Wife selling

Wife selling

The old custom of wife-selling in provincial England provided a way of ending an unsatisfactory marriage by mutual agreement. By registering as a marketplace seller and parading his wife with a halter about her neck, a husband could auction her to the highest bidder.

External references

* [http://www.ontalink.com/history/18th_century/regions/British/wife_selling.html Discussion and examples]
* [http://www.hastingspress.co.uk/sample.pdf Documented examples]


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