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The Coming of the Friars 



And other Mediaeval Sketches 



BY AUGUSTUS JESSOPP, D.D. 



Fourteenth Impression. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



M The papers which show Dr. Jessopp at his best are, without doubt 

 that on 'Village Life Six Hundred Years Ago' and the two on 'The 

 Black Death in East Anglia.' These reveal that historic imagination, that 

 power of making the past live again, of taking one beyond the record of 

 the court roll to the man who signed the deed or the suitors who formed 

 the court, and finding out how they lived and what they did, which Dr. 

 Jessopp possesses, perhaps, in a unique degree. Nothing can be more 

 telling than these essays, with their light touches of humour." Athenaeum. 



" The antiquarian information is conveyed in the most attractive form 

 by a writer who has nothing of a dry-as-dust in his composition except 

 the zeal and the patience of investigation, while the East Anglian colouring 

 gives that individuality and precision to the descriptions which materially 

 assist the imagination to realise with distinctness the required pictures. 

 Another peculiar charm of Dr. Jessppp's writings is the freshness of his 

 sympathies. . . . Always lively, picturesque, and suggestive, he is in 

 living touch with existing realities, and uses his historic gleanings to 

 illustrate by contrast or by resemblance some present condition of modern 

 society." Guardian. 



"In the present volume Dr. Jessopp has developed a power almost 

 equal to that of the author of ' John Inglesant,' of catching the tone of a 

 generation that has passed away, and of depicting the condition of Eng- 

 land in the Middle Ages, unhidden by a veneer of modern conventionalism. 

 ... It would be difficult to find a more graphic picture of old English 

 life, or one in which even the driest facts of history are presented in a 

 more attractive garb." Morning Post. 



"It is delightful to have them thus collected, for few writers have 

 Dr. Jessopp's gift of painting to the life. His ' Village Life Six Hundred 

 Years Ago' is as graphic and as truthful as one of Richard Jefferies's 

 sketches of to-day. His papers on 'The Black Death' and on 'The 

 Building of a University ' are full of teaching ; and no one has ever 

 discassed with more intelligent appreciation that mediaeval Salvation 

 Army of which Franciscans and Dominicans were the two main corps." 

 Graphic. 



" The glimpses into the social life of the past afforded by these essays 

 will impress all who reflect for a moment upon the marvellous growth of 

 England." Daily Chronicle. 



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