sent a messenger to
Chinon to the King. We arrived about mid-day at Chinon, and lodged at
an inn. After dinner I went to see the King at the castle.'

Either here Joan of Arc, or the reporter, which is more likely, makes
a slip, as she did not see Charles till two days after her arrival at
Chinon.

B.--'Who pointed out the King to you?'

J.--'When I entered the chamber I recognised the King from among all
the others, my voices having revealed him to me. I told the King that
I wished to go and make war on the English.'

B.--'When your voices revealed your King to you, were they accompanied
by any light?'

Joan made no answer.

B.--'Did you see any angel above the figure of the King?'

'Spare me such questions,' pleaded Joan; but the Inquisitor was not to
be so easily put off, and repeated the question again and again, until
Joan said that the King had also seen visions and heard revelations.

'What were these revelations?' asked the priest.

This Joan refused to answer, and told Beaupere that he might, if he
liked, send to Charles and ask him.

'Did you expect the King to see you?' then asked the priest.

Her answer was that the voice had promised her that the King would
soon see her after her arrival.

'And why,' asked Beaupere, 'did he receive you?'

'Those on my side,' said Joan, 'knew well that I was sent by God; they
have known and acknowledged that voice.'

'Who?' asked Beaupere.

'The King and others,' answered Joan, 'have heard the voices coming to
me. Charles of Bourbon also, and two or three others.'

(The Charles of Bourbon was the Count of Clermont.)

'Did you often hear that voice?' asked the priest.

'Not a day passes that I do not hear it,' Joan replied.

'What do you ask of it?' inquired Beaupere.

'I have never,' answered Joan, 'asked for any recompense, except the
salvation of my soul.'

'Did the voice always encourage you to follow the army?'

'The voice told me to remain at Saint Denis. I wished to remain, but
against my will the knights obliged me to leave. I would have remained
had I had my free-will.'

'When were you wounded?' asked Beaupere.

'I was wounded,' Joan answered, 'in the moat before Paris, having gone
there from Saint Denis. At the end of five days I recovered.'

'What did you attempt to do against Paris?'

Joan answered that she had made one skirmish (_escarmouche_) in front
of Paris.

'Was it on a feast day?' asked the priest.

'It was,' replied J