Pierre de Trie, commander of Beauvais, Jean, Count of Neufchatel and Fribourg, were ordered to join the main body.[352] [Footnote 352: Report of Andre d'Epernon in S.Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, p.

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217, 218, 220.] On the march, as was his custom, Antoine de Vergy laid waste all the villages of the castellany with fire and sword.

Threatened once again with a disaster with which they were only too well acquainted, the folk of Domremy and Greux already beheld their cattle captured, their barns set on fire, their wives and daughters ravished.

Having experienced before that the Castle on the Island was not secure enough, they determined to flee and seek refuge in their market town of Neufchateau, only five miles away from Domremy.