The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 05 [of 13] : $b containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countriesMonstrelet, Enguerrand de
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The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 05 [of 13] : $b containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries
Monstrelet, Enguerrand de
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Item, sir Louis de Gast, the bastard de Vaurus, Jean de Rouvieres,
Tromagon, Bernard de Meureville, and a person called Oraches, who
had sounded the trumpet during the siege, were to be delivered up to
justice,--and such punishment was to be inflicted on them as they might
deserve.
Item, Guichart de Sisay, Pierron de Luppel, master Robert de Gerames,
Philip de Gamaches and John d'Aunay, were to remain in the power of the
two kings until all the forts held by them, or their allies, in the
realm should be given up; and when that was done, they were to have
their liberty.
Item, all the English, Welsh, Scots and Irish, subjects to the king
of England who had assisted in the defence of the place, were to be
delivered up to the two kings.
Item, all other persons, as well men at arms as burghers, were to have
their lives spared, but to remain prisoners to the two kings.
Item, the count de Conversan was to be acquitted of all his engagements
to Pierron de Luppel respecting his ransom; and the latter was to
promise that he would hold him acquitted of the above, without fraud or
malice.
Item, the besieged, within eight days preceding the surrender of
the town, were to carry all their effects to an appointed place,
without any way injuring them, and to deliver inventories thereof to
commissaries named by the said kings. They were to carry all relics,
ornaments, or church-furniture, to a separate place.
Item, they were to deliver up all prisoners, whether confined in the
market-place or in other forts, and acquit them of their pledges.
Item, they were not to suffer any person to quit the place before the
surrender of the town, and, in like manner, were not to permit any one
to enter it, unless so ordered by the kings.
Item, for the due observance of these articles, the besieged were to
give assurances signed with the hand and seal of one hundred of the
principal townsmen, four-and-twenty of whom were to remain as hostages
so long as the two kings might please.
Item, on the signing this treaty, all hostilities were to cease on each
side.
Matters now remained in this state until the 10th day of May, when the
substance of the above articles was put into execution by commissaries
appointed by the two kings, who sent off the prisoners under a strong
guard. Some of the principal were carried to Rouen, and thence to
England, and others to Paris, where they were confined. The whole of
the prisoners of war might be about eight hundred; and their commander
in chief, the bastard de Vaurus, was, by king Henry's command,
beheaded, and his body hung on a tree, without the walls of Meaux,
called thenceforth Vaurus's Tree. This Vaurus had, in his time, hung
many a Burgundian and Englishman: his head was fixed to a lance, and
fastened on the tree over his body.
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