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    A Canterbury Pilgrimage
    A Canterbury Pilgrimage
    A Canterbury Pilgrimage
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    A Canterbury Pilgrimage

    By Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Joseph Pennell

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      A Canterbury Pilgrimage - Elizabeth Robins Pennell

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      Title: A Canterbury Pilgrimage

      Author: Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth Robins Pennell

      Release Date: June 11, 2011 [eBook #36383]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A CANTERBURY PILGRIMAGE***

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      A Canterbury Pilgrimage

      This work is Copyright in England and America.

      A Canterbury

      Pilgrimage.

      Ridden, written, and illustrated

      by Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell.

      London: Published by Seeley and Company,

      xlvi. xlvii. xlviii. Essex Street. Mdccclxxxv.

      TO

      Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson,

      We, who are unknown to him,

      dedicate this record of one of our short

      journeys on a Tricycle,

      in gratitude for the happy hours we have spent

      travelling with him and his Donkey.

      We do not think our book needs an apology, explanation, or preface; nor does it seem to us worth while to give our route-form, since the road from London to Canterbury is almost as well known to cyclers as the Strand, or the Lancaster Pike; nor to record our time, since we were pilgrims and not scorchers. And as for non-cyclers, who as yet know nothing of time and roads, we would rather show them how pleasant it is to go on pilgrimage than weary them with cycling facts.

      Joseph Pennell.

      Elizabeth Robins Pennell.

      36 Bedford Place,

      May 14th, 1885 .

      First Day

      Folk do go on Pilgrimage through Kent.

      A

      CANTERBURY PILGRIMAGE

      It was towards the end of August, when a hot sun was softening the asphalt in the dusty streets of London, and ripening the hops in the pleasant land of Kent, that we went on pilgrimage to Canterbury. Ours was no ordinary journey by rail, which is the way latter-day pilgrims mostly travel. No. What we wanted was in all reverence to follow, as far as it was possible, the road taken by the famous company of bygone days, setting out from the hostelrie where these lordings lay one night and held counsel, making stations by the way at the few places they mention by name, and ending it, as they did, at the shrine of the ‘holy, blissful martyr,’ in the Canterbury Cathedral. How better could this be done than by riding over the ground made sacred by them on our tricycle?

      And so it came to pass that one close, foggy morning, we strapped our bags to our machine and wheeled out of Russell Square before any one was stirring but the policeman, making his last rounds and trying door after door. Down Holborn and past Staples’ Inn, very grey and venerable in the pale light, and where the facetious driver of a donkey-cart tried to race us; past the now silent and deserted cloisters of Christ’s Hospital, and under Bow Bells in Cheapside; past the

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