In 2007 the late Gloria Cigman published a novel, A Wife There Was, based on one of Chaucer's best known Canterbury pilgrims, the Wife of Bath. The present article adopts the same kind of realistic approach to two of Chaucer's other pilgrims, the Poor Parson and the Clerk of Oxford, exploring their lives and relating them to the educational system of Thirteenthh- and Fourteenth-Century England.