On this they all fell a-weeping and crying out so bitterly that no heart in the world, however hard, could have seen and heard them without pity.

Even John de Vienne shed tears.

Then rose up to his feet the richest burgher of the town, Eustace de St.Pierre, who, at the former council, had been for capitulation.

"Sir," said he, "it would be great pity to leave this people to die, by famine or otherwise, when any remedy can be found against it; and he who should keep them from such a mishap would find great favor in the eyes of our Lord.

I have great hope to find favor in the eyes of our Lord if I die to save this people; I would fain be the first herein, and I will willingly place myself in my shirt and bare-headed and with a rope round my neck, at the mercy of the King of England." At this speech, men and women cast themselves at the feet of Eustace de St.Pierre, weeping piteously.