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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART III
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For it is lawful and common with them for two Brothers to keep house together with one Wife, and the Children do acknowledge and call both fathers.
[Women unclean] So long as the Women have their Infirmities or Flowers upon them, they are accounted very unclean, insomuch that the very house is polluted in that degree that none will approach near it.

And even she her self cares not to conceal it, but calls out to them that come near, that they may avoid her house.

But after she hath washed her Head and Body all is purified again.

[Privileges of Men above Women.] It is lawful for no Woman, altho they be great Men's Wives, to sit on a Stool in the presence of a Man.

It is customary for Men upon any frivolous account to charge one another in the King's Name to do or not to do, according as they would have it.


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