Professor Marion Turner
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first heard Feb 2026
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And then they found the writ, which was that someone called Thomas Stondon was making a lawsuit against the two of them.
What had happened, according to Stondon, was that Cecily had been his servant and she had left before the end of her contract to go and be Chaucer's servant.
So this was a labour dispute.
The reason then that Cecily would release him from any actions relating to a raptus would be that she was saying, no, I was not forcibly removed from my former employer.
a group of people meet, they meet in the Tabard Inn, which was a real pub just south of the river in Southwark.
They're all going off on pilgrimage to Canterbury.
And they decide that, you know, to make it less boring, so they don't just have to think about pilgrimage and God all the time, they're going to tell stories on the way there and on the way back, and they're going to compete for a free meal.
And the host, the innkeeper, Harry Bailey, is going to kind of run this tale-telling competition.
So you get this kind of group of people together who are all going to tell stories.
But it's really different from Boccaccio's.
And the big difference is the nature of the tale tellers.
So Boccaccio's tale tellers are all of the same class, which is high class.
Chaucer's are not.
So the highest class person is the knight, who's not that high.
And there is a ploughman at the bottom.
The vast majority are in between.
So, you know, we have a summoner.
a friar, a merchant, a man of law, a lawyer, a sailor, a cook, all of these.
The miller.
Yeah, the miller, the reader, all of these kinds of people.
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