. i, pp. 91, 92.]

In the beginning, the examiner asked Jeanne whether she had seen Saint
Michael and the saints, and whether she had seen anything but their
faces. He insisted: "You must say what you know."

"Rather than say all that I know, I would have my head cut off."[2320]

[Footnote 2320: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 93.]

They puzzled her with questions touching the nature of angelic bodies.
She was simple; with her own eyes she had seen Saint Michael; she said
so and could not say otherwise.

The examiner, now as always, informed of the words she had let fall in
prison, asked her whether she had heard her Voices.

"Yes, in good sooth. They told me that I should be delivered. But I
know neither the day nor the hour. And they told me to have good
courage, and to be of good cheer."[2321]

[Footnote 2321: _Ibid._, p. 94.]

Of all this the judges believed nothing, because demonologists teach
that witches lose their power when an officer of Holy Church lays
hands upon them.

The examiner recurred to her man's dress. Then he endeavoured to find
out whether she had cast spells over the banners of her companions in
arms.

He sought out by what secret power she led the soldiers.

This power she was willing to reveal: "I said to them: 'Go on boldly
against the English;' and at the same time I went myself."[2322]

[Footnote 2322: _Ibid._, pp. 95-97.]

In this examination, which was the most diffuse and the most captious
of all, the following curious question was put to the accused: "When
you were before Jargeau, what was it you were wearing behind your
helmet? Was there not something round?"[2323]

[Footnote 2323: _Ibid._, p. 99.]

At the siege of Jargeau she had been struck on the head by a huge
stone which had not hurt her; and this her own party deemed
miraculous.[2324] Did the judges of Rouen imagine that she wore a
golden halo, like the saints, and that this halo had protected her?

[Footnote 2324: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 301. _Journal du siege_,
pp. 98, 99.]

Later she was examined on a more ordinary subject, concerning a
picture in the house of her host at Orleans, representing three women:
Justice, Peace, Union.

Jeanne knew nothing about it;[2325] she was no connoisseur in tapestry
and in paintings, like the Duke of Bar and the Duke of Orleans;
neither were her judges, not on this occasion at any rate. And if they
were concerned about a picture in the house of Maitre Boucher, it was
not so muc