5. How did she conduct herself between her seventh year up
to the time she left her home?

6. Did she often frequent the churches and places of
devotion of her free-will?

7. How did she occupy herself, and what were her duties?

8. Did she confess often?

9. Did she frequent the fairies' tree and the haunted well,
and did she go to places with the other young people of the
neighbourhood?

10. How did she leave her home, and how did she accomplish
her journey?

11. Were any investigations made in her native country at
the time she was taken prisoner?

12. Did Joan on one occasion escape to Neufchateau on
account of a military raid, and was she then in the company
of her parents?

We now arrive at a higher grade in the ranks of the witnesses, in the
shape of 'l'honorable homme Nicolas Bailly.' Bailly was a man of
sixty; he had been employed by the English in 1430, and by Cauchon--he
was a scrivener (_tabellion_) by profession--to make investigations
into the character of Joan in her native place.

Then came the old bell-ringer of Joan of Arc's village--Perrin le
Drassier, aged sixty. He told how the maiden loved the sound of the
church bells, and how she would blame him when he neglected ringing
them, and of her little gifts to him to make him more diligent in his
office. After the bell-ringer came three priests--all belonging to the
neighbourhood of Domremy. The first--namely, the 'discrete personne
Messire Henri Arnolin'--belonged to Gondrecourt-le-Chateau, near to
Commercy, and was sixty-four. The next is the 'venerable personne
Messire Etienne de Sionne,' curate of the parish church at
Raucessey-sous-Neufchateau, aged fifty-four; and the third was named
Dominic Jocab, curate of the parish church of Moutier-sur-Saulx.

Next came an old peasant from Domremy, named Bertrand Laclopsse, a
thatcher by profession, ninety years of age; after him three
neighbours of Joan's father--Thevenin le Royer, seventy years old;
Jacquier, sixty; and John Moen, wheelwright, fifty-six. But a far more
important witness than any of the preceding three-and-twenty was the
uncle of the heroine, Durand Laxart, farm labourer at Burey-le-Petit,
whom, it will be remembered, Joan first took into her confidence
regarding her voices and her mission. Laxart was then in his sixtieth
year. At the close of his evidence he states that all he had