young people followed suit. David even made all the
observations his own sense of honour and the eyes of his hosts
would permit, with a view to a future surprise. The escort of
Sir Patrick was asked to York by a Canon who had to journey
thither, and was anxious for protection from the outlaws--who
had begun to renew the doings of Robin Hood under the laxer rule
of the young Henry VI, though things were expected to be better
since the young Duke of York had returned from France.

Perhaps this arrangement was again a precaution for the
preservation of peace, and at York there was a splendid
entertainment by Cardinal Kemp; but all the 'subtleties' and
wonders--stags' heads in their horns, peacocks in their pride,
jellies with whole romances depicted in them, could not
reconcile the young Scots to the presumption of the Archbishop
reckoning Scotland into his province. Durham was at once too
monastic and too military to have afforded much opportunity for
recruiting the princesses' wardrobe; but York was the resort of
the merchants of Flanders, and Christie was sent in quest of
them and their wares, for truly the black serge kirtles and
shepherd's tartan screens that had made the journey from Dunbar
were in no condition to do honour to royal damsels.

Jean was in raptures with the graceful veils depending from the
horned headgear, worn, she was told, by the Duchess of Burgundy;
but Eleanor wept at the idea of obscuring the snood of a
Scottish maiden, and would not hear of resigning it.

'I feel as Elleen no more,' she said, 'but a mere Flanders
popinjay. It has changed my ain self upon me, as well as the