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.
The Gloucester cloister and the carrel recesses shown in this woodcut date from the latter part of the fourteenth century.
Published by the Surtees Society, London, 1842; see p. [70].
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.
Dante selected the Apothecaries' and Physicians' Guild.