Information for Pilgrims unto the Holl Land. Edited by E.
Gordon Duff. (Lawrence and Bullen.)—The editor gives us an entertaining introduction on " Pilgrims " of old, beginning with St. Willibald (700-86), down to Richard Torkington, Rector of Mulberton, near Swainthorpe, in Norfolk, who started on his travels in 1513. The Information was printed for the first time by Wynkyn do Wordo in 1498, and was reprinted by him in 1515 and 1524. It begins with an Itinerary. This is followed by " Changes of Money from England to Rome and to Venice." The detailed instructions that come afterwards are curious and interesting. Mr. Duff quotes from a manuscript in Trinity College, Cambridge, some verses of a ballad which, as he says, show that the travellers of the fifteenth century differed little in their behaviour at sea from those of the nineteenth :— " For when that we shall go to bedde, Tho pumpo was nygli our bodde's hodo, A man were as good to be dede
As smell thereof tho atynk I "
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