. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . v kuights of St. Jago were organised to protect the pilgrims. From1413 to 1-156, many thousands of English sailed from Plymouth, Falmouth,Yarmouth, Bristol, Southampton, Hull, London, and many other ports, insmall vessels licensed for this special service.* Pilgrimages to Canterburyand Walsingham were ridiculed by the early reformers as mere pleasure-trips, with more merriment than sanctity; and, if we may judge fromChaucer, they were especially adapted for a people t
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . v kuights of St. Jago were organised to protect the pilgrims. From1413 to 1-156, many thousands of English sailed from Plymouth, Falmouth,Yarmouth, Bristol, Southampton, Hull, London, and many other ports, insmall vessels licensed for this special service.* Pilgrimages to Canterburyand Walsingham were ridiculed by the early reformers as mere pleasure-trips, with more merriment than sanctity; and, if we may judge fromChaucer, they were especially adapted for a people to whom the dolce farnieute —the do-nothing of the South—was intolerable weariness. Thenational characteristic then, as now, was its avidity for action. The knight,wanting home occupation, most earnestly desires that a hawk may beprocured ; for he says, By my troth, I die for default of labour. t Theenergy of the race carried the knight into the battle-field as much for excite-ment as for principle; made him in peace the most daring falconer andhuntsman ; and sent the yeoman and peasant to their archery contests, their. Mummers. Bodleian MS. leaping, their vaulting, their morris-dances, and their mummings. TheChurch laid hold of this universal hatred of sitting down at rest, and sentthem on pilgrimage. But as the most active came to look at the approaching night when no man worketh, the Church then was at hand, with its real truthsand its vain delusions, to give confidence in the last human trial. The Willsof the period alibrd unquestionable evidence of the constant presence of thespiritual adviser in the once busy mans chair-days. Moneys bequeathedto the high altar of the abbey or parish-church ; requiems to be said, in richvestments ap]iro])riated for the special purpose, with a yearly reward to thepriest; a newly-painted image of Our Lady to be set up, with a taper everburning; the chimes in the steeple to be repaired; a priest to liave a houseto dwell in, and
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