Oct. 1, 1386: Chaucer was elected Knight of the Shire for Kent, which office he still held in April, 1387.
Dec. 31, 1384: Wycliffe died.
1386: John of Gaunt left England for Castile.
4. According to Chaucer scholars, the third wife of John of Gaunt was probably a sister of Chaucer’s wife. Upon this probability, though it could not have been a fact until after 1387, the author bases his dramatic license of referring to Chaucer and the Duke of Lancaster as brothers-in-law.
PERCY MACKAYE.
New York, March, 1903.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The psalms, as indicated by Mr. Matthew, are as follows: Beginning Deus regnavit, xxiii, xcix; Jubilate, c, lxvi; Deus, Deus, meus, xxii, lxiii; Benedicite, The Song of the Three Children? (Apocrypha.) Laudate, cxiii, cxvii, cxxxiv, cxlvii, cxlviii.
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