[59]. A game of fox and geese. From the MS. 10 E. IV., fol. 49 b • 312
[60]. Reading in Canterbury cathedral of a fabricated papal bull granting pardons to those who will help Henry of Lancaster against King Richard II. From the MS. Harl. 1319, fol. 12 a, containing the chronicle of Créton; see supra No. 14. The archbishop, Thomas Arundel, the same who led Henry IV to the empty throne, shown in No. 15, is represented saying: “My good people, hearken all of you here. You well know how the King most wrongfully and without reason banished your lord Henry; I have therefore obtained of the Holy Father who is our patron, that those that shall forthwith bring aid this day, shall every one of them have remission of all sins. . . . Behold the sealed bull that the Pope of renowned Rome hath sent me, my good friends, in behalf of you all.” John Webb’s translation of Créton’s chronicle, “Archæologia,” vol. xx. • 319
[61]. A pardoner (Chaucer’s pardoner)—
“A vernicle hadde he sowed on his cappe,
His walet lay byforn him in his lappe
Bret-ful of pardoun come from Rome al hoot.”
From the Ellesmere MS. of the “Canterbury Tales” • 336
[62]. Rocamadour, general view. From a photograph, obtained through the kindness of Canon Laporte, of Rocamadour • 338
[63]. A pilgrim. From the MS. 17 C. xxxviii, fol. 39, in the British Museum; travels of Mandeville, English, fifteenth century • 369
[64]. The fortified entrance to the sanctuaries of Rocamadour, built in the eleventh century, recently restored. From a photograph obtained as above, No. 62 • 373