VII_, vol.
ii, pp. 240, 241.]

[Footnote 2136: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 47.]

[Footnote 2137: _Ibid._, vol. ii, p. 322.]

[Footnote 2138: _Ibid._, vol. ii, pp. 216, 217. J. Quicherat, _Apercus
nouveaux_, p. 112.]

[Footnote 2139: _Trial_, vol. ii, p. 18.]

Five English men-at-arms,[2140] common soldiers (_houspilleurs_),
guarded the prisoner;[2141] they were not the flower of chivalry. They
mocked her and she rebuked them, a circumstance they must have found
consolatory. At night two of them stayed behind the door; three
remained with her, and constantly troubled her by saying first that
she would die, then that she would be delivered. No one could speak to
her without their consent.[2142]

[Footnote 2140: Lea, _A History of the Inquisition in the Middle Ages_
(1906), vol. iii, p. 359.]

[Footnote 2141: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 154.]

[Footnote 2142: _Ibid._, vol. ii, pp. 318, 319; vol. iii, pp. 131, 140,
148, 161. A. Sarrazin, _P. Cauchon_, p. 200.]

Nevertheless folk entered the prison as if it were a fair (_comme au
moulin_); people of all ranks came to see Jeanne as they pleased. Thus
Maitre Laurent Guesdon, Lieutenant of the Bailie of Rouen, came,[2143]
and Maitre Pierre Manuel, Advocate of the King of England, who was
accompanied by Maitre Pierre Daron, magistrate of the city of Rouen.
They found her with her feet in shackles, guarded by soldiers.[2144]

[Footnote 2143: _Trial_, vol. iii, pp. 186, 187.]

[Footnote 2144: _Ibid._, pp. 199, 200.]

Maitre Pierre Manuel felt called upon to tell her that for certain she
would never have come there if she had not been brought. Sensible
persons were always surprised when they saw witches and soothsayers
falling into a trap like any ordinary Christian. The King's Advocate
must have been a sensible person, since his surprise appeared in the
questions he put to Jeanne.

"Did you know you were to be taken?" he asked her.

"I thought it likely," she replied.

"Then why," asked Maitre Pierre again, "if you thought it likely, did
you not take better care on the day you were captured?"

"I knew neither the day nor the hour when I should be taken, nor when
it should happen."[2145]

[Footnote 2145: _Ibid._, p. 200.]

A young fellow, one Pierre Cusquel, who worked for Jean Salvart, also
called Jeanson, the master-mason of the castle, through the influence
of his employer, was permitted to enter the tower. He also found
Jeanne bound with a long chain attached to a be