In like manner, only a few days before Jeanne's coming, they had given the Scot, Kennedy, who was ravaging the district, two hundred livres to go on.

When they had got rid of their defenders, their next care was to fortify themselves against the English.

On the 29th of February of this same year, 1429, these citizens lent one hundred crowns to Captain La Hire, who was then doing his best for Orleans.

And even on the approach of the English they consented to receive forty archers belonging to the company of the Sire de Bueil, only on condition that Bueil should lodge in the castle with twenty men, and that the others should be quartered in the inns, where they were to have nothing without paying for it.

Thus it was or was not; and the Sire de Bueil went off to defend Orleans.[804] [Footnote 801: De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol.ii, p.
77.] [Footnote 802: Vallet de Viriville, _Analyse et fragments tires des Archives municipales de Tours_ in _Cabinet historique_, vol.v, pp.
102-121.] [Footnote 803: Quicherat, _Rodrigue de Villandrando_, Paris, 1879, in 8vo, pp.