clamouring for faggots and straw to be brought from the town to set fire to the palisades. But at the cry "Saint George!" the English gathered themselves together, and after a sore and sanguinary fight repulsed the attack of the citizens and free-lances.[970] [Footnote 965: _Journal du siege_, pp. 43, 44.] [Footnote 966: _Ibid._, pp. 78, 79.] [Footnote 967: See the evidence of S. Charles (vol. iii, pp. 116, 117) and certain details in _La chronique de la Pucelle_.] [Footnote 968: _Trial_, vol. iii, pp. 7, 211; vol. iv, pp. 221, 222. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, pp. 250, 251, 287. Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i, pp. 74, 75.] [Footnote 969: _Journal du siege_, pp. 78, 79.] [Footnote 970: _Ibid._, p. 78. _Chronique de la fete_, in _Trial_, vol. v, pp. 291, 292. Cf. Letter written from Germany, in _Trial_, vol. v, p. 349.] The Maid had known nothing of it. Sent from God, on her white horse, a messenger armed yet peaceful, she held it neither just nor pious to fight the English before they had refused her offers of peace. On that day as before her one wish was to go in true saintly wise straight to Talbot. She asked for tidings of her letter and learnt that the English captains had paid no heed to it, and had detained her herald, Guyenne.[971] This is what had happened: [Footnote 971: _Trial_, vol. iii, pp. 27, 108. _Journal du siege_, p. 79.] That letter, which the Bastard deemed couched in vulgar phrase, produced a marvellous impression on the English. It filled them with fear and rage. They kept the herald who had brought it; and, although use and custom insisted on the person of such officers being respected, alleging that a sorceress's messenger must be a heretic, they put him in chains, and after some sort of a trial condemned him to be burnt as the accomplice of the seductress.[972] [Footnote 972: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 284. _Trial_, vol. iii, pp. 26, 27.]