301-302.

Perceval de Cagny, pp.
150-151.] The wall was scaled and the French King's men penetrated into the town.

The English fled into La Beauce and the French rushed in pursuit of them.

Guillaume Regnault, a squire of Auvergne, came up with the Earl of Suffolk on the bridge and took him prisoner.
"Are you a gentleman ?" asked Suffolk.
"Yes." "Are you a knight ?" "No." The Earl of Suffolk dubbed him a knight and surrendered to him.[1215] [Footnote 1215: _Journal du siege_, p.99._Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.302.Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol.i, p.82.Berry, in _Trial_, vol.iv, p.

65.] Very soon the rumour ran that the Earl of Suffolk had surrendered on his knees to the Maid.[1216] It was even stated that he had asked to surrender to her as to the bravest lady in the world.[1217] But it is more likely that he would have surrendered to the lowest menial of the army rather than to a woman whom he held to be a witch possessed of the devil.
[Footnote 1216: Fragment of a letter concerning the wonders which happened in Poitou, in _Trial_, vol.v, p.