er was a yeoman, stating, "Certainly he was in the King's service in 1367, when Edward III awarded his 'dilectus vallectus' (26)." Already known to have been a yeoman, Chaucer's background experience makes way to the incorporation of Yeomen in The Canterbury Tales.
             In Chaucer's work, The Canterbury Tales, two yeomen are mentioned and described in the prologue and tales, in which he was able to write during the fourteenth century. These two yeomen are mentioned at different times in the tales. The first yeoman is known as the Squire's yeoman. The yeoman accompanies the knight and the squire on the journey to Canterbury. The Prologue describes him as:
             And he was clad in coat and hood of green.
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