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A32749	The works of our ancient, learned, & excellent English poet, Jeffrey Chaucer as they have lately been compar'd with the best manuscripts, and several things added, never before in print : to which is adjoyn'd The story of the siege of Thebes, by John Lidgate ... : together with The life of Chaucer, shewing his countrey, parentage, education, marriage, children, revenues, service, reward, friends, books, death : also a table, wherein the old and obscure words in Chaucer are explained, and such words ... that either are, by nature or derivation, Arabick, Greek, Latine, Italian, French, Dutch, or Saxon, mark'd with particular notes for the better understanding of their original.; Works. 1687	Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.; Speght, Thomas, fl. 1600.; Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? Siege of Thebes.	1687 (1687)	Wing C3736; ESTC R3920	1,295,535	731

Combibit arcanos vatum omnis turba furores And that we may conclude his Praises with the Testimony of the worthiest Gentleman that the Court hath afforded in many Years Sir Philip Sidney in his Apology for Poetry saith thus of him Chaucer undoubtedly did excellently in his Troilus and Creiseid of whom truly I know not whether to marvel more either that he in that misty time could see so clearly or that we in this clear Age walk so stumblingly after him Seeing therefore that both old and new Writers have carried this reverend Conceit of our Poet and openly declared the same by Writing let us conclude with Horace in the eighth Ode of his fourth Book Dignum laude virum musa vetat mori ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER HAving for some Years last past been greatly sollicited by many Learned and Worthy Gentlemen to Re-print the Works of this Ancient Poet I have now not only to answer their Desire but I hope to their full Satisfaction perform'd the Obligation long since laid upon me and sent Chaucer abroad into the World again in his old dress and under the Protection of his own Merits without any new Preface or Letters Commendatory it being the Opinion of those Learned Persons that his own Works are his best Encomium Whereas in the Life of Chaucer mention is made of a Tale call'd the Pilgrims Tale which is there said to have been seen in the Library of Mr. Stow and promis'd to be printed so soon as opportunity should offer I have for the procuring of it used all Diligence imaginable not only in searching the publick Libraries of both Universities but also all private Libraries that I could have Access unto but having no Success therein I beg you will please to accept my earnest Endeavour to have serv'd you and take what is here printed it being all that at present can be found that was Chaucer's J. H. THE Works of Ieffrey Chaucer With Additions Also the Siege and Destruction of the worthy City of Thebes Compiled by John Lidgate Monk of BVRY Virtue flourisheth in Chaucer still Though Death of him hath wrought his will To the KING's HIGHNESS My most Gracious Soveraign Lord HENRY the Eighth By the Grace of God King of England and of France Defensor of the Faith and Lord of Ireland c. AMongs all other excellencies most Gracious Soveraigne Lord wherewith Almighty God hath endowed mankind above the residue of earthly creatures as an outward declaration of reason or reasonableness wherein consisteth the similitude of Man unto Angels and the difference between the same and brute beasts I verayly suppose that Speech or Language is not to be reputed amongs the smallest or inferiours for thereby is expressed the conceit of one to another in open and plaine Sentence which in the residue of lively creatures lacketh and is not shewed amongs them but by certain covert and derke signes and that in few things having course and operation onely of nature This Speech or Language after the confusion of Tongues sent by Gods punishment for pride and arrogancy of people hath been by a certaine instinct and disposition natural devised and invented in sundry parts of the world as fellowships or companyings of folks one with another chaunced much to the outward expressing of the thing in word or sound according to that whereof it had meaning or signification But in processe of time by diligence or pollicy of people after divers formes figures and impressions in mettall