CHAPTER XIV.
_Of the first investiture of the Sisters of our Order in Diepenvene near Deventer_ In the year 1408, on the Feast of St.Agnes the Virgin, the Sisters of the Order of Canons Regular in Diepenvene near Deventer were first invested.

This investiture was done by Brother John Huesden, the venerable Prior of Windesem; and there were present also the Prior of the House of the Fount of the Blessed Virgin near Arnheim, Brother John of Kempen, Prior of Mount St.Agnes, and many other devout persons, both men and women, who came together eagerly to be present on so notable a day.
So then there was great joy for the heavenly marriage of many devout matrons and virgins; but the sound of much weeping ascended to heaven also.

The number of them who took on them the habit and the order that followeth the rule of the Blessed Augustine the Bishop was forty-three, and of these three first made their profession the same day, but the others remained Novices for a year.

Many of these Sisters were gathered and brought from Deventer from the house of Master Gerard Groote, after that the numbers there began to be increased, and John Brincerinck governed and guided them for a great while..