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English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century)

Note 163 — Chapter II · THE ORDINARY TRAVELLER AND THE CASUAL PASSER-BY

Lucy Toulmin Smith translation

Both sorts generally lived by themselves, but the recluse never left his cell while the hermit could roam about. “Issue Roll of Thomas de Brantingham,” ed. Devon, p. 393, 44 Ed. III; the same king gives also 20s. “in aid of her support” to “Alice de Latimer a recluse anchorite,” ibid. p. xxxvi.

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