cains_, Vanves, 1893, pp. 49, 51. S. Luce, _Jeanne
d'Arc a Domremy_, pp. cclxxviii _et seq._ F. Perot, _Jeanne d'Arc en
Bourbonnais_, Orleans, in 8vo, 26 pp., 1889. F. Andre, _La verite sur
Jeanne d'Arc_, in 8vo, 1895, pp. 308 _et seq._]

From this town of Moulins, Jeanne dictated a letter by which she
informed the inhabitants of Riom that Saint-Pierre-le-Moustier was
taken, and asked them for materials of war as she had asked the folk
of Clermont.[1869]

[Footnote 1869: _Trial_, vol. v, pp. 146-148.]

Here is the letter:

Good friends and beloved, ye wit how that the town of Saint
Pere le Moustier hath been taken by storm; and with God's
help it is our intention to cause to be evacuated the other
places contrary to the King; but for this there hath been
great expending of powder, arrows and other munition of war
before the said town, and the lords who are in this town are
but scantily provided for to go and lay siege to La Charite,
whither we wend presently; I pray you as ye love the welfare
and honour of the King and likewise of all others here, that
ye will straightway help and send for the said siege powder,
saltpetre, sulphur, arrows, strong cross-bows and other
munition of war. And do this lest by failure of the said
powder and other habiliments of war, the siege should be
long and ye should be called in this matter negligent or
unwilling. Good friends and beloved, may our Lord keep you.
Written at Molins, the ninth day of November.

Jehanne.

Addressed to: My good friends and beloved, the churchmen,
burgesses and townsfolk of the town of Rion.[1870]

[Footnote 1870: _Ibid._, pp. 146, 148. Facsimile in _Le Musee des
archives departementales_, p. 124.]

The magistrates of Riom, in letters sealed with their own seal,
undertook to give Jeanne the Maid and my Lord d'Albret the sum of
sixty crowns; but when the masters of the siege-artillery came to
demand this sum, the magistrates would not give a farthing.[1871]

[Footnote 1871: F. Perot (_Bulletin de la Societe archeologique de
l'Orleanais_, vol. xii, p. 231).]

The folk of Orleans, on the other hand, once more appeared both
zealous and munificent; for they eagerly desired the reduction of a
town commanding the Loire for seventy-five miles above their own city.
They deserve to be considered the true deliverers of the kingdom; had
it not been for them neither