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[204] Livius, 37.

[205] Livius, 38, 39; Walsingham, _Hist. Angl._, ii. 324; Elmham, _Vita_, 107-111; _Gesta_, 114. See also Waurin, ii. 244; Monstrelet, 426; St. Remy, 429 and 422. On September 5 the castle agreed to surrender, if not relieved before the 19th.

Delpit, _Doc. Fr._, pp. 220, 221, Nos. CCCx.x.xIX., CCCXL.

[206] _Rot. Norm._, 164; Carte, i. 247.

[207] _Rot. Norm._, 167; Rymer, IV. iii. 16; _Cal. of Norman Rolls_, Rep. 41, App. 1. 746.

[208] Elmham, _Vita_, 116; Livius, 40, 41.

[209] Redmayne, 51; Elmham, _Vita_, 116; Livius, 42; _Gesta_, 115.

[210] Redmayne, 51.

[211] Livius, 43, 44; _Gesta_, 116.

[212] Elmham, _Vita_, 117, 118; Livius, 42; _Gesta_, 116.

[213] Livius, 44; Elmham, _Vita_, 122. Elmham says that Clarence was posted opposite the castle. Stow, 356, says that Gloucester besieged the castle, while the King besieged the town.

Holkham MS., p. 16, follows Stow.

[214] Livius, 44; Elmham, _Vita_, 122, 123; _Rot. Norm._, 187.

[215] Livius, 45: Elmham, _Vita_, 123, 124; _Gesta_, 117.

[216] Rymer, IV. iii. 23, 24; _Gesta_, 117; Elmham, _Vita_, 124, 125.

[217] List of the captains of castles conquered in 1417; Appendix to _Gesta_, 275. Holkham MS., p. 16.

[218] Livius, 46.

[219] Elmham, _Vita_, 128. He calls the leader of this expedition the Duke of York, at the time a boy of only six years old.

[220] Livius, 46.

[221] Ramsay, i. 250, calls this the south side of the town. It is hardly credible that the gate on the road to Caen would be on the south side when that town lies north of Falaise.

[222] _Gesta_, 118; Elmham, _Vita_, 128; Livius, 46.

[223] _Rot. Norm._, 312; Gregory, 121.

[224] _Rot. Norm._, 312; Elmham, _Vita_, 129-132; Livius, 46, 47; _Gesta_, 118.

[225] Otterbourne, 279, says that Henry spent Christmas at Bayeux in _5 Henry V._, that is, 1417, though in another place he calls it 1418. Walsingham, _Hist. Angl._, also calls it 1418, but his computations of years are always a little hazy, and he seems to begin the new year at Christmas. Both authors mention that it was at this time that Falaise surrendered, which makes the date 1417.

[226] _Rot. Norm._, 308. Livius, 49, gives the date of the delivery of the castle as February 6.

[227] Elmham, _Vita_, 133-138; Livius, 49; _Gesta_, 118.

[228] Waurin, ii. 242.

[229] Walsingham, _Hist. Angl._, ii. 248; Walsingham, _Ipodigma Neustriae_, 486; Elmham, _Vita_, 139, 140; Gesta, 119, 120; _Chronique de Normandie_, 182; Gregory, 121.

[230] Walsingham, _Hist. Angl._, ii. 328; Walsingham, _Ipodigma Neustriae_, 486; Elmham, _Vita_, 139, 140; Gesta, 119, 120; _Chronique de Normandie_, 182; Gregory, 121.

[231] _Rot. Norm._, 248; Rymer, IV. iii. 362.

[232] Carte, i. 276.

[233] _Ibid._, 273.

[234] _Ibid._, 273.

[235] _Ibid._, 274, 276.

[236] See p. 64, note 271, for an estimate of his forces in this expedition. Elmham, _Vita_, 141, calls it a strong force.

[237] Gregory, 121. He includes the Earl of March in the list, who, however, did not join the expedition till later, as he was at present in England.

[238] See Commission to the Earl of Huntingdon of March 17, _Rot.

Norm._, 381.

[239] Elmham, _Vita_, 139, 143.

[240] _Gesta_, 120; Elmham, _Vita_, 141. Both these authorities call this place 'Cawdey,' and are followed therein by Holkham MS., p. 16. The editor of the _Gesta_ thinks this is a clerical error for Hambie. This town, however, was captured after Vire, and it is hardly likely that both these contemporaries would have made the same clerical error. Elmham may have copied from the _Gesta_, but as he was personally acquainted with Humphrey, and gives by far the fullest account of this expedition, it is probable that he wrote on good authority, if not from personal experience.

[241] _Rot. Norm._, 289-292.

[242] Elmham, _Vita_, 141; _Gesta_, 120; Livius, 50.

[243] _Rot. Norm._, 298-300.

[244] _Cal. of Norman Rolls_, Rep. 41, App. I. 746

[245] Robsart was at St. Lo before the day of surrender. Rymer, IV.

iii. 41.

[246] _Rot. Norm._, 300-303; Rymer, IV. iii. 41.

[247] _Cal. of Norman Rolls_, Rep. 41, App. I. 746; Rymer, IV. iii.

40.

[248] _Cal. of Norman Rolls_, Rep. 41, App. I. 746; Rymer, IV. iii.

44.

[249] _Cal. of Norman Rolls_, Rep. 41, App. I. 708.

[250] _Rot. Norm._, 381; Elmham, _Vita_, 144.