Category: History - British
1. Knights travelling, followed by their escort of archers. From the MS. Harleian 1319, in the British Museum, fol. 25, painted circa 1400 (below No. 15). The two travellers are the Duke of Exeter and the Duke of Surrey; they go to meet Henry of Lancaster at Chester, to whom t...
In spite of the merits of physicians, soothsayers, and sorcerers, maladies sometimes resisted the best remedies, and the patient would then vow to go on a pilgrimage, ride, walk...
21. viii. A characteristic decree of the Venetian Senate, showing thepopularity of this pilgrimage abroad, authorizes on Aug. 3, 1402, Lorenzo Contarini, captain of the Venetian galleys setting sail for Flanders, to visit St. Thomas’s shrine, in...
5. CHAPTER IThe maintenance of roads and bridges in England was in the fourteenth century one of those charges which weighed, like military service, on the whole of the nation. All landed p...
10. CHAPTER IThe most popular of all the wanderers were naturally the most cheerful, or those held to be the most beneficent. These latter were the folks with a universal panacea, very numer...
18. book viii. chap. v.[6] When Henry VIII gave the lands of the dissolved monastery of Christ Church to Canterbury Cathedral, he declared that he made this donation “in order that charity to the poor...
11. CHAPTER IIAll his life long, kind, loving, merry Chaucer, a good observer, a good listener and good talker, was fond of travels and travellers, of roamers and tale-tellers, of people who...
8. CHAPTER IIIThese roads, thus followed in every direction by the king and the lords moving from one manor to another, by the merchants and peasants going to the fair, the market, or the sta...
19. PART II — LAY WAYFARERS[234] “Let scarlet cloth be taken, and let him who is suffering small-pox be entirely wrapped in it or in some other red cloth; I did thus when the son of the illustrious King o...
6. CHAPTER IIThus kept up, the roads stretched away from the towns and plunged into the country, interrupted by rivulets in winter and dotted with holes; the heavy carts slowly followed thei...
15. CHAPTER II“Indulgence” was at first simply a commutation of penance. The punishments inflicted for sins were of long duration; fasting and mortification had to be carried on for months an...
14. CHAPTER IWhile the inward consciousness of common wants and longings for better days spread everywhere, by means of that crowd of work-people whom we find in England ceaselessly on the m...
12. CHAPTER IIIThe mountebanks, the musicians, and their fellows have stayed us at the street corners, in the castle halls and courtyards; the pedlars have led us to the peasants’ cots, the fa...
3. PART III1. Knights travelling, followed by their escort of archers. From the MS. Harleian 1319, in the British Museum, fol. 25, painted circa 1400 (below No. 15). The two travellers are...
20. PART III — RELIGIOUS WAYFARERS[384] “Item priont les communes . . . de ordeiner et commander que null neif ou vileyn mette ses enfantz de cy en avant à Escoles pur eux avancer par clergie, et ce en maintenan...
7. Chapter iii is particularly interesting. It shows “how a man who isgoing far out of his own country, riding or walking, should behave himself and talk upon the way.” The servant sent forward to engage the room utters the fond hope “‘that there...
9. PART IIWe have seen the aspect and usual condition of English roads; we must now take separately the principal types of the wandering class and see what sort of a life the wayfarer led...
17. PART I — ENGLISH ROADS[2] And possibly, in early times, of roads also; see McKechnie, “Magna Carta,” Glasgow, 1905, p. 353. On the _Trinoda_ or _Trimoda Necessitas_, see W. H. Stevenson, in the “Engl...
2. PART II1. PART I4. PART I13. PART III