TABLE OF CONTENTS 



THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF CHAUCER'S KNIGHT 



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I. Chaucer and Henry, Earl of Derby 



I. The Earl of Derby's Return to London in 1393 166 



2. Chaucer and Henry's Relatives .... 175 



3. Chaucer and Henry's Dependents . . .190 



4. Chaucer and Henry ...... 192 



5. Henry at the Sieg'e of Vilna .... 196 



6. Other Englishmen in Prussia .... 202 



7. Henry's Acquaintance with the Table of Honor, 



and its Bearing on the Date of the Prologue . 209 



8. The Current Theory reg'arding' the Date of the 



Prologue . . . ... . .212 



n. Chaucer's Knight and his Exploits in the South 216 



