old, was keenly alive to all that passed on that November fifth, 1464.
Morvilliers used very bitter terms in his assertion that Charles had
illegally stopped a little French ship of war and arrested a certain
bastard of Rubempré on the false charge that his errand in Holland,
where the incident occurred, was to seize and carry off Charles
himself. Moreover, one knight of Burgundy, Sir Olivier de La Marche
had caused this tale to be bruited everywhere,

"especially at Bruges whither strangers of all nations resort.
This had hurt Louis deeply, and he now demanded through his
chancellor that Duke Philip should send this same Sir Olivier de
La Marche prisoner to Paris, there to be punished as the case
required. Whereupon, Duke Philip answered that the said Sir
Olivier was steward of his house, born in the County of Burgundy
and in no respect subject to the Crown of France."

Philip added that if his servant had wrought ill to the king's honour
he, the duke, would see to his punishment. As to the bastard of
Rubempré, true it was that he had been apprehended in Holland,[5] but
there was adequate ground for his arrest as his behaviour had been
strange, at least so thought the Count of Charolais. Philip added that
if his son were suspicious

"he took it not of him for he was never so, but of his mother
who had been the most jealous lady that ever lived. But
notwithstanding" [quoth he] "that myself never were supicious, yet
if I had been in my son's place at the same time that this bastard
of Rubempré haunted those coasts I would surely have caused him to
be apprehended as my son did."