Written records
Pilgrim literature: Marjery Kempe; Sir Richard Guilford; pilgrim manual e.g William Wey “An English Pilgrim to Compostela” 1456
Records of visits to BSE: e.g. King Henry VI 1433
nb Literacy rates? Excluded groups, such as women
Commissioners’ reports during reformation
Wills
Records from takings at the Abbey?
Pilgrim badges and materials
Numbers of pilgrim badges Finds from British museum; Moyse Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Death rates?
Mortality rates from plague- devotion increased during crisis or calamity, but might have been instrumental in carrying disease, or reduced numbers due to illness and death?
Indirect evidence
Ronald C Finacune post-humous accounts of miracles
Art
Song/dance
Maps/roads/paths/rivers
Wall painting/churches
Personal walking experience; creative experience
Suffolk Pilgrim 