lxxiii, 87, note 1.

E.de Bouteiller and G.de Braux, _Nouvelles recherches_, pp.
4-15.] Jacques d'Arc was then the elder (_doyen_) of the community.

Many duties fell to the lot of the village elder, especially in troubled times.

It was for him to summon the mayor and the aldermen to the council meetings, to cry the decrees, to command the watch day and night, to guard the prisoners.

It was for him also to collect taxes, rents, and feudal dues, an ungrateful office in a ruined country.[242] [Footnote 242: Bonvalot, _Le tiers etat d'apres la charte de Beaumont et ses filiales_, Paris, 1886, p.