stated, 75, 86.Buckstaff, F. G.: on status of early German woman, i, 260 n. 1;wife-purchase, 263 n. 4.Bugenhagen, J.: writes earliest Protestant marriage ritual, 375 n. 2;on divorce, ii, 62;favors death for adultery, 66.Buginese: divorce among, i, 226, 241 n. 6.Bulgaria: effects of divorce in, i, 242.Bullinger, H.: quoted, i, 349;cited, 375 n. 3, 398, 399;liberal views on divorce, ii, 64;hisChristen State, 72, 73.Bundling: in New York, ii, 181;Holland, 182;New England, 182-85;influenced by pre-contract, 185,186;New Netherland, 271, 272, 279;Pennsylvania, 272.Bunny, E.: on divorce, ii, 81 and n. 3.Buntingv.Lepingwell, i, 376 n. 2.Burgundians: wife-purchase among, i, 265.Burma: proof-marriages in, i, 49;marriage with sister allowed, 125;freedom of widows, 209 n. 6;free marriage, 215;free divorce, 226.Burn, J. S.: on the kiss at the nuptials, i, 279, note;parish registers, 361, 362 and note;parish records during the Commonwealth, i, 426;Peter Symson's hand-bill, 438 n. 2;Fleet registers, 445, 446;on marriages at Savoy, 460, note;Charles James Fox and the Hardwicke Act, 463 n. 2.Burnaby, A.: on tarrying, ii, 183 n. 5.Burnet, Bishop G.: on Henry VIII.'s divorce and the Northampton case, ii, 23 n. 1.Burras, Ann: marries John Laydon, ii, 235, 236.Bushmans: marriage by service among, i, 189;whether free marriage among, 214.Cahyapós, i, 107.Caird, Mona: on effect of patriarchal rule on woman's constitution, iii,241;