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Old and New London
… of Dormer, Earl of Carnarvon. In the year 1399, Geoffrey Chaucer, "the first illuminer of the English language," … Tavern, which abutted on the old Lady Chapel of the Abbey. Chaucer held the office of Clerk of the King's Works, and was … Selby tells us in the Introduction to his "Life Records of Chaucer," thus demanding "the wager of battle." A duel was …
Finance and trade under Edward III
… vj s viij d Thomas le Brus ij s viij d Tehobaldus le Chaucer vj s Will le Taverner Chaucer xij s Richd de Berkyng xxvj s viij d Stephus de …
Finance and trade under Edward III
… cheesemongers, 1 salter, 1 cook, 1 baker, 2 apothecaries 1 chaucer, 5 mercers, 2 woolmongers, 2 drapers, 2 tailors, 1 …
Old and New London
… and "The Elder Brother," in "Comus," by Mr. J. H. Foley; Chaucer's "Griselda," by Mr. Calder Marshall; "The Morning …
Old and New London
… man published the first edition of the entire works of Chaucer, in 1532. Strype mentions the monument of Humfry …
Old and New London
… deluded by impostors or fanatics to the same belief which Chaucer ridiculed so admirably. A modern essayist has …
Old and New London
… languages. In our own tongue it is at least as old as Chaucer and Froissart, who borrowed it from the French haquene, a slow-paced nag. At all events, in Chaucer's "Romaunt of the Rose," we find the phrase thus …
Old and New London
… are fields no more." As Mr. Matthew Browne writes in "Chaucer's England," we must "either be at a great distance …
Old and New London
… Virgil. The River LeaBow BridgeStratford-att Bowe, and Chaucer's Allusion theretoConstruction of the Road through … under which name it is immortalised by Chaucer, in the Prologue to the "Canterbury Tales," in terms …
Old and New London
… greatest oaths which men swore by in the Middle Ages. In Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," for instance, the carter, … hold up to the eyes of all what was absurd in them both. Chaucer wrote his "Rhyme of Sir Thopas" in ridicule of the …