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obliged to pay them any thing more, be- 

 caufe me has left them all (he was worth, 

 even her cloaths, keeping only a fhift to 

 cover her, w r hich the laws of the country 

 cannot refufe her. As foon as (he is mar- 

 ried, and no longer belongs to the deceafed 

 hufband, me puts on the cloaths w T hich the 

 fecond has given her. The Swedifl) clergy- 

 men here have often been obliged to marry a 

 woman in a drefs which isfo little expenfive, 

 and fo light. This appears from the re- 

 gifters kept in the churches, and from the 

 accounts given by the clergymen them- 

 felves. I havelikewife often feen accounts 

 of fuch marriages in the Knglijh gazettes; 

 which are printed in thefe colonies -, and 

 I particularly remember the following rela- 

 tion : A woman went, with no other drefs 

 than her fhift, out of the houfe of her de- 

 ceafed hufband to that of her bridegroom, 

 who met her half way with fine newcloaths, 

 and faid, before all who were prefent, that 

 he lent them his bride ; and put them oil 

 her with his own hands. It feems, he faid 

 that he lent the cloaths, left, if he had faid 

 he gave them, the creditors of the firfl huf- 

 band ftiould come, and take them from her ; 

 pretending, that .(he was looked upon as the 

 relict of her firft hufband, before me was 

 married to the fecond. 



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