Note 130 — Chapter II · THE ORDINARY TRAVELLER AND THE CASUAL PASSER-BY
Lucy Toulmin Smith translation
Ibid., iii. p. 82, A.D. 1379–80. The clergy, on the other hand, complain that the sheriffs sometimes come “with their wives and other excessive number of people on horseback as well as on foot,” to stay in monasteries, under pretext of collecting monies for the king. Ibid. p. 26, A.D. 1377.