42.] [Footnote 836: The hospital of Orleans, close to the cathedral.] [Footnote 837: 9 March.

_Journal du siege_, pp.

56, 57.] [Footnote 838: _Journal du siege_, p.

64.] In the beginning of March the besiegers saw approaching the Norman vassals, summoned by the Regent.

But they were only six hundred and twenty-nine lances all told, and they were only bound to serve for twenty-six days.