[Footnote 366: Jean Morel declares that she was at Neufchateau four days, and he adds: "What I tell you I know, for I was with the others at Neufchateau" (_Trial_, vol. ii, p. 392); Gerard Guillemette speaks of four or five days (_Ibid._, p. 414); Nicolas Bailly of three or four (_Ibid._, p. 451). But Jeanne told her judges at Rouen that she stayed a fortnight at Neufchateau (_Ibid._, vol. i, p. 51). When she gave her evidence, the event was less remote, and doubtless her recollection of it was more accurate.] [Footnote 367: _Ibid._, vol. i, p. 51.] [Footnote 368: S. Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, chs. ix, x, xi. Abbe V. Mourot, _Jeanne d'Arc et le tiers-ordre de Saint-Francois_, Saint-Die, 1886, in 8vo. L. de Kerval, _Jeanne d'Arc et les Franciscains_, Vanves, 1893, in 18mo. _E iera begina_, says a correspondent of Morosini, edited by Lefevre-Pontalis, vol. iii, p. 92 and note 2.] Such an inference is very doubtful; and in any case the affiliation cannot have been very ceremonious. It is difficult to see how in so short a time the friars could have instructed her in the practices of Franciscan piety. She was far too imbued with ecclesiastical notions concerning the spiritual and the temporal power, she was too full of mysteries and revelations to imbibe their spirit. Besides, her sojourn at Neufchateau was troubled by anxiety and broken by absences. In this town she received a summons to appear before the official of Toul, in whose jurisdiction she was, as a native of Domremy-de-Greux. A young bachelor of Domremy alleged that a promise of marriage had been given him by Jacques d'Arc's daughter. Jeanne denied it. He persisted in his statement, and summoned her to appear before the official.[369] To this ecclesiastical tribunal such cases belonged; it pronounced judgment on questions of nullity of marriage or validity of betrothal. [Footnote 369: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 128, 219. E. Misset, _Jeanne d'Arc Champenoise_, 1895, in 8vo, p. 28.] The curious part of Jeanne's case is that her parents were against her, and on the side of the young man. It was in defiance of their wishes that she defended the suit and appeared before the official. Later she declared that in this matter she had disobeyed them, and that it was the only time she had failed in the submission she owed her parents.[370] [Footnote 370: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 219: _quibus obediebat in omnibus, nisi in processu Tullensi_.] The journey from Neufchateau to Toul and back involved travelling more than twenty leagues on foot, over roads infested with bands of armed men, through a country desolated by fire and sword, from which the peasants of Domremy had recently fled in a panic. To such a journey, however, she made up her mind against the will of her parents.