Agincourt by Juliet Barker

83 and le Févre, i, p. 225 both place de Gaucourt in the garrison, which they number at four hundred men-at-arms (that is, including his contingent), though they do not mention how he, and they, got there. (back to text)
    10
GHQ
, pp. 32-5. (back to text)
    11Jean de Bordiu, writing on 3 September 1415, notes that the king’s great army “increases every day”: Curry, p. 445;
Registres de la Jurade
, p. 257. (back to text)
    12Forhan,
The Political Theory of Christine de Pizan
, p. 136;
GHQ
, p. 35. For Henry’s letter to Charles VI, quoting Deuteronomy, see above, p. 143. (back to text)
    13Deuteronomy, ch. 20, vv. 13-14;
GHQ
, pp. 34-7. (back to text)
    14
St-Denys
, v, pp. 536-7;
GHQ
, pp. 36-7; Curry, p. 445;
Registres de la Jurade
, p. 257. (back to text)
    15
GHQ
, pp. 38-9;
St-Denys
, v, p. 536. (back to text)
    16
Original Letters Illustrative of English History
, i, p. 95. Hostell is usually described as an archer, but Curry, p. 435, identifies him as a man-at-arms in the company of Sir John Lumley; he went on to fight at the battle of Agincourt. (back to text)
    17
GHQ
, p. 39. (back to text)
    18Ibid. (back to text)
    19Pizan,
BDAC
, pp. 116, 136. (back to text)
    20
First English Life
, p. 38; Barber,
The Knight and Chivalry
, p. 209; Seward,
Henry V as Warlord
, pp. 149-51. (back to text)
    21
GHQ
, pp. 40-1. When Henry V invaded Normandy a second time, he hired miners from Liège, suggesting that lack of military experience had been a problem for the Welsh. (back to text)
    22Ibid., pp. 42-3. (back to text)
    23Curry, p. 445;
Registres de la Jurade
, p. 257. (back to text)
    24
First English Life
, p. 38; Waurin, i, p. 182. (back to text)
    25Curry, p. 445;
Registres de la Jurade
, p. 257. (back to text)
    26Curry, p. 444;
Registres de la Jurade
, p. 256. (back to text)
    27All the clinical information on dysentery which follows has been extracted from Healthlink Worldwide’s online newsletter on the control of diarrhoeal diseases,
Dialogue on Diarrhoea
, which can be found at www.rehydrate.org/dd/su55.htm. Handwashing with soap is the only proven method of preventing transmission, but dysentery can be cured with anti-microbial drugs. (back to text)
    28Henry lost thirty-three of his own horses to murrain during the campaign: W&W, ii, p. 186 n. 2. (back to text)
    29Talbot and Hammond (eds),
The Medical Practitioners in Medieval England: A Biographical Register
, p. 222;
First English Life
, p. 36. (back to text)
    30Monstrelet, iii, pp. 84-5; le Févre, i, p. 226; Waurin, i, p. 183. (back to text)
    31
Foedera
, ix, pp. 288, 310, 312, 314; MS Mowbray, fos 22-4; William Beamont,
Annals of the Lords of Warrington
(Chetham Society, 1872), i, p. 239. Harington’s account was debited for this amount, plus two extra pitchers of wine. (back to text)
    32
Calendar of Signet Letters of Henry IV and Henry V (1399-1422)
, p. 196 no. 964; Curry, pp. 444-5;
Registres de la Jurade
, pp. 256-7;
Foedera
, ix, pp. 310-11. (back to text)
    33
ODNB
;
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, xx, 1-5 Henry V (1413- 1418)
, ed. by J. L. Kirby (HMSO, London, 1995), nos 460-1;
GHQ
, p. 45. (back to text)
    34
ODNB
;
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem
, nos 441-51, 452-9; Wylie, “Notes on the Agincourt Roll,” p. 130. The earl himself had brought a retinue of 40 men-at-arms and 120 archers: MS E101/45/5, TNA. For further victims of dysentery, see below, pp. 204-7. (back to text)
    35
GHQ
, pp. 44-5, 47 n. 1. (back to text)
    36Ibid., pp. 48-9. (back to text)
    37
St-Denys
, v, p. 538;
GHQ
, pp. 48-9. (back to text)
    38W&W, ii, pp. 52, 49 n. 1; Perceval de Cagny,
Chroniques
, ed. by H. Moranvillé (Société de l’Histoire de France, Paris, 1902), p. 95 n. 4. Jehan La Guette, otherwise known as Lescot (was he also a Scot?), was given the boat, which is described as a “galiotte” (a term usually used for a pirate vessel), and paid a salary, but ran the enterprise “at his own peril and fortune.” (back to text)
    39Monstrelet, iii, p. 84; le Févre,