<i>Raptus</i> in the Chaumpaigne Release and a Newly Discovered Document Concerning the Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, By Christopher Cannon (biographical study) On May 4, 1380, Cecily Chaumpaigne brought a deed of release into the Chancery of Richard II and had it enrolled on the close rolls (i.e., recopied by a clerk on the back of those sheets of parchment used to record the "closed" or sealed letters sent by the king). In this deed Chaumpaigne released the poet Geoffrey Chaucer from "all manner of actions such as they relate to my rape or any other thing or cause" ("omnimodas acciones tam de raptu meo tam de aliqua alia re vel causa"). Moellerlit.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/2/4/10248653/canterbury_--_general_prologue.pdf. Moellerlit.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/2/4/10248653/canterbury_--_wife_of_bath_tale.pdf.
Caxton's Chaucer: Comparing the Texts. START: Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES. Med_Humours_Physiognomy. Which Canterbury Character are you? Year 14 - The Pardoner's Tale.