CHAPTER XIV.
THE MAID AT TOURS AND AT SELLES-EN-BERRY--THE TREATISES OF JACQUES GELU AND OF JEAN GERSON.
On the morning of Sunday the 8th of May, the English departed, retreating towards Meung and Beaugency.

In the afternoon of the same day, Messire Florent d'Illiers with his men-at-arms left the town and went straight to his captaincy of Chateaudun to defend it against the _Godons_ who had a garrison at Marchenoir and were about to descend on Le Dunois.

On the next day the other captains from La Beauce and Gatinais returned to their towns and strongholds.[1119] [Footnote 1119: _Journal du siege_, p.91.

G.Met-Gaubert, _Notice sur Florent d'Illiers_, Chartres, 1864, in 8vo.] On the ninth of the same month, the combatants brought by the Sire de Rais, receiving neither pay nor entertainment, went off each man on his own account; and the Maid did not stay longer.[1120] After having taken part in the procession by which the townsfolk rendered thanks to God, she took her leave of those to whom she had come in the hour of distress and affliction and whom she now quitted in the hour of deliverance and rejoicing.

They wept with joy and with gratitude and offered themselves to her for her to do with them and their goods whatever she would.