It is, however, as applied to lodging-house keepers our many enrolled ‘Herbert le Herberjurs,’ ‘Roger le Herberers,’ ‘William le Herbers,’ or ‘Richard le Harebers,’ are met with, and I doubt not our ‘Harbers’ and ‘Harbours’ are their offspring. In this sense the word is used by our mediæval writers in all its forms, whether verb, or adjective, or substantive. Tyndale’s version of Romans xii. 13 is, ‘Be ready to harbour,’ where we now have it ‘given to hospitality.’ Bishop Coverdale, speaking of the grave, says—‘_There_ is the harborough of all flesh; there lie the rich and the poor in one bed’ (_Fruitful Lessons_). He adds also, in another place, that Abraham was ‘liberal, merciful, and harborous’—_i.e._, ready to entertain strangers (_The Old Faith_). Bradford, too, to give but one more quotation, prays God may ‘sweep the houses of our hearts, and make them clean, that they may be a worthy harborough and lodging for the Lord’ (_Bradford’s Works_). Market Harborough still preserves this old word and its true sense from being forgotten. With the bearers, therefore, of the above names we may ally our ‘Inmans’ and ‘Taverners.’ The latter term is frequently found in early writings, and was evidently in ordinary use for the occupation— Ryght as of a tavernere The grene busche that hangeth out Is a sygne, it is no dowte, Outward folkys for to telle That within is wyne to selle. While, however, the tavern has undergone but little change, the inn has. With our present Bible an inn is ever a lodging, and this was once the sole idea the term conveyed. It was not for casual callers by day, but for lodgers by night. Thus Chaucer in his ‘Knight’s Tale’ uses the verb— This Theseus, this duk, this worthy knight, When he had brought them into his cite, And ynned them, everich (each) at his degre He festeth them.