Some returned to England, others roamed through the realm of France robbing and plundering.

That very 12th of October orders had been despatched from Rouen to the Bailies and Governors of Normandy to arrest those English who had departed from the company of my Lord, the Earl of Salisbury.[512] [Footnote 512: L.Jarry, _Le compte de l'armee anglaise_, p.

61.] The fort of Les Tourelles and its outworks barred the entrance to the bridge.

The English established themselves in Le Portereau, placed their cannon and their mortars on the rising ground of Saint-Jean-le-Blanc,[513] and, on the following Sunday, they hurled down upon the city a shower of stone cannon-balls, which did great damage to the houses, but killed no one save a woman of Orleans, named Belles, who dwelt near the Chesneau postern on the river bank.

Thus the siege, which was to be ended by a woman's victory, began with a woman's death.
[Footnote 513: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.258.Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, p.66.Jean Raoulet in Chartier, _Chronique_, vol.iii, p.198._Journal du siege_, pp.