barks of trees and other matter used for memory and knowledge of things then present or passed sundry letters or carectes were first amongs the Phenices devised and found with such knittings and joynings of one to another by a marvellous subtilty and craft as counterveiled was and is equivalent to the same Languages So as the conceit of mans mind which at the beginning was used to be declared by mouth only came to such point that it was as sensibly and vively expressed in writing Hereupon ensued a great occasion courage unto them that should write to compone and adorne the rudeness and barbariety of speech and to forme it to an eloquent and ordinate perfection whereunto many and many great Poets and Orators have highly employed their studies and courages leaving thereby notable Renoume of themselves and example perpetual to their posterity Amongs other the Greeks in all kinds of sciences seemed so to prevail and so to ornate their Tongue as yet by other of right noble Languages cannot be perfitely imitated or followed The Latines by example of the Greeks have gotten or wonne to them no small glory in the forming order and uttering of that Tongue Out of the which two if it be well searched that is to say Greeke and Latin though by corruption of speech it should seeme much otherwise have been derived the residue of the Languages that be written with the letters of carectes of either of them both But of all Speeches those which most approch to the Latin be the Italian and Spanish Tongues of whom the one by corruption of the Gothes and Longobardes had her beginning as Latin spoken by strangers of a barbare understanding the other being also Latin was by Vandales Gothes Moores Sarracenes and other so many times blemished as marveile it is to see now unto what perfection these two formed out of the Latin and Barbares speeches be reduced Next unto them in similitude to the Latin is the French tongue which by diligence of people of the same is in few years passed so amended as well in Pronunciation as in Writing that an Englishman by a small time exercised in that Tongue hath not lacked ground to make a Grammere or rule ordinary thereof Though of trouth which some shall scarcely believe the Germans have so formed the order of their Language that in the same is both as much plenty and as nere concordaunce to the phrase of the Latin as the French Tongue hath And veraily like as all these and the rest have been thus vigilant and studious to meliorate or amend their Languages so hath there not lacked amongs us Englishmen which have right well and notably endeavored and emploied themselves to the beautifying and bettering of the English Tongue Amongs whom most excellent Prince my most redoubted and gracious soveraign lord I your most humble Vassale Subject Servaunt William Thynn chief Clerke of your Kitchin mooved by a certain inclination and zeal which I have to hear of any thing sounding to the laud and honour of this your noble Realm have taken great delectation as the times and leisers might suffer to rede and heare the books of that noble famous Clerke Geffrey Chaucer in whose workes is so manifest comprobation of his excellent learning in all kindes of doctrines and sciences such fruitfulness in words well according to the matter and purpose to sweet pleasaunt sentences such perfection in metre the composition so adapted such freshness of invention compendiousnesse in

diligence in doing a message mendicants l. Beggars mees b. Meddows mew secret mest b. most mete deal yield methe a kind of sweet drink metten dream melite power megre f. b. lean * Minoresse the right reading is moueresse as we have now printed it that is a stirrer of debate for so it is in the French Verses in the oldest written Copies Sembla byen estre moueresse ministralcie any instrument of Musick or Musick it self miscreants f. Infidels misqueame b. displease missat b. became not mistaken misused misfill miscarried mirror f. a glass mistere f. occupation manner fashion service strange thing also need mineth l. threatneth mistihede darkness mystery mitches f. manchets misericorde l. compassion minge b. mingle mine b. to entend also to dig misbode wrong minotaure g. a monster half a bull and half a man * Moses and King Salomon Out of Josephus and Petrus Comestor magister historiarum qui claruit Anno 1260. moyson f. ripeness monest