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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    “ Resp. Il y ad estatutz suffisamment.” “ Rolls of Parliament,” 50 Ed. III., vol. ii. p. 357. Again, the Gommons having pointed out that the visits of the justices in eyre are a very great cause of trouble and expense to the people in time of war, the king suppresses the visits of those magistrates while the war lasts, except when any “ horrible ” case may fall out. “ Item priont les communes au roi leur seigneur q’il ne grante en nulle partie du roialme eire ne trailbaston durante la guerre, par queux les communes purront estre troblez ne empoveres, fors qe en horible cas. “ Resp. Le roi le voet.” “Rolls of Parliament,” vol. ii. p, 305, 45 Ed. III., 1371. VII. (p. 116). The dress of the worldly monk. According to the Council of London (1342) : “ . . . Militari potius quam clericali habitu induti superiori, scilicet brevi seu stricto, notabiliter tamen et excessive latis, vel longis manicis, cubitos non tegentibus [tangentibus in Labbe] sed pendulis, critiibus cum [two words not in Labbe] furrura vel sandalo revolutis, et ut vulgariter dicitur, reversatis, et caputiis cum tipettis miræ longitudinis, barbisque prolixis incedere, et suis digitis annulos indifterenter portare publiée, ac zonis stipatis pretiosis miræ magnitudinis supercingi, et bursis cum imagini- bus variis sculptis, amellatis [annellatis, L.J et deauratis, ad ipsas patenter cum cultellis, ad modum gladiorum pendentibus, caligis ctiam rubeis, scaccatis et viridibus, sotularibusque rostratis et incisis multimode, ac croperiis [propriis, L.] ad sellas, et cornibus ad colla pendentibus, epitogiis aut clocis [this Word not in L.] furratis, uti patenter ad oram, contra sanc- tiones canonicas temere non verentur, adeo quod a laicis vix aut nulla patet distinctio clcricorum.” Wilkins’ “ Concilia 24