PALLIO Cooperire. It was an ancient custom, where children were born out of lawful wedlock, and their parents were afterwards married, that those children, together with the father and mother, should stand pallio coopti, under a cloth, while the marriage was solemnizing; which was a kind of adoption, and had the effect of a legitimation. Thus Robert Grossthead, the famous bishop of Lincoln, in one of his letters says: In signum legitimationis, nati ante matrimonium consue-
Pallium.
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verunt poni sub pallio super parentes eorum extenso in matrimonii solemnizatione.
Selden, in his notes on Fleeta, adds, that the children of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, by Catharine Swinford, though legitimated by act of parliament, yet were covered with the pall when the parents were married.