Alfred the Great of Blessed Memory

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Excerpt from Alfred the Great of Blessed Memory: Memorials Concerning England Long Anterior to the Reign of King Alfred to His Epoch Dug Out of Long Forgotten Lore The children were commonly nursed by their owns mothers, and it was accounted a great shame for a mother to put her child forth to nurse, unlesse it were upon some necessity: they holding it among them for a generall rule that the child, by sucking a strange nurse, would rather encline unto the nature of her than unto the nature of the owns father and mother. If eyther wife or maid were found in dishonesty, her clothes were cut ofi' round about her, beneath the girdle stead, and she was whipped and turned out, to be derided of the people. St. Boniface, an Englishman, and Archbishop of Maywnce, in an epistle which he wrote unto Ethelbald, king of Mercia (wherein he reproveth him for his unclean life), declareth the punish ment for such offences to have beene among the old Pagan Saxons farre more severe than is here set down. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.