On hearing his words the Sire de Giac said to the King: "If my advice were taken, Comberel would be thrown into the river with the others of his opinion." Whereupon the men from the good towns voted two hundred and sixty thousand livres.[592] In September, 1427, assembled at Chinon, they granted five hundred thousand livres for the war.[593] By writs issued on the 8th of January, 1428, the King summoned the States General to meet six months hence, on the following 18th of July, at Tours.[594] On the 18th of July no one attended.

On the 22nd of July came a new summons from the King, commanding the Estates to meet at Tours on the 10th of September.[595] But the meeting did not take place until October, at Chinon, just when the Earl of Salisbury was marching on the Loire.

The States granted five hundred thousand livres.[596] [Footnote 591: _Le jouvencel_, vol.i, Introduction, pp.

xix, xx.] [Footnote 592: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.237.Loiseleur, _Compte des depenses_, p.61.Vallet de Viriville, _Memoire sur les institutions de Charles VII_, in _Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes_, vol.xxxiii, p.

37.] [Footnote 593: Dom Vaissette, _Histoire du Languedoc_, vol.iv, p.
471.] [Footnote 594: De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol.ii, p.
167.] [Footnote 595: Dom Vaissette, _Histoire du Languedoc_, vol.iv, p.
471.