P. 433 b, 2d paragraph. Beating of daughters.
Elizabeth Paston, a marriageable woman, was "betyn onys in the weke, or twyes, and som tyme twyes on a day, and hir hed broken in to or thre places." (1449.) Paston Letters, ed. Gairdner, I, 90.
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