204 Chaucer and Henry, Earl of Derby 



136^, Lent, Various Eng-lishmen arrive.^ That Scotchmen 

 were also present can only be inferred from the safe-conducts 

 granted to Thomas, Earl of Mar, and the esquire, David Barclay.^ 



Sir Geoffrey Scrope (ca. 1342-1363). The deposition of Sir 

 Henry Ferrers, taken in 1386,^ testifies 'that he saw . . 

 the said Sir Geoffrey so armed in Prussia, and afterwards in 

 Lithuania before a castle called Piskre, and that he there die4r- 

 and from there his body was brought back into Prussia and 

 interred, in the same arms, in the Cathedral (dom) of Konigs- 

 berg, where they were placed on a tablet, as a memorial, before 

 the altar.' To a similar effect is the deposition* of John Rither, 

 Esq. : 'After that expedition peace was made, when Sir Geoffrey 

 Scrope went, with other knights, into Prussia, and there, in an 

 affair (reise) at the siege (saute) of Wellon in Lithuania, he 

 died in these arms, and was buried in the Cathedral (dom) of 

 Konigsberg, where the said arms are painted in a glass window, 

 which the Deponent himself caused to be set up, taking the 

 blazon from the arms which the deceased had upon him.' More 

 briefly that of Thomas de Boynton^ : 'He saw also Sir Geoffrey 

 Scrope, son and heir of Sir Henry Scrope, interred at Konigs- 

 berg, under the said arms with a difference.' And that of 

 Sir Thomas Fitz Henry®: 'He also said that, when in Prussia, 

 he saw one Sir Geoffrey Scrope buried under those arms with 

 a difference.' 



These five, then, were in Prussia — ^but .when? The deposi- 

 tions do not say, but the year is generally assumed to have 

 been 1362. Against this is the fact that no Englishmen are 

 reported by the Continental chroniclers to have arrived in 1362. 

 Wigand of Marburg, however, does report their presence in 

 1363.' Before the expedition began, a dispute arose between 

 Ulrich of Hanau, a prominent nobleman, and the English, as 

 to who should carry the banner of St. George — a dispute decided 



^ Voigt 5. 164. 



^ Voigt 5. 164 ; Rymer, under Feb. 5 and Feb. 20, 1363. 



^ Scrope and Grosvenor Controversy, ed. Nicolas, 2. 445. 



*Ib. 2. 353- 



'^ lb. 2. 310. 



"" Ih. 2. 321. 



'S. R. P. 2. 544- 



