Page:Ludovico Guicciardini - Description of the Low Countries.djvu/68

 The Description devided among the other sonnes,but the daugh- ters have nothing to do with the Fiefs. A Bastarde legittimated by the Prince maye dispose of all that he hath, and if he make no will his next of kinne succeed him, otherwise if hee be not legittimated,all that he hath commeth to the prince by the Lawe de Aubeine. Yet a Bastarde legittimated shall have no par- tage with his bretheren & sisters, but that onlye which his Father giveth him. A Bastard of a woman,maide, or widowe, not being begootten by a marled man, nor a religi- ous man shall have his Partage, and inherit fom his mother with his bretheren & sisters as fully as if he had bin borne in lawfull matrimonv. No Land may be bought or morgaged, but by writings made before one of the Escheuins at the least, and one Secretarie of the towne, who enroule it in the publique Registers, where all men may see it. And after firten or fixten mo- neths expired,no man may quarrell it.

Their Mariages.

When a man marieth his daughter and giveth her money to her do- wer, that barreth her not from her Fathers Inheritaunce. But when the Landes and goods(the Fiefs where with the Daughters meddle not excep