tle
they knew the consummate old fox of Dijon. The French were not strong
enough yet, neither were the English weak enough. It was agreed that
in August an embassy should be sent to the Duke of Burgundy in the
town of Arras. After four days negotiation, a truce for fifteen days
was signed and the embassy left Reims.[1542] At the same time, the
Duke at Paris solemnly renewed his complaint against Charles of
Valois, his father's assassin, and undertook to bring an army to the
help of the English.[1543]

[Footnote 1540: _Trial_, vol. iv, pp. 514, 515. Monstrelet, vol. iv,
p. 340. _Relation du greffier de La Rochelle_, p. 37. Letter from
three noblemen of Anjou, in _Trial_, vol. v, p. 130. Third account of
Jean Abonnel in De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol. ii, p.
404, no. 3.]

[Footnote 1541: Letter from three noblemen of Anjou, in _Trial_, vol.
v, p. 130.]

[Footnote 1542: The 20th or 21st. Monstrelet, vol. iv, pp. 348 _et
seq._ De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol. II, pp. 404 _et
seq._]

[Footnote 1543: Falconbridge, in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 455. _Journal
d'un bourgeois de Paris_, pp. 240, 241. Stevenson, _Letters and
papers_, vol. ii, pp. 101 _et seq._ Rymer, _Foedera_, vol. iv, part
iv, p. 150.]

Leaving Antoine de Hellande, nephew of the Duke-Archbishop[1544] to
command Reims, the King of France departed from the city on the 20th
of July and went to Saint-Marcoul-de-Corbeny, where on the day after
their coronation, the Kings were accustomed to touch for the
evil.[1545]

[Footnote 1544: Archives de Reims, Municipal Accounts, vol. i, years
1428-29. _Trial_, vol. v, p. 141. Monstrelet, vol. iv, p. 339. H.
Jadart, _Jeanne d'Arc a Reims_, p. 51.]

[Footnote 1545: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 199. _Chronique de la Pucelle_,
p. 323. Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i, p. 97. _Journal du siege_,
p. 114. Martial d'Auvergne, _Vigiles_, vol. i, p. 111.]

Saint Marcoul cured the evil.[1546] He was of royal race, but his
power, manifested long after his death, came to him especially from
his name, and it was believed that Saint Marcoul was able to cure
those afflicted with marks on the neck, as Saint Clare was to give
sight to the blind, and Saint Fort to give strength to children. The
King of France shared with him the power of healing scrofula; and as
the power came to him from the holy oil brought down from heaven by a
dove, it was thought that this virtue would be more effectual at the
time of the anoin