Produced by Louise Hope, Taavi Kalju and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) [This text uses UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the Latin-1 version of the file instead. The text is based on the 1865 EETS edition of Thynne’s _Animadversions_. Two purely typographic features have been adopted from the 1876 Chaucer Society re-edition of the same MS. Passages printed in brackets in 1865 have been changed to 1876’s parentheses; conversely, letters and whole words supplied by the editor are shown in brackets, reserving italics for expanded abbreviations. A few apparent errors were corrected from the 1876 text. Some other differences between the two editions are noted at the end of the e-text. Italicized letters within a word are shown in {braces}. Other italics are shown conventionally with _lines_. Superscripts are shown with carets ^. The Sidenotes have been duplicated at the beginning of the text to act as a table of contents.] Animaduersions uppon Chaucer’s Workes. [Sidenotes: The author is vexed that Master Speight did not consult him on his new edition of Chaucer. Also vexed at a side blow at his father’s edition, and justifies him as editor. His father’s collection of MS. Chaucers and their curiosity. The Pilgrime’s Tale telling forth the evil lives of churchmen. William Thynne in favour with Henry VIII., who promiseth to countenance him. The promise broken through the power of Wolsey. The most part of Colin Clout written at William Thynne’s house at Erith. Chaucer’s works like to be destroyed by parliament. Reasons why the Pilgrime’s Tale should be Chaucer’s. How William Thynne’s collection of Chaucer’s MS. was dispersed abroad. He differeth from Master Speight on Chaucer’s family. Chausier, one who hoseth or shueth a man. Chaucer his arms injustly undervalued. Philippa of Henault came not over with Prince Edward. Bartholomew de Burgersh sent for Philippa of Henault. The conjecture that Chaucer’s ancestors were merchants, of no valydytye. Master Speight misquoteth Gower. Chaucer submitteth his works to Gower, not Gower to Chaucer. Gower the poet was not of the Gowers (or Gores) of Stittenham. Gower’s chaplette for knighthood not for poetry. The chaplette of roses a peculiar ornament of honour. The knighting of Erle Mortone of Normandye. Chaucer being a grave man unlikely to beat a Franciscan Fryer but? The lawyers not in the temple till the latter part of Edward III.