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‘... sat for its portrait to Matthew Paris’ | Frontispiece |
‘A young novice of the priory’ | 10 |
Robert Berewold in the pillory | 15 |
... sware ‘gret othes’ and took himself by the hair | 21 |
‘... caused to sytte down and in large wyse to gape’ | 24 |
‘... thrust a leaden bodkin into the head of that image’ | 29 |
‘Diabolus ligatus’ | 38 |
‘A wonderful sight’ | 44 |
‘An impromptu entertainment by three minstrels’ | 48 |
Pilgrims | 53 |
‘St. Piran’ | 59 |
... crossed to England’ | 64 |
‘Henry’s badge’ | 69 |
A ‘herauld’ | 70 |
‘The young Edward III.’ | 76 |
Crowns ancient and modern | 78 |
‘Dymoke of Scrivelsby’ | 82 |
‘The tiger and the mirror’ | 87 |
‘... got his arms round a branch’ | 94 |
‘The broken bough fell on the head of a man standing down below’ | 95 |
‘... cast her into a cauldron’ | 102 |
‘... called secretly at the chamber dore’ | 110 |
‘... gyrd abowte his bodye in iij places with towells and gyrdylls’ | 113 |
‘... led through the middle of the city’ | 123 |
‘... failed to identify the geese’ | 132 |
‘... ducking him in a horse-pond’ | 141 |
‘... with drawn swords stood in the doorway’ | 145 |
‘He incontinently fled’ | 148 |
‘... compellyd them for to devour the same writte’ | 154 |
‘... thrust him out of the church’ | 156 |
‘latten “Agnus Dei”’ | 162 |
‘... playing innumerable pranks’ | 166 |
‘When a lion looks at you it becomes a leopard’ | 170 |
‘The unfortunate “fowle” was “hurten so sore”’ | 173 |
‘... constructed a pantomime dragon on the pattern of the real article’ | 179 |
‘Hakeney’ | 184 |
‘... showed him his injuries’ | 188 |
‘... fully armed with swords and bucklers’ | 191 |