Resumen de Jetties, Pentices, Purprestures, and Ordure: Obstacles to Pageants and Processions in London
Pageants, processions and Royal Entries were regular and significant occurrences in the streets of London between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, but the streets were perhaps surprisingly unsuited for such events. The condition of most roads, streets and lanes was very poor: a mixture of paved and unpaved surfaces, soil, gravel, stones, domestic waste, trade waste, mud, and dung. In addition to such conditions under foot, the clear passageway along these thoroughfares was often encroached upon by indiscriminate additions to buildings which had hitherto formed the natural boundaries of streets.
