Possible Clues:

• When they were on the Bench were they severe?
• Those on the Bench might have made this severe
• Those old king's representatives could have been severe
• Chaucer's 'The ___ Tale'
• Keanu of Tinseltown
• Keanu - - (films)
• That's enough to make old officials become severe
• Bullock's co-star in "Speed"
• Chaucerian factors suggest author of Canterbury Rhymes ...
• In the matter of the girl's old officials