She at the same time ordered that Master Philip de Morvilliers,
heretofore councillor of the Duke of Burgundy, should go to Amiens,
accompanied by several clerics of note and by a registrar, and that there
should be held there, by the queen's authority, for the bailiwicks of
Amiens, Vermandois, Tournai, and the countship of Ponthieu, a sovereign
court of justice, in the place of that which there was at Paris. Thus,
and by such a series of acts of violence and of falsehoods, the Duke of
Burgundy, all the while making war on the king, surrounded himself with
hollow forms of royal and legal government.

Whilst civil war was thus penetrating to the very core of the kingship,
foreign war was making its way again into the kingdom. Henry V., after
the battle of Agincourt, had returned to London, and had left his army to
repose and reorganize after its sufferings and its losses. It was not
until eighteen months afterwards, on the 1st of August, 1417, that he
landed at Touques, not far from Honfleur, with fresh troops, and resumed
his campaign in France. Between 1417 and 1419 he successively laid siege
to nearly all the towns of importance in Normandy, to Caen, Bayeux,
Falaise, Evreux, Coutances, Laigle, St. Lo, Cherbourg, &c., &c. Some
he occupied after a short resistance, others were sold to him by their
governors; but when, in the month of July, 1418, he undertook the siege
of Rouen, he encountered there a long and serious struggle. Rouen had at
that time, it is said, a population of one hundred and fifty thousand
souls, which was animated by ardent patriotism. The Rouennese, on the
approach of the English, had repaired their gates, their ramparts, and
their moats; had demanded re-enforcements from the King of France and the
Duke of Burgundy; and had ordered every person incapable of bearing arms
or procuring provisions for ten months, to leave the city. Twelve
thousand old men, women, and children were thus expelled, and died either
round the place or whilst roving in misery over the neighboring country;