| Description | Great excess has been caused by the costly dishes, meats and drinks brought to women in childbed, which they repay at their churchings. Therefore it is ordered that in future no such dishes and wines shall be brought to women in childbed nor to churchings, and that no woman but the midwife and the mother, sisters and sisters-in-law shall enter the house with her that is churched. (fine, 6/8 against the person who owns the house, and 3/4 against every person attending.). |