English wayfaring life in the middle ages : (xivth century) / by J.J. Jusserand ... tr. from the French by Lucy Toulmin Smith.

  • Jean Jules Jusserand
Date:
1889
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Credit: English wayfaring life in the middle ages : (xivth century) / by J.J. Jusserand ... tr. from the French by Lucy Toulmin Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    he reformed again, and with the same resuit. In 1362 he declared that henceforth the purveycrs should pay ready money at the price current of the market ; and he added the amusing proviso that the purveyors should lose their detested name and should be called buyers : “ that the heinous name of purveyor [le. providor] be changed, and named achatour [buyer].” i The two words conveyed, it appears, very different ideas.2 The sanie abuses existed in France, and numerous ordinances may be read in the pages of Isambert which are conceived in exactly the same spirit and which respond to the same complaints ; ordinances of Philip the Pair in 1308, of Louis X. in 1342, of Philip VI., who vvills that the “ preneurs pour nous ” (“ takers for us”), should not take unless theyhad “ new letters from us, which shows the existence of false providors as in F.ngland. John of France renews ail the restrictions of his predecessors, December 25, 1355, &c. The king and his lords journeyed on horseback for the rnost part, but they had also carriages. Nothing gives a better idea of the encumbering, awkward luxury which formed the splendour of civil life during this century than the structure of these heavy machines. The best had four wheels ; three or four horses drew them, harnessed in a row, the postilion being mounted upon one, armed with a short-handled whip of many thongs; solid beams rested on the axles, and above this framework rose an archway rounded like a tunnel ; as a whole, ungraceful enough. But the details were extremely élégant, the wheels were carved and their ' Statutc 36 Edward III. stat. i, ch. 2. ® Sec scvcral cxtracts in Appendix V.