on, when taunted with having carried out her mission with
violence and slaughter, she answered: 'I implored at the commencement
of my mission that peace might be made, while, at the same time, I
declared that if that was not agreed to, I was willing to fight.' When
she was accused of having made war on the Burgundians and the English
alike, she made the distinguishing difference between them by
saying:--'As to the Duke of Burgundy, I wrote to him, and asked him
through his envoys that peace should be made between him and my King.
As regards the English, the only peace that could be made with them is
when they have returned to England.' The Maid's natural modesty and
simplicity are apparent in a circumstance which occurred in one of
those long days of searching examination and cross-questioning. When
the sentence she had used, and which had been noted down in the
minutes of an early day of the trial, was read as follows: 'All that I
have done has been done by the advice of my Saviour,' she stopped the
clerk, and said that it should stand thus: 'All that I have done well
has been done by the advice of my Saviour.' When she was asked by what
form of words she prayed to her Saints to come to her assistance, she
repeated the following prayer:--'Very blessed God, in honour of your
holy Passion, I beseech you, if you love me, that you will reveal to
me what I am to answer these Churchmen. I know concerning the dress
the reason for which I have adopted it, but I know not in what manner
I am to discard it. For this thing I beseech you to tell me what to
do.' And she added that after this prayer her voices were soon heard.

On the 31st of March, Cauchon, accompanied by the Vice-Inquisitor and
some other of the judges, had an interview with the prisoner. They
again inquired of Joan of Arc whether she submitted herself wholly and
entirely into the hands of the Church Militant. She answered that if
such were her Saviour's wish she was quite willing to do so. The
accusations were now set forth afresh, in twelve chief heads or
articles, under which the series of calumnies was summarised before
they should be submitted to the University of Paris. These twelve
heads, which formed the foundation of Joan of Arc's condemnation, were
never shown her; and she had therefore no chance of contradicting any
of the grossly false charges of which they were full. Like the trial
itself, these articles were merely a sham invented for the purpose of
t