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nohility^ of the alliance and friends to tliem hotli^ were witnesses 

 therunto, and were to tahe care, tliat the money sliould be dis- 

 posed to the use of the wife and children, in case she survioed 

 her husband. 



Then a gentleman read alowd the names of the twelve witt- 

 nesses, who, as they were called^ one after another making their 

 honors to the queen, went and layd their right hånds on 

 the speare; and then was published the dowrey and augmen- 

 tation, thus by tliese twelve wittnessed. 



After this the speare was layd down att the feet of the 

 bride, and. all, making their solemne reverences to the queen, tooke 

 againe their piaces. Then the same gentleman, that layd down 

 the speare, took it up againe and threw it out of the %vindow 

 into the great court, ivhere a multitude of people stood expecting 

 it, and scrambled for the head of it, and for the taffata, which 

 they tore in pieces and wore in their hatts, as the bridés favours. 

 To dage derefter aflagde Whitelocke et besøg hos grev Erik 

 Oxeiistjerna, son af deo store kansler, og talen faldt da på de 

 svenske bryllupsskikke. Oxenstjt^rna oplyste Whitelocke om, at 

 brudgommens af de tolv vidner besvorne gave på anden bryllups- 

 dag kaldtes »morgengave«, hvortil Wh. (som var lovkyndig og 

 senere en lid var lordkansler) bemærkede, at samme benævnelse 

 fandtes i de gamle engelske love , ligesom også de tolv vidner 

 mindede ham om de engelske jurier. Derpå fulgte disse ytringer: 



Wh. Wat doe you call the speare or pike which the gent- 

 leman held? — Ox. We call it weppun [o:vapenJ. — Wh. We 

 have the same \word., weapon, for all manner of armes and war- 

 like instruments. What doe you call the laying of their hånds 

 uppon the speare'? — Ox. We call it tack, weppun tack, to 

 touch the speare. — Wh. We have also the word tack, for touching; 

 and we have, in the northerne parts of England, a perticular 

 precinct, or territory, which we call a wapen-take, and a terri- 

 toriall court of justice there, which we call a wapen- 

 take court; and a very learned gentleman, from whom I re- 



