87/98 63.] [Footnote 558: _Journal du siege_, p. 44.] [Footnote 559: _Ibid._, pp. 43, 44.] Because the Lenten fast was beginning, the victuals which Sir John Fastolf was bringing from Paris to the English round Orleans, consisted largely of red herrings, which had suffered during the battle from the casks containing them having been broken in. To honour the French for having discomfited so many natives of Dieppe the delighted English merrily named the combat the Battle of the Herrings.[560] [Footnote 560: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, pp. 230-233. |