10, 12.

_Cronique Martiniane_, p.8._Le jouvencel_, p.277.Loiseleur, _Comptes des depenses_, pp.
90, 91.] After the death of its chief, Salisbury's army was paralysed by disunion and diminished by desertions.

Winter was coming: the captains, seeing there was nothing to be done for the present, broke up their camp, and, with such men as remained to them, went off to shelter behind the walls of Meung and Jargeau.[527] On the evening of the 8th of November all that remained before the city was the garrison of Les Tourelles, consisting of five hundred Norman horse, commanded by William Molyns and William Glasdale.

The French might besiege and take them: they would not budge.

The Governor, the old Sire de Gaucourt, had just fallen on the pavement in La Rue des Hotelleries and broken his arm; he couldn't move.[528] But what about the rest of the defenders?
[Footnote 527: _Journal du siege_, pp.