{"id":117,"date":"2003-08-27T13:27:26","date_gmt":"2003-08-27T17:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/08\/27\/some-customs-we-can-dispense-with\/"},"modified":"2003-08-27T13:27:26","modified_gmt":"2003-08-27T17:27:26","slug":"some-customs-we-can-dispense-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/08\/27\/some-customs-we-can-dispense-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Customs We Can Dispense With"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a133'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sallie.rutgers.edu\/~triggs\/SPECTATOR\/bailey\/index.html\">Bailey&#8217;s<\/a> sez:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFREE-<i>Bench<\/i>, is that estate in copy-hold lands, which the wife hath after the death of her husband, for her dower, according to the custom of the manor: different manors have different customs, as in the manors of East and West Embourn, in the county of Berks, if a customary tenant die, his wife shall have for her free bench all his copy-hold lands, <i>dum sola &amp; casta fuerit<\/i> [while she be single &amp; chaste -d.]; but if she commit incontinency, she forfeits her estate: but if she will come into court riding backwards on a black ram, with his tail in her hand, and say the following words, the steward is bound by the custom to restore her to her free-bench.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>Here I am,<\/i><br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>Riding upon a black ram,<\/i><br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>Like a whore as I am;<\/i><br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>And for my<\/i> crincum crancum,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>Have lost my<\/i> bincum bancum,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>And for my tail&#8217;s game,<\/i><br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>Have done this wordly shame;<\/i><br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>Therefore I pray you Mr. Steward,<\/i><br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>Let me have my land again.<\/i>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bailey&#8217;s sez: FREE-Bench, is that estate in copy-hold lands, which the wife hath after the death of her husband, for her dower, according to the custom of the manor: different manors have different customs, as in the manors of East and West Embourn, in the county of Berks, if a customary tenant die, his wife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}