but she had added to it
by affirming that she did so by the wish of God--she had done even
worse; for did she not refuse when at the castle of Beaurevoir to wear
woman's dress, also when at Arras, and even now in Rouen? So obstinate
was she in her wickedness that she had refused to comply with the
Bishop's wish that she should leave off these clothes, although he
had told her she would be allowed to assist at the offices of the
Church if she would consent to do so.

To all these accusations, at the end of each paragraph, Cauchon bade
Courcelles, who read the accusations, to pause, and would then ask the
prisoner what answer she had to make to that accusation. Joan of Arc
contented herself by simply denying the alleged crime, or else she
referred to the answers she had made to the same, or similar
questions, during the former days when under examination. Some of her
replies were, as they often had been during those trials, grand in
their simplicity. For instance, when asked a difficult and even
perplexing question relating to her belief in the Church Militant, she
said:--'I believe that the Holy Father, the Bishops, and other clergy,
are here for the protection of the Christian faith, and to punish
those who deserve it. As to my acts,' she continued, 'I submit them to
the Church in Heaven, to God, to the Holy Virgin, and the Saints in
Paradise. I have not failed,' she proudly added, 'in the Christian
religion; nor will I ever do so.'

When repeatedly questioned about the change of costume, and of its
importance regarding her being allowed to attend Mass or not, she
said: 'In the eyes of the Saviour the dress of those who receive the
Sacrament can have no importance.'

On the day after, the 28th of March, the same chamber was used for the
trial, and the same indictments were entered on. That almost
interminable series of accusations numbered some seventy charges. On
that day, Joan of Arc appears to have ceased to deny at any length the
string of false evidence brought against her; she generally replied
that she had already answered as to the crimes laid to her charge, or
simply said, 'I refer myself to my Saviour.' Two of her answers are
worth recording: the first, when accused of having been guilty not
only of discarding the proper dress of her sex, but also of having
acted the part of a man, she said: 'As to women's occupation there are
plenty of them to occupy themselves with such things'; and to the
second questi