The Story of London

by Henry B. Wheatley

[63] Chaucer at Aldgate (Folia Litteraria, 1893, p. 87).

[64] Folia Litteraria, pp. 88, 89.

[65] Folia Litteraria, p. 100.

[66] Scrope and Grosvenor Roll, vol. i. p. 178 (translated from French).

[67] See letter of Prof. J. W. Hales, Athenæum, Aug. 9, 1902, p. 190.

[68] The Tabard was one among many inns from which travellers started on their journeys along the road to Canterbury and to the seaports of the South. The whole of the buildings which Chaucer knew were burnt in the great Southwark fire of 1676.

[69] Commune, p. 246. Further consideration is given to the condition of trade in London in the Middle Ages in chapter x.

[70] Liber Custumarum, ed. H. T. Riley, 1860, p. xxxvi.

[71] Liber Custumarum, p. cix.

[72] Inquis. 1 Henr. V., quoted by Riley, p. cix.