Editing Geoffrey Chaucer (section)

===Later life===
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In September 1390, records say that Chaucer was robbed and possibly injured while conducting the business, and he stopped working in this capacity on 17&nbsp;June 1391. He began as Deputy Forester in the royal forest of [[Petherton Park]] in [[North Petherton]], Somerset on 22&nbsp;June.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Weiskott |first=Eric |date=1 January 2013 |title=Chaucer the Forester: The Friar's Tale, Forest History, and Officialdom |jstor=10.5325/chaucerrev.47.3.0323 |journal=The Chaucer Review |volume=47 |issue=3 |pages=323–336 |doi=10.5325/chaucerrev.47.3.0323|s2cid=162585929 }}</ref> It involved administering an area which included moorland, cultivated fields, villages and a forest.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Andrew |first1=M. |title=The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Chaucer |date=2016 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |page=60}}</ref>

Richard II granted him an annual pension of 20 pounds in 1394 ({{Inflation|index=UK|value=20|start_year=1394|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}),<ref>Ward, p. 109.</ref> and Chaucer's name fades from the historical record not long after Richard's overthrow in 1399. The last few records of his life show his pension renewed by the new king and his taking a lease on a residence within the [[Close of the Collegiate Church of St Peter|close of Westminster Abbey]] on 24&nbsp;December 1399.<ref>Morley (1890); Vol. V, pp. 247–248.</ref> Henry IV renewed the grants assigned by Richard, but ''The Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse'' hints that the grants might not have been paid. The last mention of Chaucer is on 5&nbsp;June 1400, when some debts owed to him were repaid.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Manly |first1=John Matthews |title=Chaucer Life-records |date=1966 |publisher=Clarendon Press |page=532}}</ref>

Chaucer died of unknown causes on 25&nbsp;October 1400, although the only evidence for this date comes from the engraving on his tomb, which was erected more than 100 years after his death. There is some speculation<ref>{{cite book |author1=Jones, Terry |author2= Yeager, Robert F. |author3= Doran, Terry |author4= Fletcher, Alan |author5= D'or, Juliett |year=2003 |title=Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery |publisher= Methuen |isbn=0-413-75910-5 }}</ref> that he was murdered by enemies of Richard II or even on the orders of his successor Henry IV, but the case is entirely circumstantial. Chaucer was buried in Westminster Abbey in London, as was his right owing to his status as a tenant of the Abbey's close. In 1556, his remains were transferred to a more ornate tomb, making him the first writer interred in the area now known as [[Poets' Corner]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Poets' Corner History|url=https://www.westminster-abbey.org/about-the-abbey/history/poets-corner |access-date=12 May 2020 |agency=WestminsterAbbey.org}}</ref>