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Glimmerings in the Dark; Or, Lights and Shadows of the Olden Time

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 58 LETTER CARRIERS AND THEIR PAY. contain entries of money paid to messengers for the transmission of a letter. On the 18th of February, 1298, fifty shillings were paid to Lorekin, for bringing news to the Countess of Holland, of her husband's safe arrival, in his own country. In the reign of Edward the Second, William Galayn was rewarded with twenty shillings, for conveying a letter to the king, and the same amount was paid for bringing a letter from Florence: this sum, be it remembered, was equivalent to near forty pounds, at present. f An entry occurs in the household roll of the Countess Eleanor, wife of Simon de Montfort, for the year 1268, of the payment of a messenger to convey a letter from the young Lady Eleanora to Prince Edward. The countess constantly corresponded with her sons, and several items occur of sums paid to the messengers; two shillings were paid to convey a letter from Odiham to York.J The letters of the Lady Eleanor are still preserved in the Tower, but although addressed to familiar friends, they are not the outpourings of the heart. We can detect no household simplicity in the pedantic diction of the secular epistles of the middle ages; there was no such thing as letter writing among the people; no domestic, well to do in London, wrote tidings to Wardrobe accounts of Edward the First?Additional MSS. in Brit. Mus. No. 7965. f Arclueologia, vol. xxvi. p. 320. J Additional MSS. in Brit. Mus. No. 8877, a parchment roll twenty feet long; its contents throws considerable light upon the social condition of the thirteenth century. EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE. 59 her country cousin; such luxuries were peculiar to the rich; not that even the wealthy wrote with their own hand, or indicted in their own language: probably the majority of the proud n...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217257992
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 80
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217257992
  • Publisher Date: 18 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 159 gr

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