Charles, informed of these conditions, determined to make an attempt for saving the place.

He collected, with some difficulty, an army of fourteen thousand men, of whom one half were Scots; and he sent them thither under the command of the earl of Buchan, constable of France; who was attended by the earl of Douglas, his countryman, the duke of Alencon, the mareschal de la Fayette, the count of Aumale, and the viscount of Narbonne.

When the constable arrived within a few leagues of Yvri, he found that he was come too late, and that the place was already surrendered.

He immediately turned to the left, and sat down before Verneuil, which the inhabitants, in spite of the garrison, delivered up to him.[*] Buchan might now have returned in safety, and with the glory of making an acquisition no less important than the place which he was sent to relieve: but hearing of Bedford's approach, he called a council of war, in order to deliberate concerning the conduct which he should hold in this emergence.
* Monstrelet, vol.ii.p.

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