Chaucer’s disputed legacy: new discoveries
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What Do We Know About Cecily Sean Payne?
What do we know about Cecily Champagne, what service would she have been providing to Geoffrey Chaucer and indeed Thomas Staunton. It's one that we don't really have a concrete answer for, because this case never actually goes anywhere. There are loads of different potential here. We shouldn't just think of servants as being low class. They could be housekeepers, they could be good cooks. So we are, there's a whole load of different possibilities here.
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