hem." Henry V. was
unwilling to confront such heroic despair; and on the 13th of January,
1419, he granted the Rouennese a capitulation, from which seven persons
only were excepted, Robert Delivet, the archbishop's vicar-general, who
from the top of the ramparts had excommunicated the foreign conqueror;
D'Houdetot, baillie of the city; John Segneult, the mayor; Alan
Blanchard, the captain of the militia-crossbowmen, and three other
burgesses. The last-named, the hero of the siege, was the only one who
paid for his heroism with his life; the baillie, the mayor, and the vicar
bought themselves off. On the 19th of January, at midday, the English,
king and army, made their solemn entry into the city. It was two hundred
and fifteen years since Philip Augustus had won Rouen by conquest from
John Lackland, King of England; and happily his successors were not to be
condemned to deplore the loss of it very long.

These successes of the King of England were so many reverses and perils
for the Count of Armagnac. He had in his hands Paris, the king, and the
_dauphin_; in the people's eyes the responsibility of government and of
events rested on his shoulders; and at one time he was doing nothing,
at another he was unsuccessful in what he did. Whilst Henry V. was
becoming master of nearly all the towns of Normandy, the constable, with
the king in his army, was besieging Senlis; and he was obliged to raise
the siege. The legates of Pope Martin V. had set about establishing
peace between the Burgundians and Armagnacs, as well as between France
and England; they had prepared, on the basis of the treaty of Arras, a
new treaty, with which a great part of the country, and even of the
burgesses of Paris, showed themselves well pleased; but the constable had
it rejected on the ground of its being adverse to the interests of the
king and of France; and his friend, the chancellor, Henry de Marle,
declared that, if the king were disposed to sign it, he would have to
seal it himself, for that, as for him, the chancellor, he certainly would
not seal it. Bernard of Armagnac and his confidential friend, Tanneguy
Duchatel, a Breton nobleman, provost of Paris, were hard and haughty.
When a complaint was made to them of any violent procedure, they would
answer, "What business had you there? If it were the Burgundians, you
would make no complaint." The Parisian population was becoming every day
more Burgundian. In the latter days of May. 14