The life of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340-1400), often labeled ... as he mentioned in an early poem, he knew “the figures ten,” or Arabic numerals, a vast improvement on the cumbrous Latin ...

Chaucer's coat of arms is painted twice on the monument ("party per pale argent and ... for earthly glories die away, read this monument". Geoffrey's son Thomas died in 1434 and is buried in Ewelme ...