[445] Coulton, Chaucer and his England, 99.
[446] James (M. R.), lxxii.; this number is probably correct, but owing to confusion between three Abbots of this name it is not certainly right.
[447] Ibid., lxxiv.
[448] Robinson, 4-7.
[449] O. H. S., 32, Collect. 36-40; also 9.
[450] Blakiston, Trin. Coll. 5, 7; A. de Murimuth, 171.
[451] R. de B., 197-199.
[452] “R. de Bury ... qui ipsum episcopatum et omnia sua beneficia prius habita per preces magnatum et ambitionis vitium adquisivit, et ideo toto tempore suo inopia laboravit et prodigus exstitit in expensis.”—Murimuth, 171.
[453] “Volens tamen magnus clericus reputari.”—Murimuth, 171.
[454] Skeat’s Chaucer, vi. 381.