ame their Lord, would guarantee absolute
freedom to their trade; the clerks would ask his promise to respect
the goods of the Church. And the King doubtless was not sparing of his
pledges.

[Footnote 1392: J. Rogier in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 285.]

[Footnote 1393: Th. Boutiot in _Histoire de la ville de Troyes_, vol.
ii, pp. 316 _et seq._]

The Maid, with one division of the army, halted before the stronghold
of Saint-Phal, belonging to Philibert de Vaudrey, commander of the
town of Tonnerre, in the service of the Duke of Burgundy.[1394] In
that place of Saint-Phal, Jeanne beheld approaching her a Franciscan
friar, who was crossing himself and sprinkling holy water, for he
feared lest she were the devil, and dared not draw near without having
first exorcised the evil spirit. It was Friar Richard who was coming
from Troyes.[1395] It will be interesting to see who this monk was as
far as we can tell.

[Footnote 1394: J. Rogier, in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 288. Th. Boutiot,
_Histoire de la ville de Troyes_, vol. ii, p. 490. A. Assier, _Une
cite champenoise au xv'e siecle_, Troyes, 1875, in 12mo.]

[Footnote 1395: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 99, 100. _Relation du Greffier de
La Rochelle_, p. 338. _Journal du siege_, pp. 109-110. _Chronique de
la Pucelle_, p. 315.]

The place of his birth is unknown.[1396] A disciple of Brother Vincent
Ferrier and of Brother Bernardino of Sienna, like them, he taught the
imminent coming of Antichrist and the salvation of the faithful by the
adoration of the holy name of Jesus.[1397] After having been on a
pilgrimage to Jerusalem, he returned to France, and preached at
Troyes, during the Advent of 1428. Advent, sometimes called Saint
Martin's Lent, begins on the Sunday which falls between the 27th of
November and the 3rd of December. It lasts four weeks, which
Christians spend in making themselves ready to celebrate the mystery
of the Nativity.

[Footnote 1396: Ed. Richer says his name was Roch Richard and that he
was licentiate in theology. _Histoire manuscrite de la Pucelle_ (Bibl.
Nat. fr. 10448), book 1, folios 50 _et seq._ Simeon Luce, _Jeanne
d'Arc a Domremy_ (chap. x, Jeanne d'Arc et frere Richard).]

[Footnote 1397: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p. 235. Th. Basin,
_Histoire de Charles VII et de Louis XI_, vol. i, p. 104. Vallet de
Viriville, _Proces de condamnation de Jeanne d'Arc_, 1867.
Introduction, _Notes sur deux medailles de plomb relatives a Jeanne
d'Arc_, Paris, 1861, p. 22