er. Marriages. No
Wooing The Bridegroom goes to the Brides house. How the
bridegroom carries home his Bride. A Ceremony of Marriage. Man
and Wife may part at pleasure. Men and Women change till they
can please themselves. Women sometimes have two Husbands. Women
unclean. Privileges of Men above Women. Privileges of
Women. They often destroy New-born Infants, But seldom a
First-born. Their Names. They are ambitious of high Titles.

CHAP. VIII.

Of their Employments and Recreations.

Their Trade. Work, not discreditable to the best
Gentleman. How they geld their Cattle. How they make
Glew. Their Manufactures. How they make Iron. How they make
Butter. Shops in the City. Prices of Commodities. Or their
Measures. Their Weights. Measures bigger than the Statute
punishable; but less, not: And why. Of their Coin. Of their
Play. A Play or a Sacrifice: For the filthiness of it forbid
by the King. A cunning Stratagem of an Officer. Tricks and
Feats of Activity. At leisure times they meet and discourse
of Newes. Drunkenness abhorred. Their eating Betel-Leaves. How
they make Lime.

CHAP. IX.

Of their Lawes and Language.

Their Lawes. Lands descend. In case Corn receives dammage by
a Neighbours Cattel. The loss of letting out Land to Till. The
great Consideration for Corn borrowed. A Debt becomes double in
two years. If the Debtor pay not his Debt, he is lyable to be
a Slave for it. Divers other Lawes and Customes. For deciding
Controversies. Swearing in the Temples, The manner of swearing
in hot Oyl. How they exact. Fines. Of their Language. Titles
given to Women according to their qualities. Titles given to
Men. No difference between a Country-man and a Courtier for
Language. Their Speech and manner of Address is courtly and
becoming. Their Language in their Address to the King. Words of
form and Civility. Full of Words and Complement. By whom they
swear. Their way of railing and scurrility. Proverbs. Something
of their Grammar. A Specimen of their Words. Their Numbering.

CHAP. X.

Concerning their Learning, Astronomy and Art Magick.

Of their Learning. Their Books and Arts. How they learn
to write. How they make and write a Book. The Priests
write Books of Bonna. The Kings Warrants how wrapped
up. They write upon two sorts of Leaves. Their Skill in
Astronomy. The