- Moral offences
- Adultery
- Not paying taxes
- Red cheeked
- Sign of heavy drinking
- Ugly, or horrible to look at
- Children feared him
- Tried to use ointment to heal his face
- Didn't work
- Educated (possibly in the church)
- Only spoke latin when he was drunk
- Blackmails people
- Could be bribed easily
- Made money through dubious means
- Like monk and friar
- Bad example for member of the clergy
- Similar social status to the knight
- Superior to majority of the country
- Other members of the clergy on this pilgrimage care about how they look
- e.g. The prioress
- Controversial sexuality
- Homosexual with the pardoner?
- Homosexuality was frowned upon during Chaucerian times (penalty of death)
- Hideousness linked with homosexuality
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