sides fear, which undoubtedly assisted in keeping him to his post-Winchester assigned him twenty gold sous for his pains. Perhaps, the Mendicant

monk had never seen such a quantity of gold in his life.

TRIAL OF THE PUCELLE.

On February 21, the Pucelle was brought before her judges. The bishop of Beauvais admonished her "with mildness and charity," praying her to answer truly to whatever she should be asked, without evasion or subterfuge, both to shorten her trial and ease her conscience. swer. "I do not know what you mean to question me about, you might ask me things which I would not tell you." She consented to swear to speak the truth upon all matters, except those which related to her visions; "But,

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with respect to these," she said, "you shall cut off my head first." Nevertheless, she was induced to swear that she would answer all questions 66 on points affecting faith."

She was again urged on the following day, the 22d, and again on the 24th, but held firm. "It is a common remark even in children's mouths," was her observation, "that people are often hung for telling the truth." At last, worn out, and for quietness' sake, she consented to swear" to tell what she knew upon her trial, but not all she knew."

Interrogated as to her age, name, and surname, she said that she was about nineteen years old. "In the place where I was born,* they called

*Domremy in Champagne, on the frontiers of Burgundy would be distinguished in Joan's time from France Proper.-TRANSLATOR.

me Jehanette, and in France Jehanne.

But, with regard to her surname (the Pucelle, the maid), it seems, that through some caprice of feminine modesty she could not bring herself to utter it, and that she eluded the direct. answer by a chaste falsehood—" As to surname, I know nothing of it."

She complained of the fetters on her limbs; and the bishop told her that as she had made several attempts to escape, they had been obliged to put them on. "It is true," she said, "I have done so, and it is allowable for any prisoner. If I escaped, I could not be raproached with having broken my word, for I had given no promise."

She was ordered to repeat the Pater and the Ave, perhaps in the supersti tious idea that if she were vowed to the devil she durst not-"I will willingly repeat them if my lord of Beau

vais will hear me confess:" adroit and touching demand; by thus reposing her confidence in her judge, her enemy, she would have made him both her spiritual father and the witness of her innocence.

Cauchon declined the request; but I can well believe that he was moved by it. He broke up the sitting for that day, and on the day following did not continue the interrogatory himself, but deputed the office to one of his assessors.

At the fourth sitting she displayed unwonted animation. She did not conceal her having heard her voices: They awakened me," she said, "I clasped my hands in prayer, and besought them to give me counsel; they said to me, Ask of our Lord.'" "And what more did they say?""To answer you boldly."

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I cannot tell all; I am much

more fearful of saying any thing which may displease them, than I am of answering you. For to-day, I beg you to question me no further."

The bishop, perceiving her emotion, persisted: "But, Jehanne, God is of fended, then, if one tells true things?"

"My voices have told me certain things, not for you, but for the king." Then she added, with fervor, "Ah! if he knew them, he would eat his dinner with greater relish. .. Would that he did know them, and would drink no wine from this to Easter."

She gave utterance to some sublime things, while prattling in this simple strain: "I come from God, I have naught to do here; dismiss me to God, from whom I come. . .

"You say that you are my judge; think well what you are about, for of