. A mediaeval princess : being a true record of the changing fortunes which brought divers titles to Jacqueline, Countess of Holland, together with an account of her conflict with Philip, Duke of Burgundy (1401-1436) . ofthree hundred followers, partly English andpartly Teutons, came to St. Albans for theChristmas holidays.^ Teutons probablymeans the Dutch and other Netherlanderswho had drifted into Jacquelines abbot was just then abroad at theCouncil of Pavia, and the honours of thehouse were done by the prior, who receivedthe guests with a solemn procession onChristmas Eve. Perha
. A mediaeval princess : being a true record of the changing fortunes which brought divers titles to Jacqueline, Countess of Holland, together with an account of her conflict with Philip, Duke of Burgundy (1401-1436) . ofthree hundred followers, partly English andpartly Teutons, came to St. Albans for theChristmas holidays.^ Teutons probablymeans the Dutch and other Netherlanderswho had drifted into Jacquelines abbot was just then abroad at theCouncil of Pavia, and the honours of thehouse were done by the prior, who receivedthe guests with a solemn procession onChristmas Eve. Perhaps his hand was lessstrong to maintain order in the abbeys ju-risdiction for there was much lawlessness,unruliness, and poaching in the neighbour-hood during this visit, chiefly on the part ofthe Dukes retainers. The impetuous Hum-phrey determined to make an example ofone of his servants who was among the cul-prits. He had the man placed in the stocks, His chronicle is printed with that of Amundesham: Annates Mon-asterie S. Alhani, Henry Thomas Riley, editor, Roll series, p. 4; seealso Journ. Brit. Arch., 1871. The abbey of St. Albans was at theend of the first days journey from London on the great north DUKE HUMPHREYS LIBRARY, OXFORD. Jacqueline in lenglanb loi ** broke his head with a mattrass beater, and ordered his greyhound to be hanged, ashe had been the mans companion in his ne-farious hunting in the abbey woods. DukeHumphrey was nothing if not strenuouswhen he felt like it, and the writer may bebelieved that his summary methods set atrest this evil appetite for sporting on part ofhis servants. When they departed, theducal visitors left two purple robes as apresent.^ At another time, on the day of the exal-tation of the Holy Cross, after the celebra-tion of vespers, the Duchess of Holland rodethrough the great court of the abbey at-tended by twenty-four horsemen, on herway to the royal mansion at Langley, andnext day the Duke followed her accompa-nied by the knigh
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