Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England . with its wall, round towers, moat and bridge, andone great church dominating the houses, rises out of the park-likemeadows with a castle on a neighbouring height. In the lowermargin of the late fourteenth-century MS. (Royal 13 A iii.) thescribe has given a number of sketches, very neatly executed, oftowns mentioned in his narrative. They are probably for the mostpart fancy sketches, but they serve to show that the idea of a town inthe mind of a medieval draughtsman was a wall and gates with a grovecf towers and spires soaring abov
Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England . with its wall, round towers, moat and bridge, andone great church dominating the houses, rises out of the park-likemeadows with a castle on a neighbouring height. In the lowermargin of the late fourteenth-century MS. (Royal 13 A iii.) thescribe has given a number of sketches, very neatly executed, oftowns mentioned in his narrative. They are probably for the mostpart fancy sketches, but they serve to show that the idea of a town inthe mind of a medieval draughtsman was a wall and gates with a grovecf towers and spires soaring above. See folios 27, 32, 33, 34, etc., andespecially London, folio 56. An interesting view of a town with agreat church and several smaller towers and spires appearing over thewalls is inLydgates Siege of Thebes, 18 D. 11, folio 148. THE MEDIEVAL TOWNS. 487 outwork the barbican, formed apicturesque architecturalgroup, and spoke of the strength of the defences ofthe town and the security of its inhabitants. Heentered over sounding drawbridge, through the echoing. Micklegate Bar, York. vault of the gate ; and so into narrow streets of gabledtimber houses, with overhanging upper stories, inter-lacing beams, and quaint carvings and finials ; past PARISH PRIESTS AND THEIR PEOPLE. frequent churches, hospitals, gild-halls ; to the cross inthe middle of the market-place. The people he saw in the streets were in picturesquecostumes of all colours and fashions: a cavalcade ofa knight, in flashing armour, with a squire carryinghis helm and spear and two or three yeomen in buff-coats and helmets behind him ; a monk in his flow-ing black benedictine robe ; a couple of FranciscanFriars in their grey gowns rope-girdled; a parishpriest or cantarist returning from his service ; thecitizens in dress which indicated their quality—somein their burgess gowns, others in the livery of theirgild ; the shopmen at their open booths at work attheir craft and sohciting the passers-by, What dyelack? What dy
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