. Pilgrimages to Saint Mary of Walsingham and Saint Thomas of Canterbury . following particulars from the latter seem appropriateas an illustration of the Virgin of Walsingham, and asshowing how grievously the corrupt practices of theChristian Church have imbibed the spirit of the craftsmenof Ephesus. In the 17th century was published a work by WilliamGumppenberg called Marys Atlas, being a descriptionof all her miraculous images worshipped in every part ofthe world. 182 NOTES. In 1839 a priest of Verona began to re-publish it,having added the latest images which wrought wonders,to the end of
. Pilgrimages to Saint Mary of Walsingham and Saint Thomas of Canterbury . following particulars from the latter seem appropriateas an illustration of the Virgin of Walsingham, and asshowing how grievously the corrupt practices of theChristian Church have imbibed the spirit of the craftsmenof Ephesus. In the 17th century was published a work by WilliamGumppenberg called Marys Atlas, being a descriptionof all her miraculous images worshipped in every part ofthe world. 182 NOTES. In 1839 a priest of Verona began to re-publish it,having added the latest images which wrought wonders,to the end of the eighteenth century. This work hasnow reached six volumes (the last, in the British Mu-seum, being published in 1842,) and already contains anaccount of 193 miraculous images ; yet these six volumeshave reviewed only a part of Italy, and have not touchedupon any other country. In 1707 waspublished at Lisbon Santuario Mariano,containing an account of the miraculous images of theVirgin venerated in Portugal and its dependencies. Itfills no less than ten octavo SEAL OF THE IVYCHURCH, WILTS. APPENDIX. English Pilgrimages in the Fourteenth andFifteenth Centuries. The abuses of Pilgrimages were perceived and cen-sured by the pious Lollard and the caustic satirist longbefore the time of Erasmus. The opinion entertainedon the subject by the poet Chaucer is well known; butan earlier poet, John Longland, is not less severe in hispicture. In his Vision of Piers Ploughman, which waswritten about the year 13G2, he thus describes the lying,idleness, and mendicancy to which encouragement wasgiven by this vagrant kind of life : Pilgrymes and palmeres plighten hem to gidere, For to seken seint James, and seintes at Rome, They wenten forth on hu-e wey with many wise tales, And hadden leve to lyen al hire lif after. I seigh somme that seiden thei hadde y-sought seintes, To ech a tale that thei tolde hire tonge was tempred to lye, Moore than to seye sooth, it semed bi hire
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