A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Usk, Thomas

by John William Cousin

Usk, Thomas (d. 1388).—Poet, b. in London, was sec. to John of Northampton, the Wyclifite Lord Mayor of London, whom he betrayed to save himself, in which, however, he failed, being executed in 1388. During his imprisonment, which lasted from 1384 until his death, he composed The Testament of Love, a didactic poem long attributed to Chaucer.