 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1867 - 282 pages
...port of London from the hands of the king's butlerI. About six weeks later, on the 8th of June, he was appointed Comptroller of the Customs and Subsidy of Wools, Skins and Leather, in the Port of London m, and on the 1 3th of the same month he received a pension of io/.... | |
 | Frederick James Furnivall - 1868 - 364 pages
...of wine daily for life was granted, ' dilecto Armigero nostro, Galfrido Chaucer.' „ June 8. He is appointed Comptroller of the Customs and Subsidy of...Wools, Skins, and tanned Hides in the Port of London. . . He is to write the rolls of his Office with his own hand, to be continually present, and to perform... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1869 - 304 pages
...port of London from the hands of the king's butler m. About six weeks later, on the 8th of June, he was appointed Comptroller of the Customs and Subsidy of Wools, Skins and Leather, in the Port of London n, and on the 1 3th of the same month he received a pension of io/.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1870 - 388 pages
...distinguished: he enjoyed, during a long period, various profitable offices, having been for twelve years comptroller of the customs and subsidy of wools, skins, and tanned hides in the port of London; and he seems also to have been occasionally employed in diplomatic negotiations. Thus, he was joined with... | |
 | Chaucer Society (London, England) - 1871 - 180 pages
...of wine daily for life was granted, ' dilecto Armigero nostro, Galfrido Chaucer.' „ June 8. He is appointed Comptroller of the Customs and Subsidy of...Wools, Skins, and tanned Hides in the Port of London. . . He is'to write the rolls of his Office with his own hand, to be continually present, and to perform... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...eagle to him. When you have done the reckonings of your day's office work (over the books relating to the customs and subsidy of wools, skins, and tanned hides in the port of London) " Thou goest home to thine house anone, And allso dumb as a stone Thou sittest at another book Till... | |
 | William Minto - 1874 - 520 pages
...intrusted with very unsuitable posts, our poet must have had a decidedly commercial turn. In 1374 he was appointed Comptroller of the Customs and Subsidy...Skins, and Tanned Hides in the Port of London ; and he had to perform his duties in person, without the option of a deputy. In his " House of Fame," perhaps... | |
 | William Minto - English poetry - 1874 - 506 pages
...intrusted with very unsuitable posts, our poet must have had a decidedly commercial turn. In 1374 he was appointed Comptroller of the Customs and Subsidy...Skins, and Tanned Hides in the Port of London; and he had to perform his duties in person, without the option of a deputy. In his " House of Fame," perhaps... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1874 - 612 pages
...duties are of course coaival with fixed rule in England, and stretch back beyond the days when Geotl'rey Chaucer was appointed Comptroller of the Customs,...wools, skins, and tanned hides in the port of London, on this notable condition, " that he should write the rolls of his office with his own hand, and perform... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1874 - 446 pages
...distinguished; during a long period, he enjoyed various profitable offices, having been for twelve years comptroller of the customs and subsidy of wools, skins, and tanned hides in the port of London; and he seems also to have been occasionally employed in diplomatic negotiations. Thus he was, in 1373,... | |
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Meanwhile in 1374 he was appointed Comptroller of the Customs and Subsidy of Wools, Skins, and Tanned Hides... 
