44.
Bueil, _Le jouvencel_, introduction.

Royal Pardons, in E.Boutaric, _Institutions militaires de la France avant les armees permanentes...._ 1863, in 8vo, p.266._Recit du prieur de Droillet_, ed.

Quicherat, in _Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes_, fourth series, vol.iii, p.
359.

Mantellier, _Histoire de la communaute des marchands frequentant la riviere de Loire_, vol.i, p.195.Le P.H.Denifle, _La desolation des eglises, monasteres, hopitaux en France, vers le milieu du XV'e siecle_, Macon, in 8vo.] Freebooters in the pay of King Charles, when they pillaged travellers and held them to ransom, did not stay to ask whether they were Armagnacs or Burgundians.

Indeed, it was after their passage of the Loire that Bertrand de Poulengy and his companions found themselves exposed to the greatest danger.
Informed of their approach, certain men-at-arms of the French party went before and lay in ambush, waiting to surprise them.