[1694] Dugdale, Mon. IV, p. 194.
[1695] V.C.H. Yorks. III, pp. 119, 120, 127, 164, 168, 174-5, 181, 183, 240.
[1696] Linc. Visit. II, p. 176; Alnwick’s Visit. MS. ff. 26d, 38.
[1697] V.C.H. Essex, II, 124.
[1698] Norwich Visit. p. 274.
[1699] V.C.H. Hants. II, p. 130, where the date is wrongly given as 1512.
[1701] Prologue, ll. 146-9. Chaucer was certainly a dog-lover: a passage in the Book of the Duchess (ll. 387 ff.) puts it beyond doubt:
I was go walked fro my tree,
And as I wente ther cam by me
A whelp, that fauned me as I stood
That hadde y-folowed, and coude no good.
Hit com and creep to me as lowe,
Right as hit badde me y-knowe,
Hild doun his heed and joyned his eres,
And leyde al smothe doun his heres.
I wolde han caught hit, and anoon
Hit fledde, and was fro me goon.
[1702] The Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry, ed. T. Wright (E.E.T.S. revised ed. 1906), pp. 28-9.