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Excerpt from Life-Records of Chaucer: The Robberies of Chaucer
The proceedings in the robbery trial were led up to, by an entry in the enrolled account of Chaucer as Clerk of the King's Works. This entry, discovered by Mr Furnivall, enabled me to trace out the Petition in which Chaucer prayed to be forgiven the repayment of the sum of 20 of the King's money, of which he had been robbed near to the fowle 0k, and through this Petition the proceedings in the King's Bench were disclosed.
The entries connected with the trial of the gang of highwaymen concerned in this and other robberies, are somewhat lengthy, owing to the numerous adjournments, and the formal character of the pleadings in matters of this nature; the whole of the documents have however been copied as they appear on the Rolls, - except that the abbreviations have been extended, - so that those who may not have the opportunity of consulting the originals, may see the mode in which such pleadings were entered up in early days. I have also thought it well to add a brief summary of the main points in the trial of the robbers.
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