Chronica monasterii de Melsa, éd. A. Bond, 1868, t. III, p. 35.
La lettre de William Grenefeld, archevêque d'York, relativement à l'installation d'une statue de la Vierge, débute ainsi: «Sane nuper ad aures nostras pervenit quod ad quandam imaginem beatæ Virginis in ecclesia parochiali de Foston noviter collocatam magnus simplicium est concursus, acsi in eadem plus quam in aliis similibus imaginibus aliquid numinis appareret....» Année 1313; Wilkins, Concilia, t. II, p. 423.
(28) LES PÈLERINAGES; ATTITUDE DES WYCLIFITES ET DES PROTESTANTS (p. [215]).—Abjuration du lollard William Dynet, 1er décembre 1395:
«.... Fro this day forthwarde, I shall worshipe ymages, with praying and offering vn-to hem in the worschepe of the seintes that they be made after; and also I shal neuermore despyse pylgremage....»
Academy du 17 novembre 1883; le texte de ce serment sera inséré dans la collection d'Early english documents que prépare en ce moment M. Furnivall.
Opinion de Latimer sur les pèlerinages:
«What thinke ye of these images that are had more then their felowes in reputation? that are gone vnto with such labour and werines of the body, frequented with such our cost, sought out and visited with such confidence? what say ye by these images, that are so famous, so noble, so noted, beyng of them so many and so diuers in England. Do you thinke that this preferryng of picture to picture, image to image is the right vse and not rather the abuse of images?» A sermon... made.. to the conuocation of the clergy (28 Henry VIII).—Frutefvll sermons preached by the right reuerend father and constant martyr of Iesus Christ, M. Hugh Latymer, Londres, 1571, 4o.
(29) NOTES DE VOYAGE DE PÈLERINS ANGLAIS DES QUATORZIÈME ET QUINZIÈME SIÈCLES (p. [226]).—Voyage à Saint-Jacques (quinzième siècle):
Men may leue alle gamys,
That saylen to seynt Jamys!