• Introduction

the poet Chaucer in 1374. 112 A translation of this document was printed in Riley's 'Memorials' in 1868, and it has recently been set out in its Latin form in 'Life Records of Chaucer,' edited for the Chaucer Society by

• Rymer's Foedera with SyllabusJanuary-June 1398

Protection for Geoffrey Chaucer, the K.'s esquire, going to various parts of the kingdom on the K.'s business, as he fears molestation from his enemies. Westm . O. viii. 39. H. iii. p. iv. 144. Pro Galfrido Chaucer, de Protectione

• Close Rolls, Henry IVOctober 1404

of Winchester, which is void, although the king lately committed the same to him and to John Pelham knight, Thomas Chaucer and John Lidyngton clerk so long as the temporalities should remain in the king's hand, so that they should

• Close Rolls, Henry IVOctober 1405

after St. Faith 7 Henry IV. Memorandum of acknowledgment, 11 November. John Chitterne clerk to Philip la Vache knight, Thomas Chaucer, Edmund Hampden, Richard Wyot and John Broughton, their heirs and assigns. Charter of demise of his estate in the

• Close Rolls, Henry VINovember 1425

Order to take of Margery who was wife of William Molyns knight on oath etc., and in presence of Thomas Chaucer esquire, farmer of her husband's lands taken into the king's hand by his death and by reason of the

• Close Rolls, Henry VIFebruary 1430

of Thomas de Monte Acuto earl of Salisbury count of Perche and lord Monthermer and Alice Phelip daughter of Thomas Chaucer esquire, without obtaining licence of the king, that the same is held in chief by knight service, and that

• IndexE

, Dengayngne, John, 212. England , cardinal of. See Beaufort, H. -, chief butler of, 215. See also Boteler, R.; Chaucer, T. -, -, bill of, warrant for letters close, 150. -, constable of. See Bohun, H. de. -, guardian

• Close Rolls, Henry VSeptember 1416

pain of 100 l ., in favour of Roger Fedirstone of Wodstoke co. Oxford, one of the servants of Thomas Chaucer. 5 By the guardian. To the same. Like order, mutatis mutandis , upon information of William Tempest of the

• Close Rolls, Henry VJune 1417

5 Henry V. Memorandum of acknowledgment, 14 November. Membrane 13 d . Roger Forde to Thomas de Camoys knight, Thomas Chaucer esquire, Henry Merston, Nicholas Wymbysshe, William Warde, John Marnham clerks, Reynold Courteys, Henry Kesewyke esquires and Robert Barbot and

• Close Rolls, Edward IV1468-1472

levied before Richard Norton and his fellow justices, and granted at Easter, 6 Henry V, it was agreed between Thomas Chaucer and Maud his wife, plaintiffs, and John and Margaret Arundell, parents of the grantor, deforciants, concerning a moiety of

• Rymer's Foedera with SyllabusJune 1414

eadem Civitate. Et Mandatum est Militibus, & c. June 4. Power for Henry lord de le Scrop, Hugh Mortimer, Thomas Chaucer, Philip Morgan, and John Honyngham to treat with Ralph Major and the other ambassadors of the duke of Burgundy

• Sheriffs' Court Roll, 1320Membrane 1

distrained v. John of Wengrave in a plea of account. William de Taunton, attached by his body v. Richard le Chaucer in a plea of account. Gilbert le Rede, better distrained v. John Sprai in a plea of debt; and

• Sheriffs' Court Roll, 1320Membrane 5

better distrained v. John Wengrave in a plea of account. William of Tauntone, attached by his body v. Richard le Chaucer in a plea of account. Gilbert le Rede, better distrained v. John Sprai in a plea of debt. Juliana

• Sheriffs' Court Roll, 1320Membrane 19

distrained v. John of Wengrave in a plea of account. William of Tauntone, attached by his body v. Richard le Chaucer in a plea of debt. Nicholas Crane, Thomas of Beri, butcher, Robert le Treyere, better distrained v. John Priour

• Sheriffs' Court Roll, 1320Membrane 22

of Wengrave in a plea of account. [p. 85 ] William of Taunton, attached by his body v. Richard le Chaucer in a plea of account. Nicholas Krane, Thomas of Beri, butcher, Robert le Treiere, better distrained v. John Priour

• Folios xli - lMay 1405 - l

Br'e de Cora notore reci piend'. Writ to the Mayor and Sheriffs to admit Richard Alfeld as deputy-coroner to Thomas Chaucer, the King's Butler, and ex of ficio Coroner of the City. Witness the King at Westminster, 16 Feb., 7

• Fines of mixed countiesHenry IV and V

Joan, formerly wife of William Beauchamp, of Bergevenny, John Pelham, Chivaler, Robert Corbet, Chivaler, John Greyndon, Chivaler, Walter Lucy, Thomas Chaucer, William Walwyn, Thomas Holgote, and Richard Wygmore, complainants, and Edmund, Earl of March, deforciants of the castles and lordships

• Index of subjectsEdward III

the Prior of St. John of Jerusalem, as to access to the Thames through the Temple 376 Lease to Geoffrey Chaucer of the dwelling-house at Algate 377 Account of a Guardian, as to moneys expended upon his Ward 378 Lease

• Memorials1304

not stand on exactly the same site as the present building. Lucca. Or Alisoun. See the Miller's Tate , in Chaucer. The then Castellain, or Chief Banneret, of London. Meaning, of Lichfield and Coventry. See pages 37, 50, ante .

• Memorials1339

however carefully. This passage, including the mention of " gonnes ," pellets, and powder, is illustrated by the lines of Chaucer, in the " House of Fame ," Book III.,-Swift as a pellet out of a gonne, When fire is