drawing up a report of the discussion. When this was presented to the
king it did not seem to him good. He doubted the good faith of the
count's message. He had been assured that it was all a fiction
especially designed by the Sieur de Burgundy.

Certain general promises were made in spite of this royal distrust,
quite natural under the circumstances. If he decided to espouse the
cause of Henry VI., the Count of Charolais should be given a command.
It was evident that the count was by no means ready to go to all
lengths, for St. Pol states in one of his conferences with the "late
king" that Charles of Burgundy had assured him that for two realms
such as his he would not do a deed of villainy.

Nothing came of this talk. It would have been a singular state of
affairs had the heirs of France and Burgundy thus changed places in
their fathers' courts. Spying and counterspying there were between
the courts to a great extent and rumours in number. A certain Italian
writes to the Duke of Milan as follows, on March 23, 1461, after he
had been at Genappe and at Brussels:[17]

"M. de Croy has given me clearly to understand that the
reconciliation of the dauphin with the King of France would not be
with the approval of the Duke of Burgundy. Nevertheless the prince
laments that since he received the dauphin into his states,
and treated him as his future sovereign, he has incurred the
implacable hatred of the king added to his ancient grievances. On
the other hand, the affairs of England, on whose issue depends war
or peace for the duke, being still in suspense, it did not seem to
him honest to make advances to the king at this moment.