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The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2)

CHAPTER XV
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The magistrate, Jean Boilleve, brought bread and wine in a barge.[1262] Throughout Friday, the 7th, mortars and cannon hurled stones on the besieged.

At the same time from the valley and from the river the attack was being made from barges.

On the 17th of June, at midnight, Sir Richard Gethyn, Bailie of Evreux, who commanded the garrison, offered to capitulate.

It was agreed that the English should surrender the castle and bridge, and depart on the morrow, taking with them horses and harness with each man his property to the value of not more than one silver mark.

Further, they were required to swear that they would not take up arms again before the expiration of ten days.
On these terms, the next day, at sunrise, to the number of five hundred, they crossed the drawbridge and retreated on Meung, where the castle, but not the bridge, remained in the hands of the English.[1263] The Constable wisely sent a few men to reinforce the garrison on the Meung Bridge.[1264] Sir Richard Gethyn and Captain Matthew Gough were detained as hostages.[1265] [Footnote 1261: _Journal du siege_, p.97._Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.


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