as she was taken to the Chateau of Drugy, where the monks of
Saint-Riquier were said to have visited her in prison.[2119] She was
afterwards taken to Crotoy, where the castle walls were washed by the
ocean waves. The Duke of Alencon, whom she called her fair Duke, had
been imprisoned there after the Battle of Verneuil.[2120] At the time
of her arrival, Maitre Nicolas Gueuville, Chancellor of the Cathedral
church of Notre Dame d'Amiens, was a prisoner in that castle in the
hands of the English. He heard her confess and administered the
Communion to her.[2121] And there on that vast Bay of the Somme, grey
and monotonous, with its low sky traversed by sea-birds in their long
flight, Jeanne beheld coming down to her the visitant of earlier days,
the Archangel Saint Michael; and she was comforted. It was said that
the damsels and burgesses of Abbeville went to see her in the castle
where she was imprisoned.[2122] At the time of the coronation, these
burgesses had thought of turning French; and they would have done so
if King Charles had come to their town; he did not come; and perhaps
it was through Christian charity that the folk of Abbeville visited
Jeanne; but those among them who thought well of her did not say so,
for fear they too should be suspected of heresy.[2123]

[Footnote 2119: Chronicle of Jean de la Chapelle, in _Trial_, vol. v,
pp. 358-360. Lefils, _Histoire de la ville du Crotoy et de son
chateau_, pp. 111-118. G. Lefevre-Pontalis, _La panique anglaise_, p.
8, note 5. L'Abbe Bouthors, _Histoire de Saint-Riquier_, Abbeville,
1902, pp. 185, 215, 220.]

[Footnote 2120: Perceval de Cagny, pp. 22, 137.]

[Footnote 2121: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 121. A. Sarrazin, _Jeanne d'Arc
et la Normandie_, pp. 63 _et seq._; Lanery d'Arc, _Livre d'or_, p.
521.]

[Footnote 2122: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 89; vol. iii, p. 121. Le P. Ignace
de Jesus Maria, _Histoire genealogique des comtes de Ponthieu et
maieurs d'Abbeville_, Paris, 1657, p. 490. _Trial_, vol. v, p. 361.]

[Footnote 2123: Monstrelet, vol. iv, pp. 353, 354. _Trial_, vol. v, p.
143.]

The doctors and masters of the University pursued her with a
bitterness hardly credible. In November, after they had been informed
of the conclusion of the bargain between Jean de Luxembourg and the
English, they wrote through their rector to the Lord Bishop of
Beauvais reproaching him for his delay in the matter of this woman and
exhorting him to be more diligent.

"For you it is no s