e Queen of Sicily.[865] In all the
loyal provinces a new effort was being made for the relief and
deliverance of the brave city. Gien, Bourges, Blois, Chateaudun, Tours
sent men and victuals; Angers, Poitiers, La Rochelle, Albi, Moulins,
Montpellier, Clermont sulphur, saltpetre, steel, and arms.[866] And if
the citizens of Toulouse gave nothing it was because their city, as
the notables consulted by the _capitouls_[867] ingenuously declared,
had nothing to give--_non habebat de quibus_.[868]

[Footnote 865: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 93. _Geste des nobles_, in _La
chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 250. The Accounts of fortresses
(1428-1430), in Boucher de Molandon, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne
d'Arc_, pp. 30 _et seq._]

[Footnote 866: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 287. _Journal du siege_,
p. 81. Boucher de Molandon, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc_, pp.
28, 29. P. Mantellier, _Histoire du siege_, p. 230.]

[Footnote 867: The name by which the town councillors of Toulouse were
called.]

[Footnote 868: _Le siege d'Orleans, Jeanne d'Arc et les capitouls de
Toulouse_, by A. Thomas, in _Annales du Midi_, 1889, p. 232. It would
appear that Saint-Flour, although solicited, did not contribute: it
had enough to do to defend itself from the freebooters who were
constantly hovering round. Cf. _Villandrando et les ecorcheurs a
Saint-Flour_ by M. Boudet, Clermont-Ferrand, 1895, in 8vo, pp. 18 _et
seq._]

The King's councillors, notably my Lord Regnault de Chartres,
Chancellor of the Realm, were forming a new army. What they had failed
to accomplish, by means of the men of Auvergne, they would now attempt
with troops from Anjou and Le Mans. The Queen of Sicily, Duchess of
Touraine and Anjou, willingly lent her aid. Were Orleans taken she
would be in danger of losing lands by which she set great store.
Therefore she spared neither men, money, nor victuals. After the
middle of April, a citizen of Angers, one Jean Langlois, brought
letters informing the magistrates of the imminent arrival of the corn
she had contributed. The town gave Jean Langlois a present, and the
magistrates entertained him at dinner at the Ecu Saint-Georges. This
corn was a part of that large convoy which the Maid was to
accompany.[869]

[Footnote 869: Receipts of the town of Orleans in 1429, in Boucher de
Molandon, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc_, p. 36.]

Towards the end of the month, by order of my Lord the Bastard, the
captains of the French garris