As for the life on board, the inconveniences, the insects, the turbulent slaves, the sea-sickness, Felix spares us nothing. The earliest of our sea songs, belonging to nearly the same date, is an account of a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Saint Iago of Compostella. It is evidently the work of one who writes from experience. The ship is filled with pilgrims, and they are all sea-sick together:— “Men may leve all gamys, That saylen to Saint James’s; For many a man hilt gramys; When they begin to sayle. For when they have take the sea, At Sandwyche or at Wynchylsea, At Bristow, or where that hyt bee, Theyr hertes begin to fayle. Thys menewhyle the pylgryms lye, And have theyr bowlys fast them by, And cry afthyr hote malvesy, ‘Thou helpe for to restore.’ And soon sold have a saltyd tost, For they myght ete neyther sode ne rost, A man might sone pay for theyr cost, As for one day or twayne. Some layd their bookys on theyr kne, And rad so long they myght nat se: Alas! myne hede will cleve on thre! Thus sayeth another certayne.” The itinerary of two pilgrimages made by one English traveller still remains, and has been published by the Roxburghe Club. His name was William Wey, Bachelor of Divinity, formerly fellow of the Royal College of the most Blessed Mary at Eton beside Windsor. He travelled twice to Jerusalem, in 1458 and in 1462, and once to St. James of Compostella in 1465. He was “consecratus ad modum peregrinorum,” set apart by the special service: he received the license of the King, so that he was not to lose his fellowship by unauthorised absence; he left Eton to join the Augustines of Hedington, or Edinton; he made his last pilgrimage in the seventieth year of his age; and he died in the monastery in the year 1476 aged eighty-six. Evidently a strong man. He bequeathed, or gave, to the Brethren of Hedington, a great collection of valuable relics and curiosities from the Holy Land. Unfortunately he tells nothing of the start or the return, beginning his pilgrimage at Venice. Here there was a regular service of ships, where captains undertook to do the “round trip”—to Jerusalem and back—for so much. When he went to St. James of Compostella, there was a pilgrim fleet of six ships which sailed from Plymouth, viz. from Portsmouth, Bristol, Weymouth, Lymington, Plymouth—called the _Mary White_, and others—was this the annual pilgrim fleet? or was it only one of many such fleets?