Note 139 — Chapter II · THE ORDINARY TRAVELLER AND THE CASUAL PASSER-BY

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.