Before "The Canterbury Tales," Geoffrey Chaucer was a teenage ... On 4th July, 1378, a bead-maker, Simon Wylde de Estland, robbed a haberdasher’s shop in London. The victim, Thomas Trewe ...

Geoffrey Chaucer as seen in the early 15th-century Ellesmere Manuscript of The Canterbury Tales.Credit ... Turner lists the items stolen from a haberdasher's shop in London, near Paternoster ...