ISBN: 1130074374

[EAN: 9781130074376], Neubuch, FRANCIS TATE,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a fre… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781130074376], Neubuch, FRANCIS TATE,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: . . . Eobert was a collector of wine duties in London in 1312, and his father John was a vintner of London in 1342. There was a Eobert de London at Lynn in 1295 (Feet of Fines (Norfolk), Ed. I. No. 681), and again in 1307-9, and who imported and exported goods to and from Lynn in 1309. He was a Custom House officer there 1 From the Academy, 1886. 1 This history is said to have been written by Ben Adam for Edward IV. It was quoted by the Norfolk Tour of 1829: -- In addition to these worthies of Lynn, the Lennae Redenina, upon what authority we know not, says, under the head Friars, --1 Lynn had the honour to present the world With Geoffery Chaucer, Capgrave, and the curled Pate Albanus de Lenna, John Barstone, William Cocheford, John Thomson, Thomas Lambe, andt did afford The Court a jeaster, Hugh of Lynn was he, All famous in theyr time, Lynn, nursed by thee. Norfolk tour, vol. i. , p. 464, A. D. 1829. ) Mr. Bye has not yet been able to trace this Lenna Rediviva. --F. J. F. 132 Chaucers Connection With Norfolk. in 1338 (Lynn Customs Koll, W. N. , 1881). Again, there was a Geoffrey le Suter1 exporting and importing goods from and to Lynn in 1324. Could he have been an uncle of the poet, after whom the latter was named 1 3. Chaucer, we know, was patronised by John of Gaunt. How they became acquainted is not known. Is it not probable that John of Gaunt accompanied his father, Edward III. , in one or more of the journeys we know the latter made to Lynn for the purpose of visiting his mother Isabella (the she-wolf ) while she was at Rising Castle hard by She was there in 1357, when Chaucer was in Prince Lionels household (p. 24, above). 4. Chaucer speaks of Friar Nicholas of Lynn, that reverend clerk. Friar Nicholas wrote a treatise . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<