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 592 APPENDIX B Nicolas appears to have searched the "Wardrobe Accounts very care- fully; it is surprising therefore to find him contradict himself in his statements as to the earliest distribution of robes to ladies. In vol. ii (p. 485) he says: — "The earhest existing record of the Livery or Habit of the Order having been given to Ladies was for the Feast of St. George in 1379;" yet in his Appendix he begins the list with The Lady Isabel [Countess of Bedford] in I375,(^) and names her again [as Countess of Bedford] under the years 1376, 1377, and prints the list of names here given under the year 1378. It should be noted that these entries on the Wardrobe Accounts often end with the words " and divers other ladies." It is probable therefore that some of the ladies received^ robes with greater frequency than appears In this hst. 1376. The Countess of Bedford. Isabel, wife of Enguerrand de Coucy, cr. Earl of Bedford. She had robes again 1377, 1379 1378. The King's Mother. Joan, widow of Edward, Prince of Wales, and mother of Richard II. She had robes again 1379, 1384, 1385 The Queen of Spain, Duchess of Lancaster. Constance, wife of John of Gant, Duke of Lancaster, styled King of Castile and Leon. She had robes again 1379, 1381, 1382 to 1390 (in 1390 as Duchess of Aquitaine), and 1393, 1394 The Duchess of Brittany and The Lady de Courtenay, the King's Sisters, i.e. (i) Joan, uterine sister of Richard II, and 2nd wife of Jean IV, Duke of Brittany. She had robes again 1379. (2) Maud, uterine sister of Richard II, and widow of Hugh [5/>7ifi2' Lord] Courtenay. She had robes again 1379 The Two Daughters of the Duke of Lancaster i.e. Philippe, m. Joao I, King of Portugal. She had robes again in 1379, 1381 to 1386, 1399, 1401, 1408 to 1411, Hiec) Elizabeth, m. istly John (Hastings), Earl of Pembroke, and 2ndly, John Holand, later Earl of Huntingdon and Duke of Exeter. She had robes again in 1379, 138 1, I384,('=) 1385,1386, 1389, 1390, i399> 1401, 1405, 1408 to 141 1, 1413,1416, 142 1 The Countess of Oxford. Phihppe, wife of Robert (de Veer), Earl of Oxford, later Marquess of Dublin and Duke of Ireland. She had robes again in 1379, 1381, 1384, 1385, 1387, I399> 1401, 1405, 1408, 1409 (^) No evidence has been found on the Wardrobe Accounts of livery of robes to "The Lady Isabel" in this year, though Nicolas states that he saw it 10 Aug. 1841. (•>) She d. of the plague, 18 July 141 5, in Spain, while on a journey. Presum- ably the Keeper of the Wardrobe was unaware of her death. (<=) Beltz identifies her as Anne {d. 1384), da. of Walter [Lord] Mauny, and 2nd wife of John (Hastings), Earl of Pembroke, the elder. It seems more probable