When Divorce Was Off the Table, English Couples Dissolved Their Marriage...
With Beer! The practice of “wife-selling” wasn’t legal, but a drink signaled freedom from a relationship that had soured. On June 2, 1828, inside the George and Dragon pub in Tonbridge, England, John Savage paid George Skinner one shilling and a pot of beer for his wife, Mary. George ordered his... Sign in to see full entry.