Messenger – Special Delivery

The French army laid siege to the castle of Auberoche (Périgord) where a weakened English army became desperate for help. They sent a messenger with a letter sewn into his clothes to get help, but the French captured him and returned him into the city by catapult.

Anciennes chroniques d’Angleterre, Jean de Wavrin. Source: gallica.bnf.fr

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Français 76, fol. 101r.