English wayfaring life in the middle ages : (xivth century) / by J.J. Jusserand ... tr. from the French by Lucy Toulmin Smith.

  • Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules), 1855-1932.
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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    ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE 1. —Knights travelling, followed by their escort of archers. From the MS. Harleian 1319, fol. 25, painted circa i40o(see infra'^o. ii). The two travellers are the Duke of Exeter and the Duke of Surrey ; they go to meet Henry of Lancaster at Chester, to whoni they are sent by King Richard II. (Aug. 1399) Frontispiece 4 2. —A minstrel dancing and singing. From the MS. 2 B. vii., in the British Muséum, fol. 197^7. (English, early fourteenth century)... 7 J.—Old London Bridge. From a miniature in the MS. 16 F. ii. fol. 73, in the British Muséum, containing the poems of Charles d’Orléans (fifteenth century). This is the oldest repré- sentation extant of the famous bridge built by Isembert. The painting, of which the upper part only is here given, represents the Tower of London with Charles d’Orléans sitting in it as a prisoner. In our reproduc- tion may be seen the chapel of St. T homas à Becket and the houses on the bridge, the wharves along the City side of the water, and