lings, without
supplying any facts essential to the history of those months of (p. 230)
human suffering. Henry was resolved neither to burn the town, nor
to take it by storm; but to reduce it by starvation. At length his
feelings overpowered this resolution, and he received the town upon
conditions, on the 19th January 1419.[177] Thus was Rouen subdued to
the Crown of England, two hundred and fifteen years after the conquest
of it by Philip of France in the reign of King John. Stowe tells us,
that to relieve this oppressed city Henry ordained it to be the chief
chamber of all Normandy; and directed his exchequer, his treasury, and
his coinage to be kept there. We have already seen that he caused his
vast treasures before kept in Harfleur to be brought to Rouen.

[Footnote 174: In a very long minute of the Privy
Council, the reasons assigned by Henry for wishing
to negociate an alliance with the Dauphin are given
at length; and ambassadors were appointed to treat
with that prince on the 26th of October
1418.--Foed. ix. p. 626.]

[Footnote 175: The Author, assisted by his friends,
has made diligent inquiry, both in England and on
the Continent, for a portrait of Katharine, with a
copy of which he was desirous of enriching this
volume; but his inquiries have ended in an
assurance that no portrait of her is in existence.]

[Footnote 176: Large cargoes of provisions of every
kind were forwarded from England; among others,
"stock fish and salmon" are enumerated in the Pell
Rolls, 3rd July 1419.]

[Footnote 177: Monstrelet says, that when Henry
made his entry into Rouen, he was followed by a
page mounted on a black horse, bearing a lance, at
the end of which near the point was fastened a
fox's brush by way of streamer, which afforded
great matter of remark. Elmham and Stowe give the
explanation of this. In 1414, he kept his Lent in
the castle of Kenilworth, and caused an arbour to
be planted there in the marsh for his pleasure,
among t