 | Sir Richard Le Scrope - Heraldry - 1832 - 506 pages
...Edw. III. m. 8. GEOFFREY- London.1 On the 8th June 1374 he was appointed Comptroller CHAUCER, ESQ. of the Customs and Subsidy of Wools, Skins, and Tanned Hides in the Port of London, during the King's pleasure, receiving the same fees as other comptrollers, and it was provided that... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...when in England. On the 8th June, 1374, shortly after his return from his first mission to Italy, he was appointed Comptroller of the Customs, and Subsidy...Skins, and tanned Hides," in the port of London, and this office he continued to hold for twelve years, though he was bound to write the rolls of his office... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1845 - 348 pages
...commuted for a money payment; and grants of wine seem to have been frequently made with no other object. On the 8th of June 1374, Chaucer was appointed Comptroller...Wools, Skins, and tanned Hides in the Port of London, during the King's pleasure, taking the same fees as other Comptrollers of the Customs and Subsidy.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1849 - 608 pages
...when in England. On tlie 8th June, 1374, shortly after his return from his first mission to Italy, he was appointed Comptroller of the Customs, and Subsidy...Skins, and tanned Hides," in the port of London, and this office he continued to hold for twelve years, though he was bound to write the rolls of his office... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 636 pages
...when in England. On the 8th June 1374, shortly after his return from his first mission to Italy, he was appointed Comptroller of the Customs, and Subsidy...Skins, and tanned Hides," in the port of London, and this office he continued to hold for twelve years, though he was bound to write the rolls of his office... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1853 - 248 pages
...ambassador, and that the king was satisfied with his services, we can have no doubt ; for on the 23d of April following the monarch made him a grant for life of a pitoher of wine daily, an appropriate gift for a poet, but which nevertheless seems to have been soon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 360 pages
...grant for life of a gallon of wine daily ; and in the following June was appointed to the office of comptroller of the customs and subsidy of wools, skins, and tanned hides in the port of London, a post of considerable emolument. Further, in November 1374, the king granted him the wardship of Sir... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1866 - 498 pages
...commuted for a money payment ; and grants of wine seem to have been frequently made with no other object. On the 8th of June 1374, Chaucer was appointed Comptroller...Wools, Skins, and tanned Hides in the Port of London, during the King's pleasure, taking the same fees as other Comptrollers of the Customs and Subsidy.... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1867 - 492 pages
...twenty marks (140/.). In less than another two months after the grant of the daily pitcher of wine, Chaucer was appointed Comptroller of the Customs and...Wools, Skins, and Tanned Hides in the Port of London, during the king's pleasure, taking the same fees as other Comptrollers of the Customs and Subsidy.... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1867 - 488 pages
...twenty marks (140Z.). In less than another two months after the grant of the daily pitcher of wine, Chaucer was appointed Comptroller of the Customs and...Wools, Skins, and Tanned Hides in the Port of London, during the king's pleasure, taking the same fees iis other Comptrollers of the Customs and Subsidy.... | |
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Meanwhile in 1374 he was appointed Comptroller of the Customs and Subsidy of Wools, Skins, and Tanned Hides... 
