Gloucester is exceptional in having the cloister on the north side of the Church; and also in having these stone recesses in the scriptorium alley.

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The Gloucester cloister and the carrel recesses shown in this woodcut date from the latter part of the fourteenth century.

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Published by the Surtees Society, London, 1842; see p. [70].

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Frequently in the Linen-armourers' Guild, that of makers of defensive armour of linen padded and quilted, a very important protection against assassination, which was used till the seventeenth century.

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Dante selected the Apothecaries' and Physicians' Guild.

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