51.] [Footnote 563: 16 March.

_Ibid._, p.

59.] [Footnote 564: Thaumas de la Thaumassiere, _Histoire du Berry_, Bourges, 1689, in fol., pp.

648-656.] Believing that they were betrayed and abandoned, the citizens bethought them of securing their own safety.

Since the King was not able to protect them, they resolved that in order to escape from the English, they would give themselves to one more powerful than he.
Therefore, to Lord Philip, Duke of Burgundy, they despatched Captain Poton of Saintrailles, who was known to him because he had been his prisoner, and two magistrates of the city, Jean de Saint-Avy and Guion du Fosse.