416, 417.] [Footnote 359: Monstrelet, vol.iii, p.

314.] [Footnote 360: _Trial_, vol.i, p.

51.] There were two fine religious houses in the town, one belonging to the Grey Friars, the other to the Sisters of St.Claire, the sons and daughters of good St.Francis.[361] The monastery of the Grey Friars had been built two hundred years earlier by Mathieu II of Lorraine.
The reigning duke had recently added richly to its endowments.

Noble ladies, great lords, and among others a Bourlemont lord of Domremy and Greux lay there beneath brasses.[362] [Footnote 361: S.Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, p.

clxxvii.] [Footnote 362: Expilly, _Dictionnaire geographique de la France_, under the word _Neufchateau_.] In the flower of their history these mendicant monks of old had welcomed to their third order crowds of citizens and peasants as well as multitudes of princes and kings.[363] Now they languished corrupt and decadent among the French friars.