and the exercise of great valour. "After my
death," said he, "they will know that they have had a good lord, for they
all wish to be masters, and to have none set over them, wherefore it
shall be ill with them." And he prophesied truly, for the whole land of
Utrecht suffered grievous loss for her sedition, and shall long mourn the
same, as will be shown briefly in the proper place.

So this illustrious ruler died in his castle that is called Horst, not
far from Utrecht, and his body was brought by a seemly train of followers
to the church at Utrecht where his predecessors were buried, and there in
company with the other bishops in an honoured tomb upon the right side of
the choir he doth rest in peace.

CHAPTER XIX.

Of the death of Brother John Vos of Huesden, who was the second Prior at
Windesem.

In the year of the Lord 1424, on the Saturday following the Feast of St.
Andrew, being the second of December, the venerable Father John Huesden,
who was the second Prior of Windesem, died in the sixty-first year of his
age. He had been a disciple of Master Gerard Groote and Father
Florentius, Vicar of Deventer, and on the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, in
the year following the investiture of the first Brothers, he himself was
invested there together with Henry Balveren. A short time after Brother
Werner, the first Prior, was absolved from his office, this John Huesden
was chosen the second Prior of the House, being then in the twenty-eighth
year of his age. By the help of God he continued as Prior for thirty-
three years and ruled the House in a laudable manner: also he was of much
profit to the whole Order, being a most comfortable and kindly Father to
all the devout Brothers and Sisters that were in the whole Diocese, for
he was charitably disposed to all alike. He ordered the writing of many
books for the monastery, being a fervent lover of the holy writings, and
was specially devoted to our Father Saint Augustine, a store of whose
books he collected diligently. He was also at Constance in the days of
the General Council, whither he went in company with John Wale, the
venerable Prior of Zwolle, and the cardinals and other prelates received
them both kindly and with reverence.

Now it came to pass a few days before his death, and within the Octave of
St. Martin the Bishop, that two Brothers came from Mount St. Agnes to
Windesem to commune with the Prior. And one of them had a dream after
this wise, which visio