Note 532 — Chapter III · PILGRIMS AND PILGRIMAGES
Lucy Toulmin Smith translation
William Wey, in the fifteenth century, notices the large number of English ships at “Grwne” (Coruña), the usual port of landing for Compostela: “In porto Grwne erant de Anglicis, Wallicis, Hibernicis, Normannis, Francis, Britonnibus et aliis LXXXta naves cum topcastellis et quatuor sine topcastellis; numerus navium Anglicarum erat XXXij.” He notes the words and music of a song sung by little Spanish boys, dancing before pilgrims and offering good wishes, in exchange for which they hoped to get some small coin. “Itineraries,” Roxburghe Club, 1857, pp. 154, 156.