“Par ces tavernes chacun jour, Vous en trouveriez à séjour, Beuvans là toute la journée Aussi tost que ont fait leur journée. Maint y aconvient aler boire: Là despendent, c’est chose voire, Plus que toute jour n’ont gaigné. * * * * * Là ne convient il demander S’ilz s’entrebatent quand sont yvres; Le prévost en a plusieurs livres D’amande tout au long de l’an. * * * * * Et y verriés de ces gallans Oyseux qui tavernes poursuivent, Gays et jolis.” “Le Livre de la mutacion de fortune,” Bk. iii, MS. Fr. 603, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Christine de Pisan’s “Œuvres poétiques,” are being published by the “Société de Anciens textes Français,” ed. Maurice Roy, 1886 ff. [155] “Elynour Rummynge.” “Poetical Works of John Skelton,” ed. Dyce, 1843, vol. i. p. 95. [156] Jurors find in 1375 that the bridge in the midst of the causey between Brant Broughton and Lincoln was primarily made “by a certain hermit after the first pestilence,” and consisted “in a board placed above the ford” which had to be waded through: “Jurati dicunt supra sacramentum suum . . . quod pons predictus post primam pestilenciam ibidem primo per quendam heremitum factus fuit, ponendo tabulam ultra quoddam vadum in medio calceti predicti.” Complete text in C. T. Flower, “Public Works in Mediæval Law,” Selden Society, 1915, i. 263. [157] “Roman de Renart,” Branch viii. ed. Martin i. p. 267. On the outcome of this confession, see further, Part iii. chap. iii. [158] The son of a mayor of York; d. about 1235. Miracles are said to have been worked at the Knaresborough hermitage, Yorkshire, where he had lived and was buried. [159] “English Prose Treaties,” ed. Perry, E.E.T.S., 1866, pp. xv, xvi. Rolle died in 1349. [160] Ibid. p. 5. [161] Another example still in existence is the hermitage at Warkworth, Northumberland, partly of masonry and partly scooped out of the rock. It was apparently enlarged by its successive inhabitants, but seems from the style of the windows and carvings to belong mostly to the fourteenth century. [162] “The Metrical Life of Saint Robert of Knaresborough,” ed. Haslewood and Douce, Roxburghe Club, 1824, p. 36. Cf. “Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi asservati,” ed. T. D. Hardy, 1837, p. 158, where King John is seen bestowing on one Robert, in 1205, “locum in quo heremitorium sancte Wereburge sedet” (the famous St. Werburga, abbess of Ely, seventh century). He does so “pro amore Dei et pro salute anime nostre.” He grants, “in puram et perpetuam elemosinam,” the “heremitorium de Godeland” to the monks of Whitby, Oct. 26, 1205, ibid, p. 159. [163] Both sorts generally lived by themselves, but the recluse never left his cell while the hermit could roam about. “Issue Roll of Thomas de Brantingham,” ed. Devon, p. 393, 44 Ed. III; the same king gives also 20s. “in aid of her support” to “Alice de Latimer a recluse anchorite,” ibid. p. xxxvi.