• Folios cxci - cciSept. 1350 -

the Mayor, Roger de Depham, Alderman, and Thomas de Waldene, the Chamberlain, to John ae Essex, fripperer. Sureties, viz., John Chaucer, 3 vintner, and Thomas de Same, tailor. A portion of the property of the wards consists of a lease

• Folios cclxxxvi - ccxci.Convictions for immorality, 1400-1439

thereof. [Fos. ccxc b, ccxci blank ] . Masters of Misteries sworn. One who summoned delinquentsto appear in (ecclesiastical) courts. Chaucer, it will be remembered, giveshis "sompnour" of 'The Canterbury Tales' a character for lechery. Decimo inserted after tercio .

• Errata

Adam May in Coronatorem Civitatis etc. Writ to the Mayor and Sheriffs to admit Adam May as deputy to Thomas Chaucer, the King's Chief Butler and ex officio Coroner of the City. Witness the King at Westminster, 25 Dec., 2

• Folios 21 - 30July 1424 -

to provide a remedy. Q'd cives sint residentes infra Civitat' qui lib'tat' gaudere volunt. Inspeximus of petition made by Thomas Chaucer, the King's Chief Butler, in the Parliament held at Westminster, anno 11 Henry IV., setting forth that from time

• Folios 41- 50Dec 1425 -

Folios 41- 50 Dec 1425 - Folio 41. Thursday, 13 Dec., 4 Henry VI. [A.D. 1425 ] , John Tonard, baker, arrested and brought before John Coventre, the Mayor, John Fray, the Recorder, William Crowmere, Henry Bartone, William

• Folios 61 - 701428 - 1429

Thomam Haseley in officium Coronator' London'. Writ to the Mayor and Sheriffs to admit Thomas Haseley as deputy to Thomas Chaucer, the King's Butler, and ex officio Coroner of the City. Witness the King at Westminster, 12 March, 7 Henry

• Folios 291 - 300Oct 1456 -

champioun She never mighte be thy tormentour; Thou never dreddest hir oppressioun Ne in hir chere founde thou no savour." Chaucer, Minor Poems, 'Fortune,' 382 (ed. Skeat). There had been a similar "horlynge betwene the mercers and Lombardes" during Marowe's

• IndexA - K

314 Chateris , John, 268 Chatertone , Herry, 16, 24 Chattok , William, 397 Chaucer , Richard le, 88 - - Mary, wife of, 88 Chaucer, "Chaucier," Thomas, the King's Butler, 8, 19, 92,; com- plains to Parliament of the

• Memorials1371

committed to prison etc. And the aforesaid Alan was mainprised by William atte Castelle, armourer, Robert Horkesle, tailour , Henry Chaucer, vyntner , and Robert Grygge, saddler, such persons to have them here on the said day, at their peril.

• Index

sealing and writing the, temp . Edward III., 197 Chase , rights of, 62 Chaucer , Geoffrey, lease to, of Aldgate, 377 Chaucer , Henry, 353 Chaucer , John, 214 Chauntecler , Roger, Sheriff, 162, 164, 166 Cheap , 20,

• DeedsC.5701 - C.5800

] C. 5718. Copy of grant by Thomas de Stonore, esquire, to Robert [Haloum ] , bishop of Salisbury, Thomas Chaucer, John Golafre, Hamon Bealknapp, and John Warefelde of the reversion of the manor of Beerton by Aillesbury after the

• Chronicles of the Mayors and Sheriffs1269-70

I. e . Savoy. Portsmouth. Botolph's Town, Botulstone, or Boston, in Lincolnshire. Coarse red or grey cloth, known in France as bureau . Hence the ' borel man' of Chaucer; a person of the humbler classes, who wore this cloth.

• IntroductionThe staff of the church

euery sonday ij d, viij s viij d." In later times, however, the organ was in use daily, p. 386. Chaucer students will remember the allusion to the 'merry organ' in church. The Churchwardens. -The wardens were chosen by the

• Wills43 Edward III (1369-70)

, A.D. 1368. Roll 97 (3). Monday next after the Feast of Purification of V. Mary [2 Feb. ] . Chaucer (Nicholas), pepperer.-To be buried in the church of S. Antonin near the font. Bequests to the said church and

• WillsMary I (1553-58)

the testator's will was to take effect immediately after its execution, and not from the time of his death. 3 Chaucer uses the term "herse" to denote the decorated bier or funeral pageant, as here. Originally it signified a pyramidal

• St. Mary le Bow 104/17-19

le Bow beneath ( sub ) the chancel. This was evidently the pr operty in Cordewanerestrete which John de Flaundene, chaucer , and his wife Margery held from the hospital in 1307. 8 The references to the shop 'beneath' the

• Close Rolls, Edward INovember 1275

length the bishop and the prior, for himself and his convent, and Adam de Toftys, William de Rollesby, Henry le Chaucer, and Roger de Tudenham, citizens of Norwich, for the said community, have jointly agreed to the king as arbitrator

• Close Rolls, June 1266

apud Northamt' v. die Junii anno l mo . Consimilem litteram habet Johannes de Coventr'. Consimilem litteram habet Robertus le Chaucer. Consimilem litteram habet Johannes Croun. Consimilem litteram habet Robertus Heyrun. Consimilem litteram habet ( unfinished ). Rex Willelmo filio

• IndexC

[co. Kent ] , 95. Chattendon , Chotindon [in Frindsbury, co. Kent ] , 152. Chaubernon , Henry de, 558. Chaucer , Robert le, citizen of London, 245. Chaumbreleng. See Camerarius. Chaumbre. See Camera. Chaumpayn , Chaumpayne, Geoffrey de, 542.

• Close Rolls, Edward IIJuly 1325

cos. Surrey and Somerset. William de Pertenhale of London, 'blader,' acknowledges that he owes to Luke de Grendon of London, 'chaucer,' 40 l .; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in the city of