209 _et seq._] On that day there were grand and solemn processions and a good friar[1117] preached.

Clerks, nobles, captains, magistrates, men-at-arms and citizens devoutly went to church and the people cried: "Noel!"[1118] [Footnote 1117: _Ibid._, p.216._Chronique de la fete_, in _Trial_, vol.v, p.

295.] [Footnote 1118: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.110._Journal du siege_, p.

92.] Thus, on the 8th of May, in the morning, was the town of Orleans delivered, two hundred and nine days after the siege had been laid and nine days after the coming of the Maid..