After a night of fatigue and anxiety, they had just heard tidings which exasperated them.

They had heard tell that the captains wanted to defer the storming of Les Tourelles.

With loud cries they appealed to the Maid to help the townsfolk, sold, abandoned, and betrayed.[1057] The truth was that my Lord the Bastard and the captains, having observed during the night a great movement among the English on the upper Loire, were confirmed in their fears that Talbot would attack the walls near the Renard Gate while the French were occupied on the left bank.

At sunrise they had perceived that during the night the English had demolished their outwork Saint Prive, south of l'Ile-Charlemagne.[1058] That also caused them to believe firmly that in the evening the English had concentrated in the Saint-Laurent camp and the bastion, London.

The townsfolk had long been irritated by the delay of the King's men in raising the siege.