Lady Clare's Will and the Pardoner's Hundred Marks

Author / Editor
Storm, Melvin.

Title
Lady Clare's Will and the Pardoner's Hundred Marks

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 89 (1988): 57-62.

Description
The Pardoner's 100 marks (PardP 390) correspond strikingly to the amount stipulated by Lady Clare, Elizabeth de Burgh (grandmother to the wife of young Geoffrey Chaucer's lord, Prince Lionel) to have prayers and good works performed for her soul and the souls of her husbands.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.