English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (Xivth Century)
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In most mediasval story books telling of the prodigal son, he is usually repre- sented sowing his very wild oats at the inn or tavern. Musicians of the meanest order would entertain the sitters Jit the table with their pipings, and then pass the hat.3 Having to answer before Archbishop Arundel for his dis- paraging statements concerning pilgrimages, the Lollard William Thorpe declares in 1407 that pilgrims are fre- quenters of ill-famed hostelries, " spending their goods upon vitious hostelars,... which are oft uncleane women of their bodies." 4 In some such inn, the " Cheker of the Hope" (hoop) in Canterbury, the continuator of Chaucer leads his pilgrims, and shows how the pardoner's advances to Kit the tapster had the edifying result of getting for him many more blows than caresses. 5 In London it was forbidden by the king to keep open I Riley's " Memorials of London," p. 386. ' Ed. Barack, Nurenberg, 1858; Fr. translation by Magnin, Paris, i?45. 3 F. Michel and E. Foumier, " La Grande Boheme" 1, pp.
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