(_Item: je donne a Oudinot, a Richard et a Gerard, clercz enfantz du maistre de l'escole de Marcey dessoubz Brixey, doubz escus pour priier pour mi et pour dire les sept psaulmes._) (Item: I give to the boys, Oudinot, Richard, and Gerard, scholars of the school-master at Marcey below Brixey, twelve crowns to pray for me and to repeat the seven psalms.) The will of Jean de Bourlemont, 23 October, 1399, in S.Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, document in facsimile xiii.] From her mother she learnt the Paternoster, Ave Maria, and the credo.[177] She heard a few beautiful stories of the saints.

That was her whole education.

On holy days, in the nave of the church, beneath the pulpit, while the men stood round the wall, she, in the manner of the peasant women, squatted on her toes, listening to the priest's sermon.[178] [Footnote 177: _Trial_, vol.i, pp.

46, 47.] [Footnote 178: _Ibid._, vol.ii, p.402.See in Montfaucon's _Monuments de la Monarchie Francaise_, vol.iii, the second miniature, the "Douze perils d'enfer" (the twelve perils of hell).] As soon as she was old enough she laboured in the fields, weeding, digging, and, like the Lorraine maidens of to-day, doing the work of a man.[179] [Footnote 179: _Trial_, vol.ii, pp.

409, 415, 420.] The river meadows were the chief source of wealth to the dwellers on the banks of the Meuse.