TABLE OF CONTENTS 



THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF CHAUCER'S KNIGHT 



L Chaucer and Henry, Earl of Derby . . . 165 

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



Chaucer and Henry's Relatives . . . .175 



Chaucer and Henry's Dependents . . . 190 



Chaucer and Henry . . . . . . 192 



Henry at the Siege of Vilna .... 196 



Other Englishmen in Prussia .... 202 



Henry's Acquaintance with the Table of Honor, 



and its Bearing on the Date of the Prologue . 209 



The Current Theory regarding the Date of the 



Prologue 212 



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



