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[Sidenote: He differeth from Master Speight on Chaucer’s family.] Under the tytle of chaucers countaye,[4] yo{u} seme to make yt probable that Richarde Chaucer vinetener of Lond...
6. Part 6[Sidenote: Hugh of Lincoln.] Fo: 96. pa: 2. vppon these woordes, “O hughe of Lincolne sleyne also, &c.” You saye, that in the 29. H. 3. eightene Jewes were broughte fro{m} Linco...
5. Part 5[Sidenote: Wiuer or Wyvern, a serpent like unto a dragon.] Wiuer yo{u} expounde not. Wherefore I will tell you, a wyuer is a kynde of serpent of good Bulke, not vnlyke vnto a dr...
4. Part 4[Sidenote: He correcteth Master Speight his dates and history of printing.] IN THE LATTER END of the title of Chawcers deathe yo{u} saye, that printinge was brought oute of Germ...
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2. Part 2The old story of Chaucer’s having been fined for beating a Franciscan friar in Fleet Street is doubted by Thynne, though hardly, I think, on sufficient grounds. Tradition (when...
7. Part 7And so ys yt in the edit{i}one of Chaucer’s Works, printed in anno Domini 1542, accordinge to the frenche moralizatione of Molinet, fo. 149. where he is called “Roye des Ribauld...