Medieval Welsh divorce: 'Should her husband be leprous, or have fetid breath, or be incapable of marital duties; if on account of one of these three things she leave her husband, she is to have the whole of her property' from Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Swnio’n ddifyr nos fory ar Zoom #MedievalWelshLaw #CyfraithHywel

Be careful who you kiss today.
‘Whoever shall kiss the wife of another man, let him pay her the fourth part of her sarhad; and in like manner for using his fingers, unless it be through rope pulling, or at a carousel’ 😘
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Whoever shall sue the chief huntsman, let him seek, on the legal day, to overtake him in his bed, before putting on one boot; for he is under no obligation to answer, unless he be so found: and that legal day is May Day.
Peniarth 37 f.12r-v #MedievalWelshLaw #MayDay
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