[177] i.e. Latten (a kind of bronze) set with (mock) precious stones.
[178] Pretending them to be relics of some saint.
[179] See “Archæological Journal,” vol. iii. p. 149.
[180] Mr. Taylor, in his edition of “Blomfield’s Norfolk,” enumerates no less than seventy places of pilgrimage in Norfolk alone.
[181] A man might not go without his wife’s consent, nor a wife without her husband’s:—
“To preche them also thou might not wonde [fear, hesitate],
Both to wyf and eke husbande,
That nowther of hem no penance take,
Ny non a vow to chastity make,
Ny no pylgrimage take to do
But if bothe assente thereto.
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Save the vow to Jherusalem,
That is lawful to ether of them.”
Instructions for Parish Priests. (Early English Text Society.)
[182] Marked 3,395 d. 4to. The footnote on a previous page (p. 158) leads us to conjecture that in ancient as in modern times the pilgrim may have received a certificate of his having been blessed as a pilgrim, as now we give certificates of baptism, marriage, and holy orders.
[184] “History of Music.”