More British numbers

[Joe & MJ]

Well, I eat my words. After saying that I couldn't find anything with "real"
numbers, I found the previously mentioned article by Brian Tate. And after
thinking about it I remembered that Constance Storrs was at one time the
"grande dame" of British scholarship regarding pilgrimage to Compostela. It
seems that one area where we can be fairly certain of numbers is from the
British Isles because they had to get off the isles by boat and the shipping
records are fairly complete and relatively accessible.

Here's what we wrote about what Ms. Storrs wrote:

"Jacobean Pilgrims from England from the Early Twelfth to the Late Fifteenth
Century." Diss. London: Univ. of London, 1964. London Senate House Library.
        **Seminal work about English travel, licensing, preparations, land and sea
travel. Appendices include list of names of ships with charters to sail to
Compostela (1235-1484), licenses to convey pilgrims to Compostela (14 & 15th
centuries), and known pilgrims from England (1107-1484).
        We had heard that this work would be published by the Xunta de Galicia,
Brian Tate, ed. in 1994, but I'm uncertain whether it was.

Also:
Storrs & F.R. Cordero Carrete. "Peregrinos ingleses a Santiago en el siglo
XIV." Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos 20.60 (1965): 193-224.
        Brief discussion, chronologically organized, of 14th-c. English pilgrims to
Compostela with some information on legal permissions and protections
received....The authors calculate approximately 3600 [English] pilgrims
during the [14th] century.

Hope this is of use. By these calculations there were only approximately 40
British pilgrims to Compostela per year in the 1300s, a surprisingly low
number I think.
Maryjane

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