her. She promised
to wear woman's apparel, and to let her head be shaved.[2505]

[Footnote 2505: _Ibid._, vol. i, pp. 452-453.]

The Duchess of Bedford, knowing that she was a virgin, saw to it that
she was treated with respect.[2506] As the ladies of Luxembourg had
done formerly, she essayed to persuade her to wear the clothing of her
sex. By a certain tailor, one Jeannotin Simon, she had had made for
Jeanne a gown which she had hitherto refused to wear. Jeannotin
brought the garment to the prisoner, who this time did not refuse it.
In putting it on, Jeannotin touched her bosom, which she resented. She
boxed his ears;[2507] but she consented to wear the gown provided by
the Duchess.

[Footnote 2506: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 155.]

[Footnote 2507: _Ibid._, p. 89.]

CHAPTER XIV

THE TRIAL FOR RELAPSE--SECOND SENTENCE--DEATH OF THE MAID

On the following Sunday, which was Trinity Sunday, there arose a
rumour that Jeanne had resumed man's apparel. The report spread
rapidly from the castle down the narrow streets where lived the clerks
in the shadow of the cathedral. Straightway notaries and assessors
hastened to the tower which looked on the fields.

In the outer court of the castle they found some hundred men-at-arms,
who welcomed them with threats and curses.[2508] These fellows did not
yet understand that the judges had conducted the trial so as to bring
honour to old England and dishonour to the French. They did not
realise what it meant when the Maid of the Armagnacs, who hitherto had
obstinately persisted in her utterances, was at length brought to
confess her impostures. They did not see how great was the advantage
to their country when it was published abroad throughout the world
that Charles of Valois had been conducted to his coronation by a
heretic. But no, the only idea these brutes were capable of grasping
was the burning of the girl prisoner who had struck terror into their
hearts. The doctors and masters they treated as traitors, false
counsellors and Armagnacs.[2509]

[Footnote 2508: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 148.]

[Footnote 2509: _Trial_, vol. ii, p. 14; vol. iii, p. 148.]

In the castle yard is Maitre Andre Marguerie, bachelor in decrees,
archdeacon of Petit-Caux, King's Counsellor,[2510] who is inquiring
what has happened. He had displayed great assiduity in the trial. The
Maid he held to be a crafty damsel.[2511] Now again he desired to give
an expert's judgment touching what had just o