In that amusing work, Burn's _History of the Fleet Marriages_, p. 77.,
occurs the following entry:--"The woman ran across Ludgate Hill in her
shift;" to which the editor has added this note:--"The _Daily Journal_ of
8th November, 1725, mentions a similar exhibition at Ulcomb in {18} Kent.
It was a vulgar error that a man was not liable to the bride's debts, if he
took her in no other apparel than her shift."