l. admonish mouch b. to take up all mourdant i. the tongue of a buckle mokell mikell b. much mortresse a meat made of boiled hens crummed bread yolks of eggs and saffron all boiled together mokell d. stature making bigness modefie l. moderate mountaunce quantity mollock b. earth dung mowen posse be able mormall a canker moniours f. coiners moeble f. housholdstuff mow mon b. might mosell mouth snout mowlen b. wax mould moten d. must do moile a dish made of marrow and grated bread morter f. a lampe mote d. must go molles kistrels momblishnes d. talk mue moved muet f. silent muckre b. hoard up musard f. lingerer mynting labouring N. Nadir a. the point opposite to Zenith or the point under the Horizon right under our feet nakoners i. crotalum cimbals nas was not nart art not nad had not nale b. the ale-house narcotise d. stupefactive making senseless nat wilne not desire nam am not name d. took nere were not nede nedes b. business neighen neigh b. touch to draw near nest b. next neuen neuin b. name named nerfe i. sinew gristle nedely of necessity nesh b. tender nere untill were it not nempt b. named name tell nede needed nerthes herdmen nedes cost of necessity neders adders nice nise b. foolish nicete folly curiosity niterall saltpeter nigh b. almost nighen draw near nist knew not nil will not nigon nigeon f. dolt niggard nigges b. niggards nigh near to draw near nightspell b. a prayer against the night mare nightertale by night nimphes g. maidens of the sea nowell signifieth Deus nobiscum and is taken for Christmas 20. or 30. days next before nortelri nurture nore f. comfort nourishing note a Saint called Neotes nones b. condition purpose nori i. nurse nost knowest nome taken nummed nowth now note business O. Obay abide obseruaunce l. honour obstacles l. let ts occision l. murther occisier l. murderer octogami g. eight times married odible l. hateful offitorie l. a song or lesson in the time of offring oftsithes b. sundry times of plat then edge of ease then grief offrend f. d. offring onde halitus b. breath also fury on hie apace oned united onis once on knew d. one knee on presse adowne openheed bare-headed orde l. point ordainor d. governour oratorie l. a Temple a Chappel orisons f. d. Prayers * Ordall Ordalia is a tryal of chastity and other things by going over hot burning cultures of iron bare-footed as did Emma and Gunegond the Wife of Henry the fifteenth Emperour of Romans as writeth Cra●tius in his Chronicles of Almaine This Ordall was used among the Saxons and since the Conquest among the Normans but in the time of King John it was taken away by the Court of Rome And afterward in England by the authority of Henry the third ordred b. having taken orders of priesthood Orders fower The four orders of Friars were these 1 Friars Minors or gray friers Franciscans 2 Friars preachers or blackfriars Dominicanes 3 Friars Carmelites or white friars 4 Friars Augustines * Orfrayes Aurifrisium frisled cloth of gold made and used in England both before and since the Conquest worn both by the Clergy and the Kings themselves as may appear out of Matthew Paris where he speaketh of the Ornaments sent by the Abbots of England to the Pope And also by a Record in the Tower where the King commandeth the Templers to deliver such Jewels garments and ornaments as they had of the Kings in keeping Among the which he nameth Dalmaticum velatum de Orefreis that is a Damask garment garded with Orfrayes orisont g. the part of the firmament to us seen orientall bright beautiful orientall i. bright orpiment the herb Orpin orloge f. g. a diall ouch b. a boss or button of gold also a wedge of gold ouerfret spred ouerthrowing hast outraie depart run outrance destruction out take except owhere any where ownding f. garding like waves owndy f. waving owles b. hooks pinsars P. * Palmers A Pilgrim and a Palmer did differ thus The Pilgrim had some dwelling place the Palmer had none the Pilgrim travelled to some certain place the Palmer to all and not to any one the Pilgrim might go at his own charge the Palmer must profess wilful poverty the Pilgrim might give over his profession the Palmer must be constant until he had obtained the Palm that is victory over his ghostly enemies and life by death * Pasiphae wife of Minos king of Creet who having kept company with a bull but rather as Festus saith with a man called Taurus brought forth Minotaurus