Kept by order of the Parish · County of Moorshire

The Mournhowe Register

Being a true account of the old neighbours of these islands,
their licences, their trades, and their trespasses.

Printed for the Archive · Sold at the sign of the Black Dog · Price Two Pence
The Register · kept separately

HOW-1

The Barrow-Bride

HOW-1 The Barrow-Bride Haugbúi — a bride of the old howe on the moor; the quiet sort
Woodcut portrait: the Barrow-Bride at her table before the howe door, veiled, a bone hand signing the ledger as an instalment is received
An instalment received at the howe door. The hand that signs is the one that keeps the book.
Name
Her married name was never taken, the ceremony being — see below. Her maiden name is with her people, and her people are with her, in the howe.
Descent
Of the howe-folk, who keep to their mounds and their bargains, in that order.
Married
The ceremony is entered as postponed. The Register does not record for how long, the column being too narrow.
Present Trade
She is paying off a debt contracted in life. The instalments are regular. The Register has inspected the ledger and found it kept better than the parish's own.
Note by the Clerk
The neighbours speak well of her. The Register notes that this is rare, and that they mean it.
Record of Incidents
  1. None brought to the parish. Complaints concerning the howe are, in any case, to be lodged at the howe, during daylight, by the brave. See the picture, “The Unquiet”.
Entered in the Register late in the last century; the precise year is weathered off the page, as such years are. Examined & found true — Parish Clerk
BAN-7 · DUL-1 · CATS-9 · LEA-1 · VAM-1 · WLF-1 · GLT-1 · HOW-1 · REV-1 · No. ——— · SPR-1

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