[78] Riley’s “Memorials of London,” London, 1868, p. 291.
[79] Ordonance of March 1, 1388, “Recueil d’Isambert,” vol. vi. p. 665. On the state of roads and bridges and on travelling in France, see d’Avenel, “L’Évolution des Moyens de Transport,” Paris, 1919.
[80] “Rolls of Parliament,” ii. p. 107.
[81] See frontispiece of this volume, and p. [14].
[82] To give shelter (“tego,” I shelter, in the enumeration devised by St. Thomas Aquinas) was one of the seven “Works of Charity.” In the evening prayers at home, in my childhood, part of which had been handed down from remote times, travellers were still remembered, as well as those who had been “bitten by venomous beasts.”
[83] See representations of these carts in the manuscripts of the fourteenth century, and especially in MS. Roy., 10 E. IV, in the British Museum, fol. 63, 94, 110, &c., and in the Louterell psalter. We give above a facsimile of one of them, and further a representation of a reaper’s cart from the Louterell psalter. See also Bodl. MS. 264, fos. 42, 84, 103, 110.
[84] Thorold Rogers, “History of Agriculture and Prices,” i. pp. 650–661.
[85] “Statutes of the Realm,” 4 Edward III, ch. 3. Eight bushels make a quarter. [The Act 25 Edward III, stat. 5, ch. 10, A.D. 1351, provided that every measure of corn should be striken without heap, and that the royal purveyors should use this measure. Hence the name strike for a bushel. L. T. S.]
[86] Statute 36 Edward III, stat. 1, ch. 2.