who was half a man and half a bull palladium g. the image of Pallas in Troy pale f. a spangle also a robe of state palastere g. a combate paie b. robe paine mane f. white bread paling cutting in pains pace b. appease Palathi Palathia in Anatolia papelard f. hypocrite pankers f. toyls to take deer parage f. parentage patere b. prate partner by parts pan b. brain panter f. a pitfall pad b. a bundel parfay f. verily paynem b. heathenish paramors f. lovers pleasures pardieux f. verily paplardi f. hypocrisie paraments Robes of state or the place where they are kept par for pauade pugio a dagger or baslard penon f. a long streamer perse f. sky colour pennes fele many pence pensell d. a peece perionet a young pear tree perry f. precious stones bravery with precious stones pekois a pickaxe perturben f. disturb perriwrigh embroidered with pearl permagall equal peregrine f. strange peri d. a pear tree perpendicular l. down right * Peruise f. A bar and here it is understood of the conference called the Peruis amongst the young Counsellors Pleaders Attorneys or Students of the Law such as at this day might resemble the course in the houses of Court or Chancery called mootes and bolts wherein the form of pleading and arguing a case is exercised For so doth Fortescue in his 51. chapter of his Book commending those laws prove when he saith that after the

yong children to martire Of cruelty he left the quarele Pity he wrought and pity was his hele For thilke mans pity which he dede God was pitous and made him hole at all Siluester came and in the same stede Yaue him baptisme first in speciall Which did away the sinne originall And all his lepre it hath so purified That his pity for euer is magnified Pity was cause why this Emperour Was hole in body and in soule both And Rome also was set in thilke honour Of Christs faith so that they leue or loth Which hadden be with Christ tofore wroth Receiued were vnto Christs lore Thus shall pity be praised euermore My worthy liege lord Henry by name Which England hast to gouerne and right Men ought well thy pity to proclaime Which openliche in all the worlds sight Is shewed with the helpe of God almight To yeue vs peace which long hath be debated Whereof thy prise shall neuer be abated My lord in whome hath euer yet be found Pity without spot of violence Keepe thilke peace alway within bound Which God hath planted in thy conscience So shall the cronique of thy patience Among the saints be taken into memory To the legend of perdurable glory And to thine earthly prise so as I can Which euery man is hold to commend I Gower which am all thy liege man This letter vnto thine excellence I send As I which euer vnto my liues end Woll pray for the state of thy persone In worship of thy scepter and thy throne Not onely to my king of peace I write But to these other princes Christen all That ech of hem his owne hert endite And sease the warre or more mischeefe fall Set eke the rightfull Pope vpon his stall Keepe charity and draw pity to hand Maintaine law and so the peace shall stand Explicit carmen de pacis commendatione quod ad laudem memoriam seremssimi principis domini regis Henrici Quarti suus humilis orator Johannes Gower composuit Electus Christi pie rex Henrici fuisti Qui bene venisti cum propria regna petisti Tu mala vicistique bonis bona restituisti Et populo tristi nova gaudia contribuisti Est mihi spes lata quod adhuc per te renovata Succedent fata veteri probitare beata Est tibi nam grata gratia sponte data Henrici quarti primus regni fuit annus Quo mihi defecit visus ad acta mea Omnia tempus habent finem natura ministrat Quem virtute sua frangere nemo potest Ultra posse nihil quamvis mihi velle remansit Amplius ut scribam non mihi posse manet Dum potui scripsi sed nunc quia curva senectus Turbavit sensus scripta relinquo scholis Scribat qui veniet post me discretior alter Ammodo namque manus mea penna silent Hoc tamen in fine verborum queso meorum Prospera quod statuat regna futura Deus Explicit ¶ A Saying of Dan Iohn THere be foure thinges that maketh man foole Honour first putteth him in outrage And alder next solitary and soole The second is unweldy crooked age Women also bring men in dotage And mighty wine in many diuers wise Distempren folke which been holden wise ¶ Yet of the same THere ben four things causing great foly Honour first and vnwildy age Women and wine