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1 “Thomas Chaucer, One Man or Two?” PMLA xlviii, 328–339.
2 Ibid., p. 329 f.
3 Many of these relations are considered in my “Chaucerian Problems” Three Chaucer Studies (New York, 1932), Chap. ii and vi.
4 Op. cit., p. 337.
5 Ibid., p. 337, note 9.—Professor Baugh takes the reference from Hennessy, George, Novum Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londoninense (London, 1898), p. 45.
6 Hennessy, op. cit., p. 45.
7 Baugh, op. cit., p. 339. From Calendar of Papal Registers, Papal Letters, vi, 368–369.
8 The record cited in the preceding note is dated September, 1412 and states that Chaumbre had recently died during the course of an investigation into his archdeaconship ordered by the present Pope.
9 C.P.R., Papal Petitions, 1342–1419, p. 292.—In the same year Chaumbre was granted the benifice of Little Thrillowe in Norwich (Patent Rolls, 1354–1358), p. 503.
10 Cokayne's The Complete Peerage, ed. V. Gibbs (London, 1912) ii, 426–427.
11 See “Chaucerian Problems,” Chap. vi, and the genealogical table of Thomas Chaucer's Burghersh connections on page 94.
12 Close Rolls, 1392–1396, p. 446.