"Monsieur du Bouchage, Guillaume de Thouars has told me that Messire Olivier de la Marche is willing to enter my service and I am afraid that there may be some deception. However, there is nothing that I would like better than to have the said Sieur de Cimay, as you know. Therefore, pray find out how the matter stands, and if you see that it is in good earnest work for it with all diligence. Whatever you pledge I will hold to. Advise me of everything.
"Written at Cléry, October 16th [1472].
"To our beloved and faithful councillor and chancellor,
Sire du Bouchage."[40]
But La Marche was not tempted, and was rewarded for his fidelity by high office in a duchy which, shortly after these events, was "annexed" to his master's domain.
[Footnote 1:] [Journal] de Jean de Roye, i., 258.]
[Footnote 2:] [Commynes]-Dupont, iii., 202.]
[Footnote 3:] [Plancher], iv., cccvi., May 28th.]
[Footnote 4:] [Rymer], Fœdera, xi., 735. Pro Ducissa Burgundiæ super Lana claccanda.]
[Footnote 5:] [Lettres] de Louis XI., iv., 256.]