Chair of the Ninth or Tenth Century
The Curule Chair
... thrust a leaden bodkin into the head of that image
‘... called secretly at the chamber dore’
‘... cast her into a cauldron’
‘... compellyd them for to devour the same writte’
‘... constructed a pantomime dragon on the pattern of the real article’
'... crossed to England’'
... caused to sytte down and in large wyse to gape
... sware ‘gret othes’ and took himself by the hair
Robert Berewold in the pillory
The unfortunate “fowle” was “hurten so sore”’
sat for its portrait to Matthew Paris
A young novice of the priory
A ‘herauld’
Pilgrims
‘The broken bough fell on the head of a man standing down below’
‘The tiger and the mirror’
‘The young Edward III.’
‘When a lion looks at you it becomes a leopard’
‘Dymoke of Scrivelsby’
‘Hakeney’
‘He incontinently fled’
‘Henry’s badge’
‘St. Piran’
‘latten “Agnus Dei”’
‘... playing innumerable pranks’
‘... showed him his injuries’
‘... thrust him out of the church’
‘... with drawn swords stood in the doorway’
‘A wonderful sight’
‘An impromptu entertainment by three minstrels’
‘Diabolus ligatus’
‘... failed to identify the geese’
‘... fully armed with swords and bucklers’
‘... got his arms round a branch’
‘... gyrd abowte his bodye in iij places with towells and gyrdylls’
‘... led through the middle of the city’
‘... ducking him in a horse-pond’
Angler
fysshynge
fysshynge
fysshynge
Saxon Horsemen
Bear-baiting
Arbalest
Arbalester
Canon with Aumuse
An Ale-stake
Mounted Crossbowman
Crossbowmen
A store of crossbow bolts, shafts and heads
Crossbowman approaching game
How a crossbowman should approach animals
Arbalestina
Crossbowmen
A ship of war, wth crossbowmen
Crossbowmen
Crossbowmen
An 11th century knight, after the Bayeux tapestry