What Does This Mean for Chaucer?

Is there any sense that he was looking to protect his legacy within these legal proceedings? Is there anything to sort of point to that sort of line of thought? So it's a really interesting question about what this means for Chaucer the person, Chaucer the man who lived and worked and died in medieval London. I think one thing we should say is that whenever we look at the biography of a character and life records more generally, we are only ever seeing snippets. We are seeing bits here. In terms of Chaucer's legacy, I think that's something where this change in language between the two quick claims can now rule out that that is an attempt by Chaucer to protect his own