LAWS llESPECTl^'G EACHELOIIS. 
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was born in 1527 ; married at sixteen to her only husband, R. Honey- 
wOod of Charing:, Esq. who died in her ninety-third year ; that she had 
sixteen children of her own body: of whom three died young, and a 
fourth had no issue ; yet her grand-children amounted to one hundred anjl 
fourteen ; her great grand-children to two hundred and twenty-eight ; 
and her grand-children’s grand-children to nine, before she died. The 
whole number she might have seen in her life-time, being 367 ! 164- 
114 4- 228 4- 9 = 367. — But the faithful mother of the Dalburg family 
saw her offspring of the sixth generation ; as recorded in the follow- 
ing distich : 
Mater (1), ait natie (2), die natse (3), 
filia natam (4), 
Ut moneat, natae (6) plangere' 
filiolam (6) : 
That is, The mother (1), says to her daughter (2), Daughter, go (ell 
your daughter (3), to advise her daughter (4), to chastise her daugh- 
ter’s (5) little daughter.” (6), 
-Laws of Spakta respecting Celibacy and Marriage. 
Celibacy in men was infamous, and punished in a most extra- 
ordinary manner; for the bachelor was constrained to w'alk naked in 
the depth of winter, through the market place : while he did this, he 
was obliged to sing a song in disparagement of himself ; and he had 
none of the honours paid him which otherwise belonged to old age, 
it being held unreasonable that the youth should venerate him who 
was resolved to have none of his progeny behind him, to revere them 
when they grew old in their turn. The time of marriage was also 
fixed ; and if a man did not marry w hen he w as at full age, he w as 
liable to an action ; as were such also as married above or below 
themselves. Such as had three children had great immunities : such 
as had four were free from all taxes w hatsoever. Virgins were mar- 
ried without portions ; because neither want should hinder a man, 
nor riches induce him, to marry contrary to inclinations. 
Laws RESPECTING Bachelors. 
The Roman censors frequently imposed fines on old bachelors.-— 
Dion. Halicarnassus mentions an old law, by which all persons of 
full age were obliged to marry. But the most celebrated law of the 
kind was that made under Augustus, called the ** Lex Julia de mari- 
tandis ordinibiis by which bachelors were made incapable of lega- 
ibies or inheritances by will, unless from their near relations. This 
brought many to marry, according to Plutarch’s 'observations, not so 
much tor the sake of raising heirs to their own estates, as to make 
themselves capable of inheriting those of others. 
The rabbins maintain, that by the laws of Moses, every hpdly, 
except some few particulars, is obliged in conscience to marry, at 
twenty years of age : this makes one of their 613 precepts. Hence 
those maxims so frequent among their casuists, that he who does not 
take the neces^sary measures to leave heirs behind him, is not a man. 
