ccurred.

[Footnote 2510: De Beaurepaire, _Notes sur les juges_, pp. 82 _et
seq._]

[Footnote 2511: _Trial_, vol. ii, p. 354.]

"That Jeanne is to be seen dressed as a man is not everything," he
said. "We must know what motives induced her to resume masculine
attire."

Maitre Andre Marguerie was an eloquent orator, one of the shining
lights of the Council of Constance. But, when a man-at-arms raised his
axe against him and called out "Traitor! Armagnac!" Maitre Marguerie
asked no further questions, but speedily departed, and went to bed
very sick.[2512]

[Footnote 2512: _Ibid._, vol. iii, pp. 158, 180.]

The next day, Monday the 25th, there came to the castle the
Vice-Inquisitor, accompanied by divers doctors and masters. The
Registrar, Messire Guillaume Manchon, was summoned. He was such a
coward that he dared not come save under the escort of one of the Earl
of Warwick's men-at-arms.[2513] They found Jeanne wearing man's
apparel, jerkin and short tunic, with a hood covering her shaved head.
Her face was in tears and disfigured by terrible suffering.[2514]

[Footnote 2513: _Ibid._, vol. i, p. 454; vol. iii, p. 148.]

[Footnote 2514: _Ibid._, vol. ii, p. 5. Isambart's evidence refers to
this day, the 28th.]

She was asked when and why she had assumed this attire.

She replied: "'Tis but now that I have donned man's dress and put off
woman's."

"Wherefore did you put it on and who made you?"

"I put it on of my own will and without constraint. I had liefer wear
man's dress than woman's."

"You promised and swore not to wear man's dress."

"I never meant to take an oath not to wear it."

"Wherefore did you return to it?"

"Because it is more seemly to take it and wear man's dress, being
amongst men, than to wear woman's dress.... I returned to it because
the promise made me was not kept, to wit, that I should go to mass and
should receive my Saviour and be loosed from my bonds."

"Did you not abjure, and promise not to return to this dress?"

"I had liefer die than be in bonds. But if I be allowed to go to mass
and taken out of my bonds and put in a prison of grace, and given a
woman to be with me, I will be good and do as the Church shall
command."

"Have you heard your Voices since Thursday?"

"Yes."

"What did they say unto you?"

"They told me that through Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret God gave
me to wit his sore pity for the treachery, to which I consented in
abjuring and recanting