[106] “Eulog. Hist.,” iii., 387.
[107] Walsingham, an. 1382; Riley, p. 464.
[108] “P. Plowman,” C., vii., 352 ff. For Clarice and Peronel, see Prof. Skeat’s notes, ad loc., and cf. Riley, pp. 484, 566, and note 3.
[109] Newgate, Ludgate, and Cripplegate were regular prisons at this time; but Besant is quite mistaken in saying that all gate-leases provide “that they may be taken over as prisons if they are wanted” (“Medieval London,” i., 163). A Cripplegate lease (Riley, p. 387) has naturally such a provision; the others are silent or (like Chaucer’s) definitely promise the contrary.
[110] P. 489; cf. “Life Records,” IV., xxxiv. Michaelmas Day fell in 1386 on a Saturday.
[111] Bk. II., lines 122 ff.
[112] Darmesteter, “Froissart,” p. 112.
[113] Riley, pp. 194, 285, 338; cf. Mr. W. Hudson’s “Parish of St. Peter Permountergate” (Norwich, 1889), pp. 21, 45, 60.
[114] Cf. the present writer’s “From St. Francis to Dante,” 2nd ed., pp. 6, 160, 167, 380, where proof is adduced from episcopal registers that even large and rich monasteries had often no scriptorium, and many monks could not write their own names.
[115] “Town Life,” ii., 84.