A New Life Record for John Gower, 1396.
- Author/Editor
- Sobecki, Sebatian.
- Title
- A New Life Record for John Gower, 1396.
- Published
- Medium Ævum 89.2 (2020): 381-82.
- Review
- Sobecki's 2017 "Speculum" essay, "A Southwark Tale: Gower, the Poll Tax of 1381, and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales," introduced, among other documents, a plea of account submitted by John Gower in Easter Term of 1396 against Thomas Forester and John Gay (TNA, CP40/541, m. 46f.). This note introduces a new Gower life record related to that 1396 plea: a second plea of account by Gower against Forester and Gay from Trinity Term 1396, in which Gower again attempts to compel Gay and Forester. The note includes a transcription and translation of this newly discovered plea. [BWG. Copyright. The John Gower Society. eJGN 40.2.]
- Date
- 2020
- Gower Subjects
- Biography of Gower