> On Jun 26, 2016, at 6:54 PM, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 24/6/16, Bipin Gupta, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> One ridiculous law was that a newly married >> Scott couple had to send the bride for the first night to the British >> Governor. What a shame. > > I didn't know about that one - hot dog. > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty
http://www.britannica.com/topic/droit-du-seigneur > Droit du seigneur, (French: “right of the lord”), a feudal right said to have > existed in medieval Europe giving the lord to whom it belonged the right to > sleep the first night with the bride of any one of his vassals. The custom is > paralleled in various [other] primitive societies,… Note: not English, but rather feudal Europe, and of course particularly France. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
