87.] [Footnote 1091: Letter from Charles VII to the inhabitants of Narbonne, 10 May, 1429, in _Trial_, vol.v, p.103.Monstrelet, in _Trial_, vol.iv, p.

365.] [Footnote 1092: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

110 (Pasquerel's evidence).] At the same time, from the walls of the town and the bulwark of La Belle Croix cannon balls rained down upon Les Tourelles.[1093] Montargis and Rifflart cast forth stones.

Maitre Guillaume Duisy's new cannon, from the Chesneau postern, hurled forth balls weighing one hundred and twenty pounds.[1094] Les Tourelles were attacked from the bridge side.

Across the arch broken by the English a narrow footway was thrown, and Messire Nicole de Giresme, a knight in holy orders, was the first to pass over.[1095] Those who followed him set fire to the palisade which blocked the approach to the fort on that side.