Pinchbeck and the Chaucer Circle in Law Reports and Records of 11-13 Richard II

Author / Editor
Bolton, W. F.

Title
Pinchbeck and the Chaucer Circle in Law Reports and Records of 11-13 Richard II

Published
Modern Philology 84 (1987): 401-407.

Description
Yearbook law reports and plea-roll law records contain information about members of Chaucer's "legal 'circle'" (p. 402) and Thomas Pynchbeck, Chaucer's prototype for the Man of Law. Legal terminology from these sources informs the portrait in both GP and MLT.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.