1 “ …bitterness of spirit to them, and so indeed ought all such mungrel marriages to be to all godly parents.” Ann Cooper Whitall Diary, 1st day, vii month, 1760, Haverford.

2 Break Meeting Records, 10.v.1706, NOTTRO. This hostility to marriage with strangers had regional as well as religious roots. “Better to marry over the mixen than over the moor,” was an old Cheshire proverb. Here again, the religious attitudes of the Quakers added a religious imperative to customs and traditions which had long existed in the North Midlands. Cheshire Proverbs (Chester 1917), q.v. “Mixen”; see also OED and EDD, “Mixen.”