Excerpt from Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet, Vol. 4 of 4: Including Memoirs of His Near Friend and Kinsman, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster; With Sketches of the Manners, Opinions, Arts and Literature of England in the Fourteenth Century Richard for taking him into custody 18 doubt ful According to his own account, they were desirous of extorting from him some confession as to his confederates. Satisfied, as they were, of the innocence and honour of the king of Castille, they perhaps hoped to gather from Chaucer something that might be tortured into an accusation against his patron, and might enable them to revive and eke out their infamous prosecution of this virtuous prince. Chaucer had scarcely arrived in England, before he was arrested by an. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.