 | Sir Richard Le Scrope - 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
...absence. 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...Wools, 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... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1845 - 348 pages
...grants of wine seem to have been frequently made with no other object. On the 8th of June 1374, Chaucer was appointed Comptroller of the Customs and Subsidy...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.... | |
 | Percy Society - 1847 - 360 pages
...for the payment of its value in money. About six weeks after this, on the 8th of June 1374, Chaucer was appointed comptroller of the customs and subsidy...wools, skins, and tanned hides in the port of London ; and it was stipulated that he should write the rolls of his office with his own hand, and perform... | |
 | Percy Society - 1847 - 358 pages
...for the payment of its value in money. About six weeks after this, on the 8th of June 1374, Chaucer was appointed comptroller of the customs and subsidy...wools, skins, and tanned hides in the port of London; and it was stipulated that he should write the rolls of his office with his own hand, and perform his... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1847 - 350 pages
...for the payment of its value in money. About six weeks after this, on the 8th of June 1374, Chaucer was appointed comptroller of the customs and subsidy...wools, skins, and tanned hides in the port of London ; and it was stipulated that he should write the rolls of his office with his own hand, and perform... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 pages
...when in England. On tlie 8th June, 1374, shortly after his return from his first mission to Italy, hn Holmes Agnew( and this office he continued to hold for twelve years, though he was bound to write the rolls of his... | |
 | 1849 - 636 pages
...poet 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...Wools, 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... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1853 - 248 pages
...for the payment of its value in money. About six weeks after this, on the 8th of June 1374, Chaucer was appointed comptroller of the customs and subsidy...wools, skins, and tanned hides in the port of London ; and it was stipulated that he should write the rolls of his office with his own hand, and perform... | |
 | 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... | |
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Meanwhile in 1374 he was appointed comptroller of the Customs and Subsidy of Wools, Skins, and Tanned Hides... 
