e de Compiegne_, in _La Picardie_, vol.
iii, 1857, pp. 22, 23. Stevenson, _Letters and Papers_, vol. ii, part
i, p. 156.]

[Footnote 2114: Monstrelet, vol. iv, p. 419. P. Champion, _Guillaume de
Flavy_, p. 57.]

[Footnote 2115: Sorel, _La prise de Jeanne d'Arc_, proofs and
illustrations, p. 343.]

The Lord Treasurer of Normandy raised aids to the amount of eighty
thousand _livres tournois_, ten thousand of which were to be devoted
to the purchase of Jeanne. The Count Bishop of Beauvais, who was
taking this matter to heart, urged the Sire de Luxembourg to come to
terms, mingled threats with coaxings, and caused the Norman gold to
glitter before his eyes. He seemed to fear, and his fear was shared by
the masters and doctors of the University, that King Charles would
likewise make an offer, that he would promise more than King Henry's
ten thousand golden francs and that in the end, by dint of costly
gifts, the Armagnacs would succeed in winning back their
fairy-godmother.[2116] The rumour ran that King Charles, hearing that
the English were about to gain possession of Jeanne for a sum of
money, sent an ambassador to warn the Duke of Burgundy not on any
account to consent to such an agreement, adding that if he did, the
Burgundians in the hands of the King of France would be made to pay
for the fate of the Maid.[2117] Doubtless the rumour was false; albeit
the fears of the Lord Bishop and the masters of the Paris University
were not entirely groundless; and it is certain that from the banks of
the Loire the negotiations were being attentively followed with a view
to intervention at a favourable moment.

[Footnote 2116: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 9. Vallet de Viriville, _Histoire
de Charles VII_, vol. ii, p. 175.]

[Footnote 2117: Morosini, vol. iii, p. 236. U. Chevalier, _L'abjuration
de Jeanne d'Arc_, p. 18, note.]

Besides, some sudden descent of the French was always to be feared.
Captain La Hire was ravaging Normandy, the knight Barbazan, la
Champagne, and Marshal de Boussac, the country between the Seine, the
Marne and the Somme.[2118]

[Footnote 2118: Morosini, vol. iii, p. 276, note.]

At length, about the middle of November, the Sire de Luxembourg
consented to the bargain; Jeanne was delivered up to the English. It
was decided to take her to Rouen, through Ponthieu, along the
sea-shore, through the north of Normandy, where there would be less
risk of falling in with the scouts of the various parties.

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