 | Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1886 - 478 pages
...over his genius. During the same ten years honours and offices were freely showered on him. In 1374 he was appointed comptroller of the customs and subsidy...skins, and tanned hides in the port of London, and about the same time he received other remunerative appointments which gave him an income equivalent... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1887 - 482 pages
...8 Nov. 1375 he obtained a probably attached to the ainbiissadors who . pension of twenty 8 June he was appointed comptroller of the customs and subsidy of wools, skins, and tinned hides in the port of London during the king's pleasure, taking the same fees as other comptrollers... | |
 | William Morris - 1888 - 270 pages
...England in 1451, when it was conquered by Charles VII. See on 226 below. 14, 15. Nigh . . . lading. "In June, 1374, Chaucer was appointed Comptroller of the...wools, skins, and tanned hides in the port of London. This patent (doubtless according to the usual official form) required him to write the rolls of his... | |
 | American Statistical Association - Computer network resources - 1921 - 1088 pages
...statistics in England. In 1374 we find that Geoffrey Chaucer (more famous as a poet than as a statistician) was appointed "Comptroller of the Customs, and Subsidy...Wools, Skins, and Tanned Hides in the Port of London, with the obligation to keep the records of his office with his own hand and to be continually present."!... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Reading - 1889 - 334 pages
...commuted in 1378 for a yearly payment of 20 marks. repair. About four 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 lo/.... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury (England) - 1889 - 332 pages
...Latin version of Boccaccio's Italian story. repair. About four 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/.... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Clarendon Press series - 1889 - 334 pages
...commuted in 1378 for a yearly payment of 20 marks. repair. About four 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 lo/.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 870 pages
...Thus he seems to have been highly valued as a commissioner and a diplomatist. Meanwhile in 1374 he was appointed Comptroller of the Customs and Subsidy...Wools, Skins, and Tanned Hides in the port of London ; in 1382, Comptroller of the Petty Customs ; and in 1385 he was allowed to nominate a permanent deputy... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1890 - 384 pages
...222 EJKLJSH Wzrrcxs. Uji-»374 that is, when you hare gone home from your day's work as Cori.ptrolier of the Customs and Subsidy of Wools, Skins, and Tanned Hides, in the Port of London (office obtained at the age of about forty-two). — " Than gost boom to thy boas »"""", And also... | |
 | 1891 - 878 pages
...Thus he seems to have been highly valued as a commissioner and a diplomatist. Meanwhile in 1374 he was appointed Comptroller of the Customs and Subsidy...Wools, Skins, and Tanned Hides in the port of London ; in 1382, Comptroller of the Petty Customs ; and in 1:185 he was allowed to nominate a permanent deputy... | |
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Meanwhile in 1374 he was appointed Comptroller of the Customs and Subsidy of Wools, Skins, and Tanned Hides... 
