2012, ISBN: 1130212963

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[EAN: 9781130212969], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: .was one of the most celebrated places to which pilgrimages were performed in the middle ages. In Pier's Plowman's Vision we read that "Hermits on a heap with hoked staves, Wenden to Walsingham, and ther wenches after." It was usual for pilgrims to bring away with them from these shrines leaden signs or some other token of their visit. These were generally of little or no intrinsic value, and were rudely executed in lead stamped with the figure of the saint, and carried in the hat of the male pilgrim as a "sign," or on the breast of the female as a " brooch." In the very curious museum of C. Roach Smith, Esq., F.S.A., is preserved one given to the pilgrims who visited the shrine of St. Thomas-a-Becket, at Canterbury, which has been engraved in the Archaeological Album, as well as in Mr. Smith's Collectanea Antigua, along with many other curious specimens British and foreign. Other examples are engraved in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association, vol. 1. Mr. Smith possesses a very curious leaden brooch of our lady of Walsingham; and in Miss Wood's Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of England, is one from Elizabeth Newhouse, to her son, Roger Wright, on the eve of the Reformation, telling him she had been this pilgrimage, adding, "I have no good token to send you at this time but a Walsingham brooch." Mr. Smith, in a later number of his Collectanea, notices that rings and other objects appear to have been manufactured in vast numbers, and sold to pilgrims and others who resorted to the shrine of the three kings of Cologne. One in brass found in London, reads, Iaspar. Melcior. Baltazar; another, in the possession of Mr. E. J. Carlos, has the two names only, Iaspar. Baltasar: these are believed to be cr.<