Kuhl — Chaucer's Burgesses . 
675 
Money frequently was left for persons to make pilgrim¬ 
ages to shrines. In one will, made by a vintner in 1361, 
twenty shillings were left to anyone willing to walk to 
Canterbury “with naked feet;” 1 forty shillings to anyone 
willing to go to “S. Mary de Walsingham.” 2 A silver girdle 
and forty shillings are left in 1373 by a brewer to anyone 
who will go to Santiago 3 (Spain). Ten marks are left in 
1376 by a woolmonger for the like purpose 4 (to Santiago). 
A mercer in 1384 leaves bequests for sending two pilgrims 
to Rome, there to remain forty days. 5 A draper, in 1383, 
makes provision for someone to go to Rome in case he die 
before he can perform the vow in person. 6 A poulterer in 
1397 makes provision for sending a pilgrim to Rome. 7 It 
will be observed that no one belonging to a small non¬ 
victualling company left a will of this sort. Drapers and 
mercers, of course, were among the wealthiest. The vic¬ 
tuallers, however, fared particularly well in Chaucer’s day,— 
even as to-day. 
1 Cal. Wills, II. p. 41. Cf. p. 105. 
2 Ibid., p. 107. 
» Ibid., p. 163. 
« Ibid., p. 221. 
• Ibid., p. 243. 
• Ibid., p. 251. 
» Ibid., p. 335. 
