[11] "On his way to Ireland he passed through Wales, and gives us a slight sketch of the character of that people and country. _It must afford no small gratification to a New England man to learn that the practice of_ BUNDLING _is not peculiar to us, but that this pleasing though dangerous art was probably imported from abroad_."--A review of _The Stranger in Ireland_, in _Connecticut Courant_ for November 19th, 1806. [12] In this connection we may give the following extract from _Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales_, etc., etc., printed by command of his late Majesty King William IV, under the direction of the commissioners on the Public Records of the Kingdom. MDCCCXLI. Folio. From page 369.--The Gwentian[13] Code. "A woman of full age who goes with a man clandestinely, and taken by him to bush, or brake, or house, and after connection deserted; upon complaint made by her to her kindred, and to the courts, is to receive, for her chastity, a bull of three winters, having its tail well shaven and greased and then thrust through the door-clate; and then let the woman go into the house, the bull being outside, and let her plant her foot on the threshold, and let her take his tail in her hand, and let a man come on each side of the bull; and if she can hold the bull, let her take it for her _wynet-werth_[14] and her chastity; and, if not, let her take what grease may adhere to her hands." [13] _Gwent_, the appellation of the district in Wales inhabited by the Silures, comprised the diocese of Landav. [14] This word means _face shame_ or _face worth_. [15] A good honest word, which although not exactly English, is at least first cousin to our _quest_, and _quiz_, etc. Worcester gives the following: "†Quēse, _v. a._, to search after. _Milton_." [obsolete ē long, s like z.] Quĕst, _v. n._, to join search. _B. Jonson_. †Quĕster, _n._, a seeker. _Rowe_. Is it not allowable to derive from one of these words Quēsing, or Quĕsting, pronounced Qweesting, and from the other Quĕsting [è short]? So that he who went _queesting_ was simply _searching after_ a wife, understood. [16] These are two very small islands at the opening of the Zuider zee. [17] From _The Student and Intellectual Observer_, London, November number, 1868, p. 310, in article by Thomas Wright, F.S.A. Chapter vii--_Womankind in all Ages of Western Europe_, etc. [18] _Cottages of the Alps_ (London, 1860), pages 77, 91, 132. [19] _New Voyage to North America, giving a full Account of the Customs, Commerce, Religion and Strange Opinions of the Savages of that Country_, etc., etc. Written by Baron Lahontan, Lord Lieutenant of the French Colony at _Placentia_, in Newfoundland, now in England. London, 1703. In describing the amatory customs of the Indians of this country, the author says (Vol. II, p. 37):