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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: Chaucer---Burghersh
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 19:26:35 -0000
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I've cleaned up the Subject Line:

Her Father is reportedly John de Burghersh, Lord Kerdeston, of Ewelme,
Oxfordshire.

The Kerdeston line is well-traced in CP, _sub nomine_ Kerdeston. There
is a chart at CP VII:199.

Deus Vult.

"It may be said that, thanks to the 'clercs', humanity did evil for two
thousand years, but honoured good. This contradiction was an honour to
the human species, and formed the rift whereby civilisation slipped into
the world." "La Trahison des clercs" [The Treason of the Intellectuals]
(1927) Julien Benda (1867-1956)

Ubique Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt --- Motto of the Royal Artillery

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| Does anyone have the ancestry of Maud Burghersh wife of Thoams [sic]
Chaucer,
| Speaker of theHouse of Commons - her daughter Alice *1404 +20/5/1475,
married
| William de La Pole , duke of Suffolk.
| regards
| peter de Loriol


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