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Old and New London
… Chaucer's London CHAPTER LI. CHAUCER'S LONDON. London Denizens in the Reigns of Edward … ClerkThe FranklinThe ShipmanThe Poor Parson. The London of Chaucer's time (the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II.) …
Old and New London
… him on his display of energy on this occasion. Chaucer speaks of the restless 'prentices of Cheap (Edward … de Medicis.) Lydgate, that dull Suffolk monk, who followed Chaucer, though at a great distance, has, in his ballad of …
Old and New London
… and Grosvenor heraldic controversy (Edward III.) the poet Chaucer is recorded as giving the following evidence … almost the only authentic scrap we possess of the facts of Chaucer's life. The "White Horse," a tavern in Friday Street, …
Survey of London
… example of a Tudor monument, and closely resembles that of Chaucer in Westminster Abbey, erected by Brigham in 1556. It … tomb does not appear to have filled the recess but, like Chaucer's tomb, a space was left at the west end for the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by M. R. James for the Roxburghe Club) and a 15th-century Chaucer. 127 In a room above the cloister is preserved the …
Chronicles of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London
… known in France as bureau. Hence the ' borel man' of Chaucer; a person of the humbler classes, who wore this cloth. …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… or the dowry at the church door: and from hence the poet Chaucer, who lived in Edward the Third's time, in his Wife of …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… held there, in which the lawyers often pleaded, even in Chaucer's time, who mentions A Sargeant at Lawe, ware, t …
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I
… le Caretter, John le Clerc, Henry atte Burn, John le Chaucer, and Thomas de Makeresgate from prison without delay, …
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I
… imprisoned at Neugate for a trespass against John le Chaucer of London, whereof they were convicted before John …