Highways and byways in Surrey . A/o>/,i She Chalk Ritigc—Lcith Hill in the Distance. under the nave to the grand altar in the nave, and from thatday forward the Feast of the Translation took its share of thepilgrims numbers. A constant Stream journeyed east andwest ; travellers with vows unpaid met travellers returningfrom the shrine, and on and round the peopled highwaysprang up booths and shelters to meet the pilgrims and merchants hawked their wares and drove bargainsby the road. Fairs were instituted in the villages along theroute ; strolling musicians earned idle wages; b
Highways and byways in Surrey . A/o>/,i She Chalk Ritigc—Lcith Hill in the Distance. under the nave to the grand altar in the nave, and from thatday forward the Feast of the Translation took its share of thepilgrims numbers. A constant Stream journeyed east andwest ; travellers with vows unpaid met travellers returningfrom the shrine, and on and round the peopled highwaysprang up booths and shelters to meet the pilgrims and merchants hawked their wares and drove bargainsby the road. Fairs were instituted in the villages along theroute ; strolling musicians earned idle wages; beggars sat bythe roadside, at the churchyard corners, at the foot of thehills, and asked for alms. B 2 4 TRAVELLERS WITH A DIFFERENCE chap. And here, before we follow the pilgrims across the countyfrom Farnham to the lane by which they leave it east ofTitsey, I want to make a point clear. The pilgrims did not alltravel to Canterbury by the same road, along the self-sametrack so many feet wide, as the Ordnance map and some oft
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