They are of the common folk and labourers, but among them are many rich burgesses.

They have banded themselves together by an oath to take our part, within the town, if once we win a gate.

Here is a cedule signed by them with their names or marks, and this he gave me as a proof of good faith." Here he handed a long slip of parchment, all covered with writing, to Randal, and it went round among us, but few there were clerks, save myself.

I looked on it, and the names, many of them attested by seals with coat armour, were plain to be read.
"Their counsel is to muster in arms secretly, and to convey themselves, one by one, into certain houses hard by the Port St.Denis, where certain of their party dwell.

Now, very early to-morrow morning, before dawn, the purpose of the English is to send forth a company of a hundred men-at- arms, who will make a sudden onset on the windmill, where the Maid lies to-night, and so will take her, if they may." "By St.Bride of Douglas," said one of us, "they will get their kail through the reek, for our guard is to lie in arms about the windmill, and be first in the field to-morrow." "The craft is, then," Father Urquhart went on, "that we shall destroy this English company with sword or arrow, but with no alarm of culverins or cannon.