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“The shrine of S. James, brother of S. John the Evangelist, whose body is said to have been brought from Compostella to Santiago in Galicia, Spain, was much frequented by pilgrims (who acquired the name Jacobitœ or Jacobipetœ1) as early as the ninth century. It seems also to have been regarded by citizens of London with especial favour, if we may judge from the wills before us. English travellers usually went thither direct by sea; the inconveniences of the voyage arising from overcrowding, sea-sickness, &c., have been graphically portrayed in a poem of the fifteenth century by one who had evidently experienced them2”

1 Fosbrooke, ‘British Monachism,’ p.469
2 The Stacions of Rome and the Pilgrim‘s Sea Voyage,’ ed. by Dr. Furnivall (Early Eng. Text 800., 1867).
[Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Husting, London, A.D. 1258-A.D. 1688: A.D. 1358-1688, 1890]

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