participation in the treaty. Her fate remained uncertain for months.
Other affairs occupied the Count of Charolais until late in the summer
of 1466. Time had quickly proven that Louis, well freed from the
allies pressing up to the gates of Paris, was in very different temper
from Louis ill at ease under their strenuous demands. Not only had
he withdrawn his promises in regard to the duchy conferred on his
brother, but he had begun taking other measures, ostensibly to prepare
against a possible English invasion, which alarmed his cousin of
Burgundy for the undisturbed possession of his recently recovered
towns on the Somme.

Excited by the rumours of Louis's purposes, Charles despatched the
following letter from Namur:[12]

"MONSEIGNEUR:

"I recommend myself very humbly to your good grace and beg to
inform you, Monseigneur, that recently I have been advised of
something very surprising to me, Moreover, I am now put beyond
doubt considering the source of my information. It is with much
regret that I communicate it to you when I remember all the good
words you have given to me this year, orally and in writing.
Monseigneur, it is evident that there has been some agreement
between your people and the English, and that the matter has been
so well worked that you have consented, as I have heard, to yield
them the land of Caux, Rouen, and the connecting villages, and to
aid them in withholding Abbeville and the county of Ponthieu, and
further, to cement with them certain alliances against me and my
country in making them large offers greatly to my prejudice and,
in order to complete the whole, they are to come to Dieppe.

"Monseigneur, you may dispose of your own as you wish: but,
Monseigneur, in regard to what concerns me, it seems to me that
you would do better to leave my property in my hand than to be the
instrument of putting it into the hands of the English or of any
foreign nation. For this reason I entreat you, Monseigneur, that
if such overtures or greater ones have been opened by your people
that you will not commit yourself to them in any manner but will
insist on their cessation, and that you will do this in a way that
I may always have cause to remain your very humble servant as I
desire to do with all my heart. Above all, write to me your good
pleasure, and I implore you, Monseigneur, if there be any servi