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Often appears with: trade, markets, and merchants · taxation, tribute, and revenue · royal patronage · customs administration · counsel and advisers to rulers · chaucer income · appointments and offices
Usually: narrative (1) · ambition and its cost (1) · detachment (1)
It narrates Chaucer’s royal patronage and offices in 1374–1376, including a daily wine grant from Edward III, his appointment as London Customs Controller, and later a fine victory regarding wool shipments.
the vines at Arqua; and we find in the history and the writings of Chaucer nothing to contradict, a good deal to countenance, the belief that such a meeting occurred. Though we have no express record, we have indirect testimony, that Chaucer’s Genoese mission was discharged satisfactorily; for on the 23d of April 1374, Edward III grants at Windsor to the poet, by the title of “our beloved squire” — dilecto Armigero …