I dare eke specifie Make wise men fallen in dotage Wherfore by counsail of Philosophers sage In great honour learne this of me With thine estate have humilite Balade de bon consail IF it befall that God thee list visite With any tourment or adversite Thanke firste the lord and thy selfe to quite Vpon suffraunce and humilite Found thou thy quarell what ever that it be Make thy defence thou shalt have no losse The remembrance of Christ and of his crosse Explicit Of the Cuckow and the Nightingale Chaucer dreameth that he heareth the Cuckow and the Nightingale contend for excellency in singing * THE God of love and benedicite How mighty howe great a lord is he For he can make of low herts hy And of high low and like for to dy And hard herts he can maken free He can make within a little stound Of sicke folke hole fresh and sound And of hole he can make seeke He can bind and vnbinden eke That he woll have bounden or vnbound To tell his might my wit may not suffice For he can make of wise folke full nice For he may do all that he woll device And lithy folke to destroyen vice And proud herts he can make agrise Shortly all that ever he woll he may Against him dare no wight say nay For he can glad and greve whom him liketh And who that he woll he lougheth or siketh And most his might he shedeth ever in May. For every true gentle heart free That with him is or thinketh for to be Againe May now shall have some stering Or to joy or els to some mourning In no season so much as thinketh me For when they may here the birds sing And see the floures and the leaves spring That bringeth into her remembraunce A manner ease medled with grevaunce And lustie thoughts full of great longing And of that longing commeth hevinesse And thereof groweth of great sicknesse And for lacke of that that they desire And thus in May ben herts set on fire So that they brennen forth in great distresse I speake this of feeling truly If I be old and vnlusty Yet I have felt of the sicknesse through May Both hote and cold and axes every day How sore ywis there wote no wight but I. I am so shaken with the fevers white Of all this May sleepe I but a lite And also it is not like to me That any heart should sleepy be In whom that love his firy dart woll smite But as I lay this other night waking I thought how lovers had a tokening And among hem it was a commune tale That it were good to here the Nightingale Rather than the leud Cuckow sing And then I thought anon as it was day I would go some where to assay If that I might a Nightingale here For yet had I none heard of all that yere And it was tho the third night of May. And anone as I the day aspide No lenger would I in my bed abide But vnto a wood that was fast by I went forth alone boldely And held the way downe by a brooke side Till I came to a laund of white and green So faire one had I never in been The ground was green ypoudred with daisie The floures and the greues like hy All greene and white was nothing els seene There sate I downe among y● faire flours And saw the birds trip out of her bours There as they rested hem all the night They were so joyfull of the dayes light They began of May for to done hours They coud that seruice all by rote There was

a Writer in Astronomy as of the Conjunction of the Planets c. Alanus among other things wrote a Book De Planctu Naturae B. Bocatius born at Florence in Italy set out many things in his own Tongue claruit 1375. Bernardus de Gordonio a Frenchman born Reader of Physick at Mount Pelier Bernardus Abbas Clarevallensis a Burgonian and a singular Divine set forth many things 1140. Basilius Magnus Bishop of Caesarea 367. C. Cato a learned man among the Romans before the Incarnation 182. Corinna a Theban Woman and a Lyrike Poet she wrote 50 Books and Epigrams as Suidas and Pausanias report Claudianus born in Alexandria in Egypt among many things wrote a Book of the stealing away of Proserpina Crisippus did write a Book against the pleasure of the Body Constantine the Monk did translate and write many things in Physick and among other Lib. de coitu quibus modis augeatur diminuatur D. Dante 's Aligeras an Italian and born in Florence lived 1341. Dares Phrigius did write the Trojan War in Greek where he himself was a Souldier Ditis Historicus did write a Book of the Trojan War found in a certain Sepulchre Damascenus Presbiter did write many things in the