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A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… later duke of Bedford, 7 who probably sold it to Thomas Chaucer (d. 1434) and his wife Maud (d. 1437), the owners of … Park Corner. 5 Probably the new park was created by Thomas Chaucer (d. 1434), who had recently acquired Swyncombe manor, … transfer to the Chaucers of neighbouring Ewelme. 1 Thomas Chaucer witnessed a land grant at Swyncombe in 1408, perhaps …
Survey of London
… a second stream, Earl's Sluice, crossed the road and where Chaucer's pilgrims halted to decide who should tell the first …
A History of the County of Surrey
… but of which a great part was an inn in the modern sense. Chaucer's pilgrims lay 'in Southwerk at the Taberd' before … Inq. p.m. 31 Edw. I, no. 427; Cal. Pat. 13017, p. 436. Chaucer, Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Chan. Inq. p.m. 17 …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… the appointment to take effect after the death of Thomas Chaucer, but in 1449 he was accused of having 'furnished the … R. v, 176, 177. She was Alice, the daughter of Thomas Chaucer, who had previously married Thomas Earl of Salisbury …
Survey of London
… London, whose buildings are in need of no small repair." Chaucer's "gentil Pardoner of Rouncival that streight was …
Survey of London
… Convent, the "Scole of Stratford atte bowe" mentioned by Chaucer in the description of the Nonne Prioresse in the …
Old and New London
… and its toothed ornaments. And in the old times, when Chaucer was young, and his Canterbury Pilgrims were men and … traveller in various countries. He collected the works of Chaucer, John Lydgate, and other learned writers, 'which …
A Survey of London
… Henrie Scogan, a learned Poet, in the Cloyster: Geffrey Chaucer, the most famous Poet of England, also in the …
Old and New London
… existed near the Abbey. As Mr. Matthew Browne remarks in "Chaucer's England:""It is not difficult for a man who wanders …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… collegge' of the Reeve's Tale, was King's Hall: Geoffrey Chaucer, Complete Works, ed. Skeat, 1894, vol. 5, note to …