not," she answered.

They exchanged insults, and Jeanne's sickness thereupon grew
worse.[2272]

[Footnote 2272: _Ibid._, p. 49.]

The doctors examined her and found that she had fever. Wherefore they
decided to bleed her.

They informed the Earl of Warwick, who became anxious:

"A bleeding!" he cried; "take heed! She is artful and might kill
herself."

Nevertheless Jeanne was bled and recovered.[2273]

[Footnote 2273: _Ibid._, pp. 51, 52.]

On Monday, the 26th, there was no examination.[2274] On the opening of
the fourth sitting, Tuesday, the 27th, Maitre Jean Beaupere asked her
how she had been, which inquiry touched her but little. She replied
drily:

"You can see for yourself. I am as well as it is possible for me to
be."[2275]

[Footnote 2274: What induces me to fix this illness on the 25th of
February is Jean Beaupere's question at the sitting of the 27th, "How
have you been?" and Jeanne's ironical reply. This indisposition must
not be confused, as it generally has been, with Jeanne's serious
illness, which occurred after Easter. The shad and the herrings belong
naturally to Lent; and Maitre Delachambre says explicitly that Jeanne
recovered after the bleeding.]

[Footnote 2275: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 70.]

This sitting was held in the Robing Chamber in the presence of
fifty-four assessors.[2276] Five of them had not been present before,
and among them was Maitre Nicolas Loiseleur, canon of Rouen, whose
share in the proceedings had been to act the Lorraine shoemaker and
Saint Catherine of Alexandria.[2277]

[Footnote 2276: _Ibid._, pp. 68, 69.]

[Footnote 2277: _Ibid._, vol. ii, pp. 332, 362; vol. iii, pp. 60, 133,
141, 156, 162, 173, 181.]

Maitre Jean Beaupere, as on the previous Saturday, was curious to know
whether Jeanne had heard her Voices. She heard them every day.[2278]

[Footnote 2278: _Ibid._, vol. i, p. 70.]

He asked her: "Is it an angel's voice that speaketh unto you, or the
voice of a woman saint or of a man saint? Or is it God speaking
without an interpreter?"

Said Jeanne: "This voice is the voice of Saint Catherine and of Saint
Margaret; and on their heads are beautiful crowns, right rich and
right precious. I am permitted to tell you so by Messire. If you doubt
it send to Poitiers, where I was examined."[2279]

[Footnote 2279: _Ibid._, p. 71.]

She was right in appealing to the clerks of France. The Armagnac
doctors had no less authority in matters of faith than the Engli