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    The document provides a chart summarizing the pilgrims described in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" prologue. It lists each pilgrim's transportation, physical traits, virtues or vices, and sometimes their occupation. There are 29 pilgrims described ranging from knights to nuns to tradesmen like the miller, cook, and pardoner. The chart acts as a guide to the diverse characters that will tell stories on their pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral.

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    The document provides a chart summarizing the pilgrims described in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" prologue. It lists each pilgrim's transportation, physical traits, virtues or vices, and sometimes their occupation. There are 29 pilgrims described ranging from knights to nuns to tradesmen like the miller, cook, and pardoner. The chart acts as a guide to the diverse characters that will tell stories on their pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral.

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    The document provides a chart summarizing the pilgrims described in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" prologue. It lists each pilgrim's transportation, physical traits, virtues or vices, and sometimes their occupation. There are 29 pilgrims described ranging from knights to nuns to tradesmen like the miller, cook, and pardoner. The chart acts as a guide to the diverse characters that will tell stories on their pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral.

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    The document provides a chart summarizing the pilgrims described in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" prologue. It lists each pilgrim's transportation, physical traits, virtues or vices, and sometimes their occupation. There are 29 pilgrims described ranging from knights to nuns to tradesmen like the miller, cook, and pardoner. The chart acts as a guide to the diverse characters that will tell stories on their pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral.

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    The Canterbury Tales Pilgrim Chart (from the Prologue)

    Pilgrim

    Transportation

    Major Physical Traits/ and Distinguishing Features

    Follies/Vices/Negative Qualities

    Positive Traits /Virtues/Attributes

    Chaucer (narrator)

    Knight

    Squire (knights son) 20 years old

    Yeoman ( a forester or outdoorsman) also an attendant in a royal household Nun (also called a Prioress, a nun corresponding in rank to a prior or second highest in a monastery where an abbot is the highest) Monk

    The Friar (Hubert) a limiter, he is limited to the area where he can beg

    Merchant (a member of the wealthy middleclass

    Oxford Cleric (a student)

    Sergeant of Law ( an attorney)

    The Franklin (a land owner: a freeholder of non noble birth, extensive holdings

    The guildsman (haberdasher, carpenter, dyer, weaver and carpet maker)

    Cook

    Skipper ( the shipman)

    The Doctor (of physic)

    The Wife of Bath

    The Parson (he practiced what he preached)

    The Plowman

    The Miller (Robin is his name)

    The Manciple (steward at a law school)

    The Reeve (the manager of an estate)

    The Summoner (his job is to sum sinners to church court trials)

    The Pardoner (sells pardons)

    Harry Bailey (the host)

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