ILLUSTRATIONS With one exception, the illustrations (including those re-cut in wood) have been selected from the magnificent collection of illuminated manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, and are here reproduced by the permission of the College Council. PLATES I. (a) "The three naked souls" facing p. 10 MS. B. n. 7, folio io8v (b) Asking the way MS. B. ii. 5, folio 47 II. The peasant at work 82 MS. B. ii. 31, folios 2,6,7,10 III. Country Sport 94 MS. B. ii. 22, folios 39 v, 59 v, 67, 68 v IV. The thresher and the swineherd 184 MS. B. 11.31, folios 8, ii V. Domestic scenes 234 MS. B. ii. 22, folios 25 v, 37 v, 92 v, 144 v, 169 VI. The Last Judgment «* 324 MS.B. 11.4, folios v WOODCUTS Peasant transport 75 MS. B. ii. 22, folio 12 v God speed the plough 96 (From a MS. of Piers Plowman) MSfR. 3. 14, folio 3 v The overseer's rod 125 (From "Queen Mary's Psalter" in the British Museum) Carrying to the mill 127 MS, B. ii. 22, folio 29 v