nded she was ever pitiful--to the English as
well as to those of her own country, and she always tried to get them
to make their confession, if badly, and even if only slightly,
wounded. The fear of God was ever before her, nor would she for
anything in the world do anything which she considered contrary to His
will: for instance, when she was wounded in the shoulder by the dart
from a crossbow, when some people wished her to allow the wound to be
charmed, promising that if she had it done her hurt would be healed,
Joan said that to do so would be a sin, and that she would sooner die
than commit one.

'I am greatly surprised,' continued the unsophisticated old priest,
'that such great lawyers (_grands clercs_) as were those at Rouen
could have sentenced Joan to death. How could they put to death that
poor child, who was such a good and such a simple Christian, and that
too, so cruelly, without a reason--for surely they had not sufficient
reason at any rate to kill her!'

Pasquerel could evidently not grasp the real reason for the part
played by Cauchon in the execution of the Maid of Orleans, or imagine
that in order to obtain an archbishopric his beloved Joan had been
condemned by the Bishop of Beauvais to the flames. Pasquerel's
evidence ends thus:--

'I have nothing more to add except this. On several occasions Joan
told me that if she were to die, she hoped our lord the King would
found chantries in which the Almighty might be entreated in
intercession for the souls of those who had been slain in the defence
of the kingdom.'

The next witness is John d'Aulon, knight, Seneschal of Beaucaire,
member of the King's Council. It was he who had served Joan of Arc as
esquire during all her campaigns. His evidence is of importance, as it
proves clearly the grounds on which the trial of rehabilitation was
held--namely, to clear the King of having been crowned and anointed
through the agency of one condemned by the Church as an apostate and
heretic. The Archbishop thus wrote to d'Aulon on the 20th of April,
1456:--

'By the sentence pronounced against Joan the English wish it to be
believed that the Maid was a sorceress, a heretic, and in league with
the devil, and therefore that the King had received his kingdom by
those means; and thus they hold as heretics the King and those that
have served him.'

Nothing can be clearer than this declaration, or show better the real
object for which that utterly selfish prince, Ch