Chaucer's Inn, Canterbury.

This Inn, so celebrated by the father of English poetry in his "Canterbury Tales," is still standing, and is situated on the north side of the High Street, opposite to St. Margaret's Church, in a narrow lane, anciently called Le Mercerie, now Mercery-Lane, from that trade having been principally carried on there. Before the civil wars of Charles I. there was a colonnade on each side of it, like that formerly on London Bridge. The other houses in the lane are the most ancient of any in the city of Canterbury; and this house, sanctified by genius, is held in due reverence by the inhabitants and travellers.

WICKLIFFE'S CHAIR, AT LUTTERWORTH.

With a relic of the father of our Poetry, we present our readers with another of the parent of our religious Reformation. This chair is still preserved at Lutterworth as that in which Wickliffe, on being seized, while preaching, with paralysis, was conveyed home, and in which he subsequently died. His table is also in being; and both confer interest and celebrity on a town otherwise inconsiderable.

Chaucer's Inn, Canterbury.

This Inn, so celebrated by the father of English poetry in his "Canterbury
Tales," is still standing, and is situated on the north side of the High Street,
opposite to St. Margaret's Church, in a narrow lane, anciently called Le Mer-
cerie, now Mercery-Lane, from that trade having been principally carried on
there. Before the civil wars of Charles I. there was a colonnade on each side
of it, like that formerly on London Bridge. The other houses in the lane are
the most ancient of any in the city of Canterbury; and this house, sanctified by
genius, is held in due reverence by the inhabitants and travellers.

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Yale Center for British Art, 2017