Bath.
_Smock Marriages_ (Vol. vi., p. 561.).--In reference to your remark on this
article, I remember that a Scotchman once told me that in the Scotch law of
marriage there is a clause providing that "all under the apron string" at
the time of marriage shall be considered legitimate; and that instances
have been known where children born out {192} of wedlock have been
legitimatised, on the marriage of their parents, by being placed beneath
the mother's apron, and having the string tied over them, during the
ceremony.
Perhaps some of your correspondents can give information as to whether such
a provision does, or did, exist in the Scotch marriage law.