Greek Tongue Dioscorides a worshipful Knight of Egypt wrote in Greek of the natures of divers Herbs He lived under Cleopatra and Antonius E. Aesculapius did write a Book of the original cause and descriptions of Diseases F. Franciscus Petrarcha an Italian born did write when Chaucer was a young man floruit 1374. G. Gatisden and Gilbertin Englishmen born and writers in Physick Guido de Columna a Sicilian did write of the Trojan War 1287. Galfride Vinesause was a Norman by his Parents but born in England he did write in his Book entituled de artificio loquendi by way of Example of Mourning under the Rhetorical figure of Apostrophe a complaint for the Death of Richard the First who was slain with an Arrow at the Siege of the Castle of Chalne in Normandy and lived in the time of King John An. Dom. 1210 Galenus a most singular Physician did write a multitude of Books 160. Gregorius Magnus did write much in Divinity claruit An. 369. Galfridus Monumethensis an Englishman born translated into our Tongue the History of England floruit 1152. H. Homerus the chiefest of all Poets wrote in the Greek Tongue two works the one called his Ilias and the other his Odyssea Helowis Maximinian Livian Aurora Zansis and divers others alledged by Chaucer have none or few of their works extant Haly wrote a Book of the Compositions of Medicines Hieronimus Stridonensis did write among other things a defence of Virginity in two Books against Jovinian Hippocrates Cous a most ancient Physician and Prince of all others lived in the days of Artaxerxes Hermes an Egyptian Disciple to Plato did write of many strange things I. Josephus wrote in Greek the Battel and Destruction of the Jews He was after the Incarnation seventy six years Johannes Damascenus a Writer in Physick 1158. Innocentius Papa born in Company wrote a Book of the happy state of Mankind Juvenalis a Poet which wrote Satyrs Justinian an Emperour of Rome who caused to be written the Books of the Laws called the Digests Institutions and the Code containing the Decrees of the Emperours He was after the Incarnation five hundred and seventy years L. Lollius an Italian Historiographer born in the City of Vrbine Lucanus a famous Poet that wrote the Battel between Caesar and Pompey M. Macrobius Aurellius wrote a Commentary on Scipio's Dream Marcus Aurelius Cassiodorus a Monk among many things wrote of the state of the Soul Marcianus Capella did write of the Liberal Sciences and also of the marriage of Philologi and Mercury O. Ovidius a famous Latin Poet and Orator advanced to be Senator of Rome He lived when Christ was conversant on Earth P. Petrus Alfonsus a Jew turned to the Faith before called Moses was baptised by King Alphonsus and bare his Name he did write many Books 1100. Pamphilus Presbiter Kinsman to Eusebius after much pains in writing suffered Martyrdom in Caesaria under the Persecution of Maximinus Papinius Statius a Neapolitan wrote of the Destruction of Thebes He lived under Domitian Ptolemeus lived in the Time of Anthony the Emperour he wrote divers works and restored out of Darkness the Mathematical Sciences Pithagoras an excellent Philosopher of Samos at whose Wisdom Plato did wonder He was before the Incarnation 522 years Petrus Cassiodorus an Italian a Noble man and learned did write to the Church of England and perswaded them to cast off their Obedience to the Roman Bishops and to beware of their Tyranny 1302. R. Rasis an Arabian Physician Rufus a Physician of Ephesus in the time of Trajan the Emperour S. Statius a noble Poet which wrote twelve Books of the Theban War Senior Zadith did write a Book of Alchimy Gesner Seneca a Spaniard born in Corduba a singular Philosopher did write many things he lived in the time of Nero by whom he was put to Death Serapion an Arabian did write of the Composition of Medicines Suetonius wrote the Lives of the Roman Emperours Strode a man of great Learning Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford 1380. T. Tertullian did write a Book of the attire of Women Titus Livius the most excellent Writer of the Romans History Tho. Bradwarden was Bishop of Canterbury who did write a Book De causa Dei contra Pelagianos and dedicated it to the Society of Merton Colledge in Oxford He did write many other Books one of the Trinity one of Predestination one of all Sciences one of the Principles of Geometry also a book of the