LONDON DISCOVERY
BELIEVED TO BE CHAUCER’S HOUSE London, February 26. An underground chamber, discovered by workmen laying a cable between the House of Commons and Westminster Abbey, is believed to be the remains of the house occupied by the poet Chaucer in the fourteenth century before the Henry the Seventh Chapel was erected in in 15.15. The Chapel of St. Mary stood on practically the same site. The records show that Chaucer, when Parliamentary Clerk of Works, leased a house adjacent to St. Mary’s. The position of the chamber corresponds to what must ha’-*' been Chaucer’s house.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 128, 28 February 1928, Page 9
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97LONDON DISCOVERY Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 128, 28 February 1928, Page 9
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