  - PREFACE •7
- TABLE OF CONTENTS •11
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS •13
- INTRODUCTION •23
- PART I —— ENGLISH ROADS
- I. ROADS AND BRIDGES •29
- II. THE ORDINARY TRAVELLER AND THE CASUAL PASSER-BY •90
- III. SECURITY OF THE ROADS •149
- PART II —— LAY WAYFARERS
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE •181
- I. HERBALISTS, CHARLATANS, MINSTRELS, JUGGLERS, AND TUMBLERS •183
- II. MESSENGERS, ITINERANT MERCHANTS AND PEDLARS •223
- III. OUTLAWS, WANDERING WORKMEN, AND PEASANTS OUT OF BOND •254
- PART III —— RELIGIOUS WAYFARERS
- I. WANDERING PREACHERS AND FRIARS •283
- II. THE PARDONERS •312
- III. PILGRIMS AND PILGRIMAGES
- 1. Pilgrimages, their motives: to fulfil a vow, to spite the king, to regain health •338
- 2. Principal English pilgrimages; the one of European celebrity, St. Thomas of Canterbury •346
- 3. Piety, merriment, abuses. Real and false relics. Signs and brooches. Pilgrim stories. Honest and false pilgrims •357
- 4. Pilgrimages beyond sea, Calais, Boulogne, Chartres, Rocamadour, St. James of Compostela, Cologne, Rome. Offerings left and indulgences gained. Helping gilds. Faith, superstition, and scepticism. Pilgrimages by proxy •370
- 5. The holy journey to Jerusalem. Pilgrims in the days of St. Jerome. Pilgrims in arms, the crusades. Itineraries and Journals. “Mandeville,” William Wey, the lord of Anglure •395
- CONCLUSION •419
- APPENDIX •423
- I. Patent of King John entrusting a French cleric with the completion of London Bridge, 1201 •425
- II. Petition concerning an old bridge, with arches too low and too narrow to allow boats to pass, 1442 •426
- III. London Bridge and its maintenance •427
- IV. Inquests as to the maintenance of bridges, temp. Ed. I and Ed. II •429
- V. The King’s journeys. Petitions and statutes concerning the Royal Purveyors •430
- VI. The recurrence of leet-days and visits of Justices •431
- VII. The dress of the worldly monk •432
- VIII. Noblemen’s exactions when travelling •433
- IX. Passage of the Humber in a ferry •433
- X. The right of sanctuary •434
- XI. A monopoly of minstrelsy for the King’s own minstrels •435
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