Geoffrey Chaucer and Adam Easton were contempories, dying within a couple of years of each other. Often they found themselves in opposition, Chaucer working for his Lord the King, Adam working for his the Pope. And yet they had much in common. Both depended on sinecures to  fund and support them in their real vocations as writers and whereas Chaucer is rightly remembered as a great writer in English, Adam's own work was of no less merit or importance for the influence it was to have on English hstory. The two men probably met, just the once outside Calais in 1373 when Adam was working for the Pope attempting to negotiate a peace treaty between England and France, and Chaucer was returning from Italy on a diplomatic mission for Edward III.

As a friend of Wyclif in particular Chaucer wrote scathingly in his poems about monks and churchmen abusing their position of privilege and trust. And yet the Tale of St Cecilia appears to have interesting connections to Adam Easton, perhaps not a coincidence as in the aftermath of the Peasants Revolt, Wyclif's ideas about bashing the established church were no longer quite as trendy as they once had been.