31, 106.] [Footnote 878: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

74.] [Footnote 879: Jeanne says (in her _Trial_) from 10,000 to 12,000 men; Monstrelet says, 7000; Eberhard Windecke, 3000; Morosini, 12,000.] [Footnote 880: "_Car vous ne trouverez nulz marchans qu'ils se mettent en ceste peine ne en ce danger, s'ilz n'ont l'argent contant._" ("For you will find no merchants who will take that trouble, and run that risk, unless they are paid ready money.") _Le Jouvencel_, vol.i, p.
184.] In the month of March, Jeanne had dictated to one of the doctors at Poitiers a brief manifesto intended for the English.[881] She expanded it into a letter, which she showed to certain of her companions and afterwards sent by a Herald from Blois to the camp of Saint-Laurent-des-Orgerils.
This letter was addressed to King Henry, to the Regent and to the three chiefs, who, since Salisbury's death, had been conducting the siege, Scales, Suffolk, and Talbot.

The following is the text of it:[882] [Footnote 881: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

74.] [Footnote 882: There are eight ancient texts of this letter: (1) the text used in the Rouen trial (_Trial_, i, p.

240); (2) a text probably written by a Knight of the Order of St.John of Jerusalem; the original document has been lost, but there are two copies dating from the 18th century (_Ibid._, v, p.