Virgin and Child House mouse Male dress

Male dress

Fulk de Cantelupe (d1217) and Henry de Cornhill (1120-1170) expel the monks of Canterbury Cathedral with drawn swords on the orders by King John in anger at the choice of Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury

quibus novae imprimis atque obscurae animalium species describuntur et observationibus iconibusque illustrantur by P S Pallas (The Hague

Mitre Street and St James's Place

A board large enough to hold all the pieces would have measured 82 centimetres across

Virgin and Child House mouse Male dressVirgin and Child, early 14th century. From the Psalter of Robert De Lisle. Illustration from School of Illumination, Reproductions from Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part III, English 1300 to 1350, (British Museum, Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1921).