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English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century)

Chapter 42: XIV (p. 321) SERMON ACCOM­PANY­ING THE DIS­PLAY OF A PAP­AL BULL (ON THE OC­CA­SION OF THE COM­ING OF HEN­RY OF LAN­CAS­TER)
By J. J. Jusserand
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A scholarly survey reconstructs the nomadic and itinerant aspects of fourteenth-century English life by foregrounding petitions, year-books, statutes, and other archival records rather than relying solely on literary accounts. It traces routes of travelers, the institutions and informal customs that regulated movement, and the economic, legal, and social encounters that punctuated journeys, from markets and fairs to inns and courts. Close readings of documentary evidence illuminate dangers, hospitality practices, and administrative responses, while pen-and-ink sketches and examples illustrate daily patterns and the methodological case for archival reconstruction.

XIV (p. 321) SERMON ACCOM­PANY­ING THE DIS­PLAY OF A PAP­AL BULL (ON THE OC­CA­SION OF THE COM­ING OF HEN­RY OF LAN­CAS­TER)

“ ‘Mes bonnes gens, entendez tous ici.
Vous savez bien coment le roy banny
A, à grant tort, vostre seigneur Henry,
Et sans raison;
Et pource j’ay fait impetracion
Au saint père, qui est nostre patron,
Que trestous ceulx auront rémission
De leurs péchiez
De quoy oncques ilz furent entachiez,
De puis l’eure qu’ilz furent baptisiez,
Qui leur aideront tous certains en suez
Celle journée;
Et vesenci la bulle seellée,
Que le pappe de romme la louée
M’a envoié, et pour vous tous donnée,
Mes bons amis.
Vueilliez lui donc aidier ses ennemis
A conquerre, et vous en serez mis
Avecques ceux qui sont en paradis
Après la mort.’
Lors veissiez jeune, viel, feble, et fort
Murmure faire, et par commun accort,
Sans regarder ni le droit ni le tort,
Eulx émouvoir,
Cuidant que ce c’on leur fist assavoir
Feust vérité, tous le courent de voir;
Car de sens n’ont guères ne de savoir,
De telz y a.
L’arcevesque ce conseil cy trouva.”

“French metrical history of the deposition of King Richard II,” by Créton, edited and translated into English by Rev. J. Webb. “Archæologia,” t. xx. p. 310.

This speech is attributed by the chronicler to Thomas Arundel, {440} Archbishop of Canterbury, and is supposed to have been delivered at the time of the landing of Henry of Lancaster in 1399 (Henry IV).