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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Yes that is what our vicar told me, but the common view, the one held by the people, was that it was to cleanse the woman of the stain of original sin........and as I said in a previous post women who had given birth and had not been 'churched' were not made welcome at social gatherings....and would be shunned by those who felt themselves to be devout Christians.
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They probably packed in wi it cos it didn't work?