Reward of them which shall be saved and another called the Sum of Divinity He flourished in the year of Grace 1270. Trotula set forth a book of the cure of Diseases in and after Childbirth Theophrastus Eresius Disciple to Aristotle writing a great number of Books hath one De frugalitate Tullius a Senator of Rome Father of Eloquence and pure Fountain of the Latin Tongue He flourished about forty years before Christs Incarnation V. Valerius Maximus wrote to Tiberius Caesar a Book of the memorable deeds and sayings of worthy Men. Virgilius the most famous Poet of Mantua whose Life Petrus Crinitus hath set down at large in Lib. 3. de Poetis Latinis Vitellio did write ten books of Perspectives W. William S. Aymour a Frenchman did write a Commentary on the Apocalipse much inveighing against the Pope and was therefore banished and his Books burned ADVERTISEMENT WHilst this Work was just finishing we hapned to meet with a Manuscript wherein we found the Conclusion of the Cook 's Tale and also of the Squires Tale which in the Printed Books are said to be lost or never finish'd by the Author but coming so late to our hands they could not be inserted in their proper places therefore the Reader is desir'd to add them as here directed Immediately after what

you find of the Cooks Tale add this What thorow himself his felaw y● fought Vnto a mischief both they were brought The tone ydamned to prison perpetually The tother to deth for he couth not of clergy And therefore yong men learne while ye may That with many divers thoughts beth pricked all the day Remembre you what mischief cometh of misgovernaunce Thus mowe ye learn worschip and come to substaunce Think how grace and governaunce hath brought aboune Many a poore man'ys Son chefe state of the Town Euer rule thee after the best man of name And God may grace thee to come to y● same Immediately after these words at the end of the Squires Tale Apollo whirleth up his chare so hie Vntill the God Mercurius house he flie Let this be added But I here now maken a knotte To the time it come next to my lotte For here ben felawes behind an hepe truly That wolden talk full besily And have here sport as well as I And the day passeth certainly So on this mattere I may no lenger dwell But stint my clack and let the other tell Therefore oft taketh now good hede Who shall next tell and late him spede FINIS 1 This Leland had Commission from King Hen. Eighth to search all Libraries in England for matters of Antiquity He died in the days of Edw. Sixth 2 In the 1. Book and 5th Sect. 3 About the 2d or 3d Year of Edw. Third 1 Vintner quasi Wineturner that is a Merchant of the Vi●●ry which sold by whole sale 1 This Q. Isabel being sent into France with her young Son Edw. by the K. of England her Husband to conferr about matters with her Brother the French King would by no means return having conceived a great Hatred against the Spensers and also against the King for suffering himself to be misled by their naughty Counsel but by all means stirred the People to Rebellion and in the end came over her self with almost three thousand Strangers besides Englishmen 2 Henault a Province lying between France and Flanders 1 This Coniecture is of small force for the Merchants of the Staple had not any Arms granted to them as I have been informed before the time of Henry the Sixth or much thereabout Canterbury Colledge in Oxford founded by Simon Islip Archbishop of Canterbury was suppressed in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. and joyned unto Christs-Church 2 Nicholas de Lynna studiorum praecipuas partes in Mathesi collocavit quae quatuor disciplinarum orbem complectitur videlicet Arithmeticam Geometriam Musicam Astrologiam Bale 3 John Gower a Knight as Bale writeth studied not only the common Laws of the Land but all other kind of good Literature He lieth buried in St. Mary Overies in Southwark in a stately Tomb erected in the Wall with his Image lying over him in a Habit of greenish Damask down to his Feet a Collar of Esses Gold about his Neck and on his Head a Chaplet of Roses the Ornaments of Knighthood Under his Head he hath the likeness of three Books which he compiled the first Speculum Meditantis in French the second Vox Clamantis in Latin the third Confessio Amantis in English 4 John Plantagenet sirnamed Gaunt of Gaunt in Flanders where he was born was the fourth Son of King Edward the Third He was Duke of Lancaster Earl of Lincoln Darby and Leicester King of Castile and Lyons and Steward of England He was also Earl of Richmond and Duke of Aquitain He had three Wives Blanch Constance and Katharine He lieth buried in the Quire of Pauls 1 Thomas Chaucer was born about the 38 or 39th Year of Edw. 3. 