ootnote 72: D. Lottin, _Recherches sur la ville d'Orleans_, Orleans,
7 vols. in 8vo; Boucher de Molandon, _Les comptes de ville d'Orleans
des xiv'e et xv'e siecles_, 1880, in 8vo; Jules Loiseleur, _Compte
des depenses faites par Charles VII pour secourir Orleans pendant le
siege de 1428_, Orleans, 1868, in 8vo; Louis Jarry, _Le compte de
l'armee anglaise au siege d'Orleans_, Orleans, 1892, in 8vo; Couret,
_Un fragment inedit des anciens registres de la prevote d'Orleans,
relatif au reglement des frais du siege de 1428-1429_, Orleans, 1697,
in 8vo (extract from the _Memoires de l'Academie de Sainte Croix_).]

[Footnote 73: Rymer, _Foedera, conventiones...._, ed. tercia, Hagae
Comitis, 1739-1745, 10 vols. in folio; Delpit, _Collection de
documents francais qui se trouvent en Angleterre_, Paris, 1847, in
4to; J. Stevenson, _Letters and Papers illustrative of the Wars of the
English in France during the reign of Henry VI_, 1861-1864, 3 parts,
in 2 vols. in 8vo; Charles Gross, _The Sources and Literature of
English History_, 1900, in 8vo.]

From the letters in the archives at Reims, copied by Rogier in the
seventeenth century, we learn how Troyes, Chalons, and Reims
surrendered to the King. From these letters also we see how very far
from accurate is Jean Chartier's account of the capitulation of the
city and how insufficient, especially considering the character of the
witness, is the evidence of Dunois on this subject.[74]

[Footnote 74: Varin, _Archives legislatives de la ville de Reims_, 2nd
part; _Statuts_, vol. i, p. 596; _Trial_, vol. iv, pp. 284 _et seq._]

Four or five records throw a faint light here and there on the
obscurity which shrouds the unfortunate campaign on the Aisne and the
Oise.

The registers of the chapter of Rouen, the wills of canons and sundry
other documents, discovered by M. Robillard de Beaurepaire in the
archives of Seine-Inferieure, serve to correct certain errors in the
two trials.[75]

[Footnote 75: E. Robillard de Beaurepaire, _Recherches sur le proces
de condamnation de Jeanne d'Arc_, Rouen, 1869, in 8vo [_Precis des
travaux de l'Academie de Rouen, 1867-1868_, pp. 321-448]; _Notes sur
les juges et les assesseurs du proces de condamnation de Jeanne
d'Arc_, Rouen, 1890, in 8vo [_Precis des travaux de l'Academie de
Rouen, 1888-1889_, pp. 375-504].]

How many other detached papers, all valuable to the historian, might I
not enumerate! Surely this is another reason for mistrusting reco