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Mr. Godwin then showed that the reduction of Chaucer's age by eighteen years or less was in contradiction to Gower's reference to his friend's "dayés old" and to Chaucer's own For I am old," in "The House of Fame," which was written when he was still Comptroller of Customs, therefore, not later than 1386, the very year when the Scrope and Grosvenor Roll calls his age "forty and more.' Although he was the discoverer of this new ground for question, Godwin made a right estimate of its value, and he built no theory upon it. In 1832, Sir Harris Nicolas printed privately for subscribers the Scrope and Grosvenor Roll, with a History of the Family of Scrope and Biographical Notices of upwards of two hundred of the Deponents in favour of Sir Richard Scrope, including Chaucer. The third volume, which was to have contained biographical notices of the other deponents for Sir Richard and of the deponents for Sir Robert Grosvenor, did not appear. Sir Harris Nicolas, in comparing known facts of the lives of deponents with the statements of their ages on this Roll, had occasion again and again to show, from in |