2 Written Ann. Domini 1391. Rich. secund 14. 1 This John Burghershe was of the same Line of Barrholomew Burghershe one of the first Knights of the Garter at the Institution thereof by Edward 3. and of Henry Burghershe Bishop of Lincoln and Chancellor and Treasurer of England 2 Ewelme olim Chauceri Delapolorum nunc Regiae aedes Dum enim Johannes Lincolniae Comes Gulielmo Delapolo è filio Johanne nepos res novas contra Henricum septimum moliretur proscriptus omnibus honoribus his possessionibus excidit quae in patrimonium Regium transcriptae fuerunt G. C. 3 Dunnington Castle standeth in a Park in Barkshire not far from Newberry where to this day standeth an old Oak called Chaucer's Oak 4 Wallingford in Barkshire Castrum admirandae amplitudinis magnificentiae duplici murorum ambitu duplici item vallo circundatum in medio moli in magnam altitudinem aeditae arx imponitur in cujus acclivi per gradus ascensu fons est immensae profunditatis Incolae constructum à Danis credunt alii à Romanis G. Camben 5 Knaresborow in Yorkshire Castrum rupi asperrimae impositum quod Serlonem de Burgo patruum Eustacii Vescii condidisse ferunt nunc patrimonii Lancastrensis censetur G. Camden 6 This Jane of Navarr Widow to John of Mounford Duke of Britain was married to Henry the Fourth about the fourth Year of his Reign 7 The Pooles Advancement grew first by Merchandise and Sir Richard Poole Kt. was Father to William de la Pool Merchant of Hull who for that he frankly and freely did lend to King Ed. 3. a great Sum of Mony at Mortaign in France when he was greatly distressed was honoured with the Girdle Military made Banneret and endued with 1000 Marks by the Year and his Successors after were advanced to be Dukes of Suffolk as in Master Stow's Annals appeareth William de la Pole was first secretly married to the Countess of Henault by whom he had a Daughter and after being divorced from her was publickly married to Chaucer's Daughter Countess of Salisbury who proved this Daughter being married to one Barentine a Bastard The which Barentine afterward for a Rior made against the Countess was condemned and lost an hundred Pounds by the Year J. Stow. In the 28. of K. Hen. 6. 1450. this William de la Pole was banished the Realm for five Years to pacifie the hard opinion which the Commons had conceived against him In his Journey to his Banishment he was taken and beheaded and his Body cast up at Dover Sands and buried in the Charter-house at Hull J. St. This Sir Rich. Dangle a Knt. of Poictu came over with the Duke of Lancaster who for his Valiancy and tryed Truth to the King of England was made Knight of the Garter 1 Some say he did but translate it and that it was made by Sir Otes de Grantsome Knight in French of my Lady of York Daughter to the King of Spain representing Venus and my Lord of Huntingdon sometime Duke of Excester This Lady was younger Sister to Gaunt's second Wife This Lord of Huntingdon was called John Holland half Brother to Richard the Second He married Elizabeth the Daughter of John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster Out of the Records in the Tower a Thomas Occleve vel Ockelese vir tam bonis literis quam generis prosapia clarus exquisua quadam Anglici sermonis eloquentia post Chaucerum cujus suerat discipulus patriam ornavit linguam Johannis Wiclevi ipsius Berengarii in religione doctrinam sequebatur Tractatus hos fecit Planctum proprium Dialogum and amicum De quadam Imperatrice De arte moriendi De coelesti Hierusalem De quodam Jonatha De Regimine Principis * John Lidgate Monk of Bury an excellent Poet He travelled France and Italy to learn the Languages and Sciences * That is Geffrey Vinesause of whom read in the Recital of Authors This William Caxton of London Mercer brought Printing out of Germany into England about the latter end of the Reign of Henry the Sixth and practised the same in the Abbey of St. Peter at Westminster It was first found in Germany at Mogunce by one John Cuthembergus a Knight and brought to Rome by Conradus an Almaigne as some Authors say