mp.[2037]
Like his master, he ever appeared the obedient son of Mother Church;
but prudence counselled him to await the approach of English and
French and to see what each of them would offer.

[Footnote 2037: Monstrelet, vol. iv, p. 389. Perceval de Cagny, p. 176.
Morosini, vol. iii, pp. 300-302; vol. iv, pp. 254-355. De La
Fons-Melicocq, _Une cite picarde au moyen age ou Noyon et les
Noyonnais aux XIV'e et XV'e siecles_, Noyon, 1841, vol. ii, pp.
100-105. In 1441 Lyonnel de Wandomme, who was governor of this town,
was driven out by the inhabitants on the death of Jean de Luxembourg
(Monstrelet, vol. v, p. 456).]

At Beaulieu, Jeanne was treated courteously and ceremoniously. Her
steward, Messire Jean d'Aulon, waited on her in her prison; one day he
said to her pitifully:

"That poor town of Compiegne, which you so dearly loved, will now be
delivered into the hands of the enemies of France, whom it must needs
obey."

She made answer: "No, that shall not come to pass. For not one of
those places, which the King of Heaven hath conquered through me and
restored to their allegiance to the fair King Charles, shall be
recaptured by the enemy, so diligently will he guard them."[2038]

[Footnote 2038: Perceval de Cagny, p. 177, very doubtful.]

One day she tried to escape by slipping between two planks. She had
intended to shut up her guards in the tower and take to the fields,
but the porter saw and stopped her. She concluded that it was not
God's will that she should escape this time.[2039] Notwithstanding she
had far too much self-reliance to despair. Her Voices, like her
enamoured of marvellous encounters and knightly adventures, told her
that she must see the King of England.[2040] Thus did her dreams
encourage and console her in her misfortune.

[Footnote 2039: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 163-164, 249.]

[Footnote 2040: _Ibid._, p. 151.]

Great was the mourning on the Loire when the inhabitants of the towns
loyal to King Charles learnt the disaster which had befallen the Maid.
The people, who venerated her as a saint, who went so far as to say
that she was the greatest of all God's saints after the Blessed Virgin
Mary, who erected images of her in the chapels of saints, who ordered
masses to be said for her, and collects in the churches, who wore
leaden medals on which she was represented as if the Church had
already canonized her,[2041] did not withdraw their trust, but
continued to believe in her.[2042] Such faith