| I | PAGE |
| The Old Road | 1 |
| The Boy with the Woolpack | 3 |
| How Robert Edrupt journeyed with the wool-merchants to London |
| II |
| The Biographer | 13 |
| Basil the Scribe | 15 |
| How an Irish monk in an English Abbey came to stand before Kings |
| III |
| Venetian Glass | 27 |
| The Picture in the Window | 29 |
| How Alan of the Abbey Farms learned to make stained glass |
| IV |
| Troubadour’s Song | 41 |
| The Grasshoppers’ Library | 43 |
| How Ranulph le ProvenÇal ceased to be a minstrel and became a troubadour |
| V |
| The Wood-Carver’s Vision | 55 |
| The Box that Quentin Carved | 57 |
| How Quentin of Peronne learned his trade when a boy in Amiens |
| VI |
| The Caged Bouverel | 69 |
| At the Sign of the Gold Finch | 71 |
| How Guy, the goldsmith’s apprentice, won the desire of his heart |
| VII |
| Up Anchor | 79 |
| The Venture of Nicholas Gay | 81 |
| How Nicholas Gay, the merchant’s son, kept faith with a stranger and served the King |
| VIII |
| London Bells | 93 |
| Barbara, the Little Goose-girl | 95 |
| How Barbara sold geese in the Chepe and what fortune she found there |
| IX |
| Harper’s Song | 105 |
| Richard’s Silver Penny | 107 |
| How Richard sold a web of russet and made the best of a bad bargain |
| X |
| Perfumer’s Song | 119 |
| Mary Lavender’s Garden | 121 |
| How Mary Lavender came to be of service to an exiled Queen |
| XI |
| Pavement Song | 131 |
| Saint Crispin’s Day | 133 |
| How Crispin, the shoemaker’s son, made a shoe for a little damsel, and new streets in London |
| XII |
| Concealed Weapons | 143 |
| The Lozenges of Giovanni | 145 |
| How a Milanese baker-boy and a Paduan physician kept poison out of the King’s dish |
| XIII |
| A Song of Birds and Beasts | 157 |
| A Dyke in the Danelaw | 159 |
| How David le Saumond changed the course of an ancient nuisance |
| XIV |
| London Bridge | 171 |
| At Bartlemy Fair | 173 |
| How Barty Appleby went to the fair at Smithfield and caught a miscreant |
| XV |
| Midsummer Day in England | 185 |
| Edwitha’s Little Bowl | 187 |
| How Edwitha found Roman pottery in the field of a Sussex farm |
| XVI |
| Song of the Tapestry Weavers | 195 |
| Looms in Minchen Lane | 197 |
| How Cornelys Bat, the Flemish weaver, befriended a black sheep and saved his wool |
| XVII |
| The Wishing Carpet | 209 |
| The Herbalist’s Brew | 211 |
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