Life:
c.1368	born ?in Hockliffe, Beds.
1387	entered Privy Seal Office, Westminster, as a clerk; lived at the Keeper's hospicium of Chester's Inn in the Strand.
till 1392	underclerk to Guy de Rouclif
till 1399	7½ d a day
1394	corrody at Hayling Priory
1399	£10 annuity of Henry IV
1409	£13.6s.8d annuity, marriage
till 1415	quasi-official writer on political occasions
8 July 1415 to 1 Nov 1416	mental disorder
before 8 May 1426	died at the age of 58
Work:
1402	Letter of Cupid
1405	La Male Regle de T. Hoccleve
1411	Regiment of Princes
till 1415	various shorter poems, such as Balades to Sir Henry Somner, or to King Henry V, etc.
1415	Remonstrance against Sir John Oldcastle
1421-22	The Series:
	- Complaint of Hoccleve
	- Dialogue with a Friend
	- Tale of Jereslaus' Wife
	- Learn to Die
	- Tale of Jonathas

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