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59 These risks would be avoided if an all-out attack were launched at Orléans. The English would then be able to dictate the shape of events without reliance on others. Gloucester’s distrust was real, and the bad blood between him and Bedford, seen in intermittent sniping over his older brother’s conduct of the war, had now found a damaging focus. 60 This challenge may have been prompted by the release plan. Sadly, an opportunity to seize control of events and undermine Bedford’s prestige was only too attractive to his brother, Gloucester.
It was this stand on principle that alienated Burgundy, who then withdrew his forces from the siege. A final opportunity to return to the policy of abstinence had been lost. The English were now unable to maintain any form of blockade. In April a relief force under Joan of Arc gained access to the city. The defenders were given new hope and launched a series of attacks against the bastilles that forced the English withdrawal from Orléans on 8 May. Joan had no knowledge of the earlier treaty with Bedford or Duke Charles’s own political intentions.
43 As Palsits points out, the best text of Cumberworth’s testament will be found in Edward Peacock, ‘Sir Thomas Cumberworth’s Will’, The Academy 16 (1879), 230–32 and 284–85. , Testamenta Eboracensia, Surtees Society 30 (London, 1855), II, 23–25. 38 THE BROTHERS ORLÉANS AND THEIR KEEPERS ious houses and churches throughout Lincolnshire and (to a lesser extent) London, and it would have not been out the question for him to have been the one who took Charles to the Franciscan house where the duke of Orléans met Thomas Winchelsey.