Footnote 486
Jean Chartier: "... and most of these men lived on beans and wheat rubbed off the stalk." (for the original language, see: Quicherat's "Procès...", Vol IV, p. 73);
"Journal of the Siege...": "And in fact many would have died of hunger if not for the quantity of beans that had been sown that year at the urging of a Franciscan friar named Brother Richard, who during and before Advent had preached in various places in the country of France and said in his sermon, among other things: 'Sow, good people, sow great abundance of beans, for the one who must come will come soon.' " (for the original language, see: Quicherat's "Procès...", Vol IV, p. 182);
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