ial_, vol. iii, pp. 13, 14, 117. Jean Chartier,
_Chronique_, vol. i, p. 96. _Journal du siege_, p. 111. _Chronique de
la Pucelle_, p. 78. De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol. ii,
p. 225.]

[Footnote 1449: Th. Boutiot, _Histoire de la ville de Troyes_, vol.
ii, p. 497, note. A. Assier, _Une cite champenoise au XV'e siecle_,
Paris, 1875, in 8vo, p. 26.]

[Footnote 1450: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 117. (De Gaucourt's evidence.)]

This threat had the desired effect. The lower orders, imagining the
town already taken, and expecting the French to come to pillage,
massacre and ravish, as was the custom, took refuge in the churches.
As for the clerics and notables, this was just what they wanted.[1451]

[Footnote 1451: _Ibid._, p. 117. Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i,
p. 96. J. Rogier, in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 296.]

Being assured by Charles of Valois that they might come to him in
safety, the Lord Bishop Jean Laiguise, my Lord Guillaume Andouillette,
Master of the Hospital, the Dean of the Chapter, the clergy and the
notables went to the King.[1452]

[Footnote 1452: J. Rogier, in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 295. _Trial_, pp.
13, 14, 17. Chartier, _Journal du siege_, _Chronique de la Pucelle_.
Camusat, _Mel. hist._, part ii, fol. 214.]

Jean Laiguise was the spokesman. He came to do homage to the King and
to offer excuse for the townsfolk.

It is not their fault, he said, if the King enter not according to his
good pleasure. The Bailie and those of the garrison, some three or
four hundred, guard the gates, and forbid their being opened. Let it
please the King to have patience until I have spoken to those of the
town. I trust that as soon as I have spoken to them, they will open
the gates and render the King such obedience as he shall be pleased
withal.[1453]

[Footnote 1453: _Relation du greffier de La Rochelle_, in _Revue
historique_, vol. iv, p. 342. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, _Journal du
siege_, Chartier, _loc. cit._ Gilles de Roye in Chartier, vol. iii, p.
205.]

In replying to the Bishop, the King set forth the reasons for the
expedition and the rights he held over the town of Troyes.

Without exception, he said, I will forgive all the deeds of past
times, and, according to the example of Saint Louis,[1454] I will
maintain the people of Troyes in peace and liberty.

[Footnote 1454: J. Rogier in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 296.]

Jean Laiguise demanded that such revenues and patronage as had been
bestowed on church