2o8 Chaucer and Henry, Earl of Derby 



ters over. Vitovt, who was at this moment meditating treachery 

 against the Teutonic Order, with which he had been alhed, 

 appeared about June 24 at the castle of Ritterswerden. On 

 arriving at Tzuppa, between Insterburg and Kovno/ Vitovt sent 

 Percy and the other foreigners back to Konigsberg, with the 

 assurance that he did not need them.^ He then proceeded to 

 reveal his renewed enmity to the Order by making the garrison 

 of Ritterswerden prisoners, and burning the castle to the ground.^ 

 The next year after these events Hotspur was in Cyprus,* as 

 was Henry also,^ though probably they were not together.'' It 

 is painful to reflect that ten years after these visits to Cyprus 

 (July 21, 1403), Henry, to the shout of 'Henry Percy King!' 

 replied with the counter-shout, 'Henry Percy dead!' and that 

 the king's 'success involved the loss of all popularity, and all 

 future comfort.'" 



Henry, Earl of Derby. Having taken ship at Heacham on 

 July 24, Henry was at Konigsberg by Sept. 2, but appears to 

 have left by Sept. 3 or 4.® The Teutonic Order seems to have 

 paid him $30,000 toward the expenses of this expedition,^ though 

 they made no use of his services. ^° 



^D. A., p. xlix. 



'Wigand {S. R. P. 2. 648) ; Caro 3- no. 



^Voigt 5. 612; Caro 3. no. 



^D. A., p. 311; Stubbs, p. 198; Raine, Extracts from the Northern 

 Registers, p. 425. 



'£>. A., pp. Ixv, Ixxvii. 



°A leUer written July 15 b}' the King of Cyprus mentions Hotspur, 

 but not Henry — and Henry had been there in February. 



"Ramsay, Lancaster and York i. 63, 64; cf. Coulton, p. 51. 



^ D. A., pp. xlviii, Ixxii. 



' D. A., p. xlix. 



^° So far from receiving anything from the Order on his first mission, 

 it seems that he paid $1000 to two Prussian knights who attended him 

 on the campaign of about two months, to say nothing of other expenses 

 on the foray. If Chaucer, then, had Henry in mind in drawing the 

 portrait of his Knight, as Hertzberg (p. 579) in 1866 was the first to 

 suggest, it would seem that Trevelyan is wide of the mark when he 

 says (England in the Age of Wycliffe, p. 59) that the latter 'has 

 returned from letting out his services abroad, and is the sort of person 

 to enter into a similar contract with some noble at home.' For the 

 nine and a half months he was absent from England, Henry spent 

 something like $330,000, of which he provided about $62,500, and his 

 father, John of Gaunt, the rest. 



