and, when he returned, iâd a good paffjjQrt given to him. " - ' • ' * - ' ' w ' " '.\ The king and the whole court were much troubled on this matter, when the conftable arrived to* make. his complaints againft the duke of Brittany ;* and" this increafed it, for, it was now apparent, difficult ties were arifing on all fides, and much prudence and good fenfe would be neceflary to meet them. . The • king and his council, notwithftanding this vexation from Gueldres, were unwilling that the conftable, who had fo faithfully ferved the king in . Flanders and elfewhere, fhould not have redrefs for the wrongs he had fuffered from the duke of Brit-tany, by confining his perfon and feizing his caftles and towns without a fhadow of right. The lord de Coucy and the admiral were particularly aMve in' this bufinefs. • - •' We will return to the duke of Lancafter and the king of Portugal, who were carrying on a prof-perdus war in Galicia, and fpeak of their ope* tarions. §64 CHAP.