This suggests that they were local landless pensioners who had no-one else to look after them and so were allocated bed and board in the almonry.
The woman is entitled only to bed and board; women are regarded as chattels in the home and economically and legally as second-rate citizens.
Some provide only bed and board, others help with supportive or personal care.
I think nothing more tragic can be conceived than to compel a woman to cohabit at bed and board with a man who has served a long term of imprisonment.
Separation from bed and board was allowed in exceptional circumstances, usually adultery.
They normally provide bed and board, that is, at least some meals as well as accommodation.
These spiritual mates, dissolve, or disannul, all former marriage connections; and many of them bed and board together, to the exclusion of all former vows.
She was granted a divorce from bed and board, with alimony, in 1908.
