“Chascuns ne gist mie a part soy,
Mais deux et deux en chambre obscure,
Ou le plus souvent troy et troy,
En un seul lit à l’aventure,”
with fleas as big as those of the monks of Citeaux. “Œuvres Complètes,” ed. de Queux de St. Hilaire, vol vii. pp. 79, 117.
[138] “Works,” Skeat, iv, 595.
[139] Statutes 23 Ed. III, ch. 6, and 27 Ed. III, st. 1, ch. 3. As to the inns of the Middle Ages, see Francisque Michel and Ed. Fournier, “La Grande Bohème, histoire de classes réprouvées,” vol. i, “Hôtelleries et cabarets,” Paris, 1851; d’Avenel, “L’évolution des Moyens de Transport,” Paris, 1919. There is in the “Vetusta monumenta,” vol. iv, 1815, pl. xxxv., a fine view of the George Inn at Glastonbury (fifteenth century). The New Inn at Gloucester, Northgate-street, is a good specimen of an English inn of the fifteenth century (below, p. [131]. Charming sketches of several by Herbert Railton adorn an article on “Coaching Days and Coaching Ways,” in the “English Illustrated Magazine,” July, 1888. See also Turner and Parker, who mention several, of the fifteenth century, “Domestic Architecture,” vol. iii. pp. 46 ff.
[140] The Latin text of their account of expenses was published by Thorold Rogers in his “History of Agriculture and Prices,” ii. p. 638.
[141] “Liber Albus,” ed. Riley, Introduction, p. lviii. Cf. the journey from Cambridge to York of a party of twenty-six scholars, in 1319. The beds, wherever they sleep, uniformly cost 8d. for the twenty-six. W. W. Rouse Ball, “Cambridge Papers,” London, 1918, ch. ix. “A Christmas Journey in 1319.”