but that the Duke of Somerset & all hys band departyd well beseyn out of Brugys a day befor that my Lady the Duchess cam thedyr & they sey her that he is to Queen Margaret that was & shal no more come her agen nor be holpyn by the Duke.  No more; but I beseche you of your blessyng as lowly as I can, wyche I beseche you forget not to geve me everday onys.  And, Modyr, I beseche you that ye wol be good mastras to my lytyll man & to se that he go to scole.

* * * * *

Wreten at Bruggys the Friday next after Seynt Thomas.

“Your sone & humbyll servaunt,

“J.  PASTON THE YOUNGER.”

[Footnote 1:  Chastellain, v., 570.]

[Footnote 2:  V., 576.]

[Footnote 3:  This deputation was composed of representatives from “all the city in its entirety in three chief members—­the bourgeois and nobles, the fifty-two metiers, and the weavers who possess twelve different places in the city entirely for themselves and in their control.”  The formal apology was made later. (Chastellain, v., 291.)]

[Footnote 4:  Ibid 306.  By letters patent given on July 28, 1467, Duke Charles pardoned the Ghenters and confirmed the privileges which he had conceded to them, but he exacted that a deputation from the three members [Trois membres] of the city should come to Brussels to beg pardon on their knees, bareheaded, ungirded, for all the disorder of St. Lievin.  This act of submission took place probably not until January, 1469, though August 8, 1468, is also mentioned as the date.]

[Footnote 5:  Hist, de l’Ordre, etc., p. 511.]

[Footnote 6:  Chastellain, V., 342.]

[Footnote 7:  III., 101.  Evidently this was composed for a separate work and then incorporated into the memoirs.]

[Footnote 8:  There is a beautiful portrait of her in MS. 9275 in the Bibliotheque de Burgogne. See also Wavrin, Anchiennes Croniques d’Engleterre, ii., 368.]

[Footnote 9:  III., 108.]

[Footnote 10:  The Paston Letters, ii., 317.]

CHAPTER XI

THE MEETING AT PERONNE

1468

    “My brother, I beseech you in the name of our affection and of
    our alliance, come to my aid, come as speedily as you can, come
    without delay.  Written by the own hand of your brother.

    “FRANCIS.”

Such were the concluding sentences of a fervent appeal from the Duke of Brittany that followed Charles into Holland, whither he had hastened after the completion of the nuptial festivities.

The titular Duke of Normandy found that his royal brother was in no wise inclined to fulfil the solemn pledges made at Conflans.  His ally, Francis, Duke of Brittany, was plunged into terror lest the king should invade his duchy and punish him for his share in the proceedings that had led up to that compact.