For the payment of the fighting men they contributed three thousand livres, for their feeding, seven hogsheads of corn.

At their own request, the King imposed on them a new _taille_ of three thousand livres.[1188] At their own expense they despatched workmen of all trades,--masons, carpenters, smiths.

They lent their artillery.

They sent culverins, cannons, La Bergere, and the large mortar to which four horses were harnessed, with the gunners Megret and Jean Boilleve.[1189] They furnished ammunition, engines, arrows, ladders, pickaxes, spades, mattocks; and all were marked, for they were a methodical folk.
Everything for the siege was sent to the Maid.

For in this undertaking she was the one commander they recognised, not the Duke of Alencon, not even the Bastard their own lord's noble brother.