broke out into civil war. Having found refuge, after many dangers and suffering, at the court of Burgundy, she told Chastellain the story of her adventures: how she had been forced to commit herself and her young son to the mercy of a robber, how at mass she had to ask a Scotch archer a penny for her offering, “who reluctantly and with regret took a groat scots for her out of his purse and lent it her.” The good historiographer, moved by so much misfortune, dedicated to her “a certain little treatise