After the departure of the English they performed a huge and arduous task.

Concluding, and rightly, that the enemy would return not through La Sologne this time, but through La Beauce, they destroyed all their suburbs on the west, north, and east, as they had already destroyed or begun to destroy Le Portereau.

They burned and pulled down twenty-two churches and monasteries, among others the church of Saint-Aignan and its monastery, so beautiful that it was a pity to see it spoiled, the church of Saint Euverte, the church of Saint-Laurent-des-Orgerils, not without promising the blessed patrons of the town that when they should have delivered the city from the English, the citizens would build them new and more beautiful churches.[530] [Footnote 530: _Journal du siege_, p.19._Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.270.Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol.i, p.61.Le P.Denifle, _La desolation des eglises de France_, petition C.] On the 30th of November Captain Glasdale beheld Sir John Talbot approaching Les Tourelles.

He brought three hundred men furnished with cannon, mortars, and other engines of war.

Thenceforward the bombardment was resumed more violently than before: roofs were broken through, walls were battered, but there was more noise than work.