They were aware both of the cause of their sorrows and of the means of remedying them.

Such was the teaching of the good friars preachers; and, as Duke Charles put it in his ballad, the remedy was to live well, to amend one's life, to have masses said and sung for the souls of those who had suffered death in the service of the realm, to renounce the sinful life, and to ask forgiveness of Our Lady and the saints.[856] This remedy had been adopted by the people of Orleans.

They had had masses said in the Church of Sainte-Croix for the souls of nobles, captains, and men-at-arms killed in their service, and especially for those who had died a piteous death in the Battle of the Herrings.

They had offered candles to Our Lady and to the patron saints of the town, and had carried the shrine of Saint-Aignan round the walls.[857] [Footnote 855: Charles d'Orleans, _Poesies_, edited by A.
Champollion-Figeac, Paris, 1842, in 8vo, p.

176.] [Footnote 856: Miniature in the MS.