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by K. M. Grant


  1370

  Chaucer runs royal errands to France

  1376

  Chaucer in France on royal mission to negotiate peace

  1378

  Edward III dies. Richard II, aged ten, succeeds the throne

  1380

  The case against Chaucer for raptus (which might mean rape, kidnapping, or seizure) is dropped; Chaucer begins to write The Parliament of Fowls

  1381

  The Peasants’ Revolt: Richard II bravely meets the mob, promises them much, saying, “I’ll never go back on my word.” He does not keep this promise

  1386

  The Duke of Gloucester and the Earl of Arundel complain of Richard’s extravagance and his policy of peace with France. A controlling council—the commission—is imposed on the king, much to his humiliation

  Chaucer begins to write The Canterbury Tales

  1387

  Chaucer’s wife dies

  1393

  Richard II gives Chaucer £10 for “services rendered”

  1394

  Richard II grants Chaucer an annuity of £20 for life

  1397

  Richard II takes his revenge on the commission but his position is very shaky

  1398

  Richard II grants Chaucer a “tonel” (252 gallons) of wine, to be delivered every year for the rest of Chaucer’s life

  1399

  Henry Bolingbroke (later Henry IV) lands in England and claims the crown of England

  1400

  Richard is taken prisoner and dies in Pontefract Castle, probably murdered

  Chaucer signs a receipt for his tonel of wine and probably dies soon after

  ALSO BY K. M. GRANT

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  Green Jasper

  Blaze of Silver

  How the Hangman Lost His Heart

  The Perfect Fire Trilogy

  Blue Flame

  White Heat

  Paradise Red

  Copyright © 2010 by K. M. Grant

  Electronic edition published in November 2011

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

  Originally published in Great Britain by Quercus Books in 2010

  First published in the United States of America in November 2011

  by Walker Publishing Company, Inc., a division of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.

  www.bloomsburyteens.com

  For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to

  Permissions, Walker BFYR, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10010

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Grant, K. M. (Katie M.)

  Belle’s song / by K.M. Grant.—1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: In 1387, fifteen-year-old Belle joins Geoffrey Chaucer, his scribe Luke, squire

  Walter, and others on a pilgrimage from London to Canterbury to atone and pray for a cure

  for her father’s crippling injury, but political intrigue threatens them all.

  ISBN 9780802722768

  [1. Pilgrims and pilgrimages—Fiction. 2. Voyages and travels—Fiction. 3. Knights and

  knighthood—Fiction. 4. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400—Fiction. 5. Middle Ages—Fiction.

  6. Great Britain—History—Richard II, 1377–1399—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.G7667755Bel 2011 [Fic]—dc22 2010038026

  Table of Contents

  Cover

  Title Page

  Contents

  Dedication

  1

  2

  3

  4

  5

  6

  7

  8

  9

  10

  11

  12

  13

  14

  15

  16

  17

  18

  Author’s Note

  Selected Timeline

  Also By K. M. Grant

  Imprint

 

 

 


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