On both sides the combatants laid hands on bread, wine, money, silver-plate, clothes, cattle big and little, and what could not be carried off was burnt.

Men, women, and children were put to ransom.

In most of the villages of Bassigny agriculture was suspended, nearly all the mills were destroyed.[248] [Footnote 247: Du Chesne, _Genealogie de la maison de Vergy_, Paris, 1625, folio.

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1125.] [Footnote 248: S.Luce, Domremy and Vaucouleurs, from 1412 to 1425, in _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, ch.