Category: History - Other
"I find by all historians, whether ancient or modern, whom I consulted in searching for this work, the fact well recorded, and established beyond all controversy, that the Yankee nation are a set of talking, guessing, swapping and _bundling_ sons of women."
"From the time of Jack Cade," says he, "to Lord George Gordon, and down to the present day, neither your _grave_ or _gay_ authorities on the subject of _bundling_ and _tarrying_...
4. Chapter 4Since this work went to press we have been favored, by one of our antiquarian friends in Massachusetts, with a copy of another poetical blast against the practice of bundling. I...
5. Chapter 5So after all that has been said of the practice of bundling in our country, by foreign writers, travelers, and reviewers--after all the reproach that has been heaped upon us, no...
2. Chapter 2In feudal times, in the last part of the fourteenth century, it became the practice for the vassals, or feudatories, to send their sons to be educated in the family of the suzer...
1. Chapter 1"I find by all historians, whether ancient or modern, whom I consulted in searching for this work, the fact well recorded, and established beyond all controversy, that the Yanke...
6. Chapter 6[12] In this connection we may give the following extract from _Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales_, etc., etc., printed by command of his late Majesty King William IV, under...