Abbe Dubois, _Histoire du siege_, dissertation ix.

Lottin, _Recherches_, vol.i, p.205.Loiseleur, _Comptes des depenses_, ch.

vii.] [Footnote 1002: On the 4th of May, as on the 29th of April, the corn was brought down the Loire.

Indeed there exists a bill which makes mention of "sailors who brought the corn which came from Blois on the 4th day of May," "_nottoniers qui amenerent les bles qui furent amenes de Blois le iiij'e jour de may_" (Boucher de Molandon, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc_, pp.

58, 59).] Captain La Hire and certain other commanders, who had remained in the city with five hundred fighting men, went out to meet the Sire de Rais, the Marshal de Boussac and the Bastard.