Those of Auxerre demanded a truce, offering provisions, and promising to do as those of Troyes, Chalons, and Rheims should do.

At Troyes the difficulty was greater still.

There was in it a garrison of five or six hundred English and Burgundians, who had the burgesses under their thumbs.

All attempts at accommodation failed.

There was great perplexity in the royal camp; there were neither provisions enough for a long stay before Troyes, nor batteries and siege trains to carry it by force.