[604] Archambault to St. Sulpice, L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 71; Charles IX to St. Sulpice, September 15, ibid., 74. The camps on the Loire were broken up on September 14, only sufficient forces being left to invest Orleans. The soldiers were sent to Normandy via Montargis, Angerville-la-Rivière, and Etampes, leaving posts at Gien, Beaugency, and Pithiviers to keep the lines open between north and south and to prevent D’Andelot from getting to Orleans.
On the siege of Rouen, see Claude Haton, I, 286-89. The city was taken October 26 (Floquet, Hist. du Parlement de Normandie, II, 435).
On Huguenot excesses in Rouen, see an arrêt of the Parlement of Rouen, August 26, 1562, in Mém. de Condé, III, 613, and another ordering prayers for the capture of Fort St. Catherine, October 7 (ibid., IV, 41).
[605] See his singular letter to Cecil of July 29, 1562, in C. S. P. For., No. 389.
[606] Cf. articles for the English agent Vaughan, of August 30, in Cecil’s handwriting (ibid., No. 550).
[607] Ibid., No. 763, Vaughan to Cecil, October 4, 1562; Forbes, II, 89.
[608] C. S. P. For., No. 790, October 7, 1562; Forbes, II, 93.
[609] Cf. C. S. P. For., No. 803, October 8, 1562; Forbes, II, 101; report of a military expert to Cecil.
[610] It was taken by assault by the duke of Guise (Corresp. de Catherine de Médicis, I, 414, note; Claude Haton, I, 285; Mém. de Condé, IV, 41).
[611] The English aid had been divided into three bodies, that portion which entered Rouen being only the vanguard. It was the middle portion which followed in ships up the river and was captured by Damville. The third body was of the rear guard and returned to Havre-de-Grace (C. S. P. Ven., No. 302, October 14, 1562). In the fight off Caudebec 200 English were killed, and 80 made prisoners, all of whom were hanged by the French—a more rigorous punishment than even sixteenth-century war nominally allowed (ibid., For., Nos. 870, 872, October 17, 18, 1562).