Every day there were manufactured in thousands, arrows, darts, stacks of bolts,[494] armed with iron points and feathered with parchment, numbers of _pavas_, great shields made of pieces of wood mortised one into the other and covered with leather.

Corn, wine, and cattle were purchased in great quantities both for the inhabitants and the men-at-arms, the King's men, and adventurers who were expected.[495] [Footnote 493: Jollois, _Histoire du siege_, p.6.

Lottin, _Recherches_, vol.i, pp.

202-205.] [Footnote 494: An arrow shot from the long-bow, the feathers of the arrow were spirally arranged to produce a spinning movement in its flight (W.S.).] [Footnote 495: The accounts of the fortresses, in _Journal du siege_, pp.

301 _et seq._ Jollois, _Histoire du siege_, p.12.