Pilgrimage by Proxy.
The Athenaeum, in reviewing a " Calender of Wills," made between 1658 and 1688, says :-" The singular custom of pilgrimage by proxy is well illustrated in these wills. A pilgrim oould be hired to travel .with naked feet to the shrine of St Thomas of Canterbury or St Mary of Walsingham for twenty shillings; seven pounds was the charge for a pilgrimage to St Jago de Compostella and twenty for the Holy Land with Mount Sinai thrown in. This latter sounds cheap at the price, but the testator may have had his misgivings, for he gives alternate directions if pilgrams cannot be obtained. Ten marks was a moderate sum for a pilgrimage to Rome, including a Lent of prayer to be spent there. I
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 2 January 1892, Page 3
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