Here, in the last week of the month, the twenty-third chapter of the Golden Fleece was held with much pomp, and with festivities which lasted three days.

The fourteen vacancies which existed were filled with the names of various distinguished personages.

With this last celebration the public history of Philip the Good's ostentatious and ambitious order of knighthood was closed.

The subsequent nominations were made 'ex indultu apostolico', and without the assembling of a chapter.
The estates having duly assembled upon the day prescribed, Philip, attended by Margaret of Parma, the Duke of Savoy, and a stately retinue of ambassadors and grandees, made his appearance before them.

After the customary ceremonies had been performed, the Bishop of Arras arose and delivered, in the name of his sovereign, an elaborate address of instructions and farewells.