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Old and New London
… transept; to be followed a few years later by Geoffrey Chaucer, who was interred at his feet. A brass effigy and a …
Old and New London
… and art. Here sleep in peace such celebrities as Chaucer, Dryden, Booth, Drayton, Edmund Spenser, Samuel … Ben Jonson: "My Shakespear, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont hie A little further off … the grave, and on its right and left, are the monuments of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Dryden, the three immortals who did …
Old and New London
… of Travellers," "The Fait of Armes and Chivalry," and Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." For Chaucer's memory Caxton had a special veneration, as he …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… left the interest of 200 to purchase bread for labourers. Chaucer, the poet, had the manor and advowson, which were …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… s.v. Reynes). Among the so-called relics with which Chaucer's Pardoner endeavoured to impose upon the credulous …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… of Noyon. Cf.: Hir grettest othe was but by Seynt Loy. Chaucer, Prol. 'Cant. Tales,' 120. 2 This same property, …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… it was not generally adopted till the time of Henry III. Chaucer thus describes the various articles of a knight's …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… S. Omer in Artois within the realm of France. Richard le Chaucer, vintner, and others appointed executors. Dated …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… leasehold interest in a tenement, held under Richard le chaucer and Mary his wife and Thomas her son, 14 near … Thoms's ed., p. 94). See note to the will of Richard le Chaucer, enrolled infra, Roll 77 (59). Alderman of Dowgate …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… name from a brook or spring dedicated to S. Thomas Becket. Chaucer mentions it in his 'Canterbury Tales' ( supra, p. 218 …