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the wives are associated as parties. 1 Were the wives, one 
is tempted to ask, assisting their husbands in the dyeing of 
materials, in order to purchase the required number of 
horses? 
Observation has been made that some of the burgesses 
owned property outside of London, and that one man in 
particular 2 held lands in Kent. This at once raises the ques¬ 
tion in what part of Kent, and if along the Pilgrim’s Road. 
One interesting entry to the student of Chaucer is preserved. 
In 1374 Giles de Kelseye 3 , “tapicer”, and citizen of London, 
Thomas Hermesthorp, formerly a parson of London, and 
William Bollok receive from the latter’s brother John, a 
“tapicer,” “lands, rents and services in Hallyng, Cokelston 
and Rochester.” 4 5 Hallyng lay six miles south of Rochester, 
and Cokeleston apparently was on the Isle of Sheppey. 
Rochester, of course, was the chief city between London 
and Canterbury, and readers of Chaucer will recall the Host’s 
“Lo! Rouchestre” 6 uttered with evident national pride. 
Possession of property along the Pilgrim’s Road was com¬ 
mon enough. Highly interesting is the fact that a number 
of the poet’s fellow Justices of Peace owned land along the 
route, and in some cases actually lived on the Road. At 
Ospringe, for example, Sir Arnold Savage, Robert Bealknap, 
and others acquired a manor in 1374. 6 Thomas Shardelowe 
lived at Hartford. 7 Arnold Savage was of an old family 
that had long been settled two miles from Sittingbourne 8 (at 
1 A complete translation of the Articles is set forth in the History of 
the Leathersellers Company, by W. H. Black, London, 1871, pp. 15 ff. 
Cf. Letter-Book , G, p. 293. The Dyers were somewhat notorious, also, 
for cheating their customers. This complaint was included in the Articles. 
The names of the Dyers are: “John Blackthorne and Agnes his wife, 
Robert Whitynge and Lucy his wife, and Richard Westone, ‘dier,* 
and Katherine his wife.” 
2 Dyk. See supra. 
3 See supra. 
4 Cal. Close Rolls, 1374-7, pp. 96 f. In his will he makes bequests to 
Dyk and his wife, and to his sister,—the wife of Kelseye (Cal. of Wills, 
etc., II. p. 179). This intimacy between people of the same guild is not 
without interest. 
5 B. 3116. 
6 Cal. Close Rolls, 1374-7, pp. 107 ff. Ospringe was one of the halting- 
places for pilgrims. Dartford and Rochester were the other two. See 
Skeat, V. p. 415. 
7 Cal. Pat. Rolls , 1381-5, p. 409. 
8 Die. Natl. Biog ., L. p. 335. On Sittingbourne see D. 847. 
