NOTE ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS

The illustrations on pp. 28, 75, and 118 are taken from Royal MS. 10. E.

iv. (of the fourteenth century) in the British Museum, where they occur

on folios 34 _verso_, 215 _recto_, and 254 _recto_ respectively. The

designs in the original form a decorated margin at the foot of each

page, and are outlined in ink and roughly tinted in three or four

colours. Much use is made of them in the illustrations to J. J.

Jusserand's _English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages_, where

M. Jusserand rightly points out that this MS. 'has perhaps never been so

thoroughly studied as it deserves.'

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