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English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century)

Note 82 — Chapter I · ROADS AND BRIDGES

Lucy Toulmin Smith translation

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.”

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