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Old and New London
… from a brook or spring, dedicated to St. Thomas Becket. Chaucer's pilgrims, as we have seen in a previous chapter, 2 …
Survey of London
… St. Leonard's, the "Convent of Stratford atte Bowe" of Chaucer's Prioress' Tale, on the site of which is now the …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… has undergone little or no alteration in its appearance. Chaucer is said to have often slept in it. See Gostling's …
Old and New London
… bishops and clergymen. He was interred next Geoffrey Chaucer and near Spenser." A good story is told, the scene of …
Old and New London
… of the Thames. "Of the London and Westminster of Chaucer's time," writes Mr. Matthew Browne in his pleasant work, "Chaucer's England," "there is little which the poet, however …
Old and New London
… place, too, is not without its literary associations, for Chaucer wrote some of his poems in the Savoy. It was here … of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and of the poet Chaucer. Some of the coal-sheds, indeed, stand there still; …
The Cartulary of Holy Trinity, Aldgate
… daughter of John, Hamon's brother, and she married John Chaucer, citizen and vintner, and they, by charter 2 enrolled …
Old and New London
… Southwark without visiting the 'Tabard' inn, from whence Chaucer's nine-and-twenty jovial pilgrims set out for …
Old and New London
… receive its name from a word which, in the language of Chaucer, had an amorous signification: "Of bataile and of …
Old and New London
… Lillerton Wood to keep up the church fires. In this reign Chaucer, who is supposed to have been a student of the Middle … this manciple sett 'hir aller cappe." In the Middle Temple Chaucer is supposed to have formed the acquaintanceship of … ad astera virtus," a recondite allusion to men, like Chaucer and Gower, who, it is said, had turned from lawyers …