77.] Nevertheless, the use made of her by the King's men proved that, following the counsel of the theologians, they were determined to adopt only such methods as were prompted by human prudence.

She was to enter the town with a convoy of victuals, then being prepared at Blois by order of the King assisted by the Queen of Sicily.[865] In all the loyal provinces a new effort was being made for the relief and deliverance of the brave city.

Gien, Bourges, Blois, Chateaudun, Tours sent men and victuals; Angers, Poitiers, La Rochelle, Albi, Moulins, Montpellier, Clermont sulphur, saltpetre, steel, and arms.[866] And if the citizens of Toulouse gave nothing it was because their city, as the notables consulted by the _capitouls_[867] ingenuously declared, had nothing to give--_non habebat de quibus_.[868] [Footnote 865: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.93._Geste des nobles_, in _La chronique de la Pucelle_, p.250.The Accounts of fortresses (1428-1430), in Boucher de Molandon, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc_, pp.

30 _et seq._] [Footnote 866: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.287._Journal du siege_, p.81.Boucher de Molandon, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc_, pp.
28, 29.

P.Mantellier, _Histoire du siege_, p.