During the stay of the English in Santois, and when they were quartered in Lihons, those attached to, and dependant on, sir John de Luxembourg went backward and forward, and had much communication with them, to the great astonishment of the count d'Estampes, who as well as the other lords with him were not very well pleased,--but they could not prevent it at that time. On the departure of the English for Normandy, the men at arms who had obeyed the summons of the count d'Estampes began to retire, each to the place he had come from. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 47: Santois,--a small fruitful country of Picardy, to the south of the Somme and Peronne. Mondidier is the capital.--_Gazetteer._] [Footnote 48: Folleville,--a village in Picardy, election of Mondidier.--_Gazetteer._] [Footnote 49: Montrieul. This must be a mistake, for Montrieul is not on the Somme, and is quite out of their line of march.] [Footnote 50: Lihons,--a town in Picardy, near Peronne.--_Gazetteer._] [Footnote 51: Harbonnieres,--a town in Picardy, near Corbie.--_Gazetteer._] [Footnote 52: Saluts,--old french crowns, of the value of five shillings sterling.--_Cotgrave._] [A.D. 1440.] CHAP. XXXV. THE DAUPHIN, THE DUKE OF BOURBON, AND MANY OF THE GREAT LORDS QUIT IN DISGUST THE COURT OF KING CHARLES[53]. At the commencement of this year, the king of France assembled a large body of nobles and men at arms to march into the Bourbonnois, and conquer the duke of Bourbon and destroy his territories; because he had, to his great vexation, seduced and carried off his son the dauphin, who had, until then, been lodged in the castle of Loches[54]. The count de la Marche was governor of the castle of Loches, and was in the town at the time the dauphin went away, unsuspicious that he would do so without first speaking to him. The bastard of Bourbon, however, with Anthony de Chabannes and other captains, with a large body of men at arms, entered the castle, and, with the dauphin's consent, carried him away to the town of Moulins[55] in the Bourbonnois. Thither followed the duke of Bourbon, the duke d'Alençon, the count de Vendôme, the lords de la Trimouille, de Chaumont, de Prie, and other nobles and great lords, whose intentions were to invest the dauphin with the sole government of France, and to put king Charles in wardship to be managed by them.