Amid the hubbub of bustling servants and cooks and pages and understewards crowded into the bowels of the palace, the two newest members of the domestic staff were able to escape notice not only by the harried steward, but also by the guards from the yard, who were still conducting a frantic search

a semiprecious stone or gem

She tried to make this sound hipsterishly arch and mocking, but she wanted to know.

On the Spuy is a good Dutch Inn, called the Hoff van Utrecht. The Price is a Gilder a Day, or a Shilling for the Dinner only.