To this purpose, the custom in the Isle of Man is a very good one – ‘If a single woman there prosecutes a single man for a rape, the ecclesiastical judges impanel a jury; and, if this jury finds him guilty, he is returned guilty to the temporal courts: where, if he be convicted, the deemster, or judge, delivers to the woman a rope, a sword, and a ring; and she has it in her choice to have him hanged, beheaded, or to marry him.’
Anna Howe to Clarissa Harlowe, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
To this purpose, the custom in the Isle of Man is a very good one –
‘If a single woman there prosecutes a single man for a rape, the ecclesiastical judges impanel a jury; and, if this jury finds him guilty, he is returned guilty to the temporal courts: where, if he be convicted, the deemster, or judge, delivers to the woman a rope, a sword, and a ring; and she has it in her choice to have him hanged, beheaded, or to marry him.’
Anna Howe to Clarissa Harlowe, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson