f Charles in honour of the
King, and the girl Joan, as it pleased their mothers.

'Did the women not touch your rings and charms?'

'Many,' she answered, 'were wont to touch both my hands and my rings;
but I know not with what intention.'

'Did she not receive the sacrament and confess herself as she passed
through the country?'

'Often,' she answered.

'And did you,' asked the priest, 'receive the sacrament in your male
attire?'

'Yes,' she said; 'but not, if I recollect right, when wearing my
armour.'

This confession of having received the Eucharist in her male dress was
made one of the accusations of sacrilege by Joan of Arc's judges.

She was next questioned about a horse she had bought from the Bishop
of Senlis, and ridden in battle.

The next point related to the supposed miraculous resurrection--a very
temporary one however--of an infant three days old at Lagny. When Joan
was in that place, this child appeared to have died, and was put
before the image of the Virgin, in front of which some young women
were kneeling. Joan of Arc joined them in their prayers, upon which it
was noticed that the supposed dead infant gave some signs of life; he
or she was baptized, and soon after expired. Joan of Arc had never for
a moment supposed that it was owing to her presence and her prayers
that this miracle had occurred.

'But,' asked Beaupere, 'was it not the common talk of the town of
Lagny that you had performed this miracle, and had been the means of
restoring the infant to life?'

'I did not inquire,' she said.

She was then asked about the woman, Catherine de la Rochelle, whom, it
may be remembered, Joan had discovered to be a vulgar impostor, and
whom she had tried to dissuade from making people believe that she
could discover hidden treasures, advising her to return to her husband
and her children.

Next she was asked why she had tried to escape from her prison tower
at Beaurevoir. She said that she had made the attempt, although
against the warning of her voices, which had counselled her to have
patience--but that Saint Catherine had comforted her after her fall
from the tower, telling her that she would recover, and also that
Compiegne would not be taken.

It was tried to prove that in order not to fall into the hands of the
enemy she intended committing suicide. To this accusation she
answered:--

'I have already said that I would sooner give up my soul into God's
keeping, than fall into the h