the Bishop’s reptile-like imagination, her acts when with the King were reviewed.  She had promised Charles to slay all the English in France; her cruelty and love of bloodshed were insatiable; she had influenced Charles by acts of magic; her banners and her rings were bewitched; she was schismatic, and doubted as to which was the right Pope; and, in spite of this, she had the wickedness to inform the Earl of Armagnac which of the two Popes he was to believe the genuine.  Of all this long tissue of crimes laid to her charge, that of wearing a man’s dress was made the most heinous; for the Almighty had made it a crime abominable to Himself, that woman should wear man’s dress.  Now, not only had the prisoner committed this sin, but she had added to it by affirming that she did so by the wish of God—­she had done even worse; for did she not refuse when at the castle of Beaurevoir to wear woman’s dress, also when at Arras, and even now in Rouen?  So obstinate was she in her wickedness that she had refused to comply with the Bishop’s wish that she should leave off these clothes, although he had told her she would be allowed to assist at the offices of the Church if she would consent to do so.

To all these accusations, at the end of each paragraph, Cauchon bade Courcelles, who read the accusations, to pause, and would then ask the prisoner what answer she had to make to that accusation.  Joan of Arc contented herself by simply denying the alleged crime, or else she referred to the answers she had made to the same, or similar questions, during the former days when under examination.  Some of her replies were, as they often had been during those trials, grand in their simplicity.  For instance, when asked a difficult and even perplexing question relating to her belief in the Church Militant, she said:—­’I believe that the Holy Father, the Bishops, and other clergy, are here for the protection of the Christian faith, and to punish those who deserve it.  As to my acts,’ she continued, ’I submit them to the Church in Heaven, to God, to the Holy Virgin, and the Saints in Paradise.  I have not failed,’ she proudly added, ’in the Christian religion; nor will I ever do so.’

When repeatedly questioned about the change of costume, and of its importance regarding her being allowed to attend Mass or not, she said:  ’In the eyes of the Saviour the dress of those who receive the Sacrament can have no importance.’

On the day after, the 28th of March, the same chamber was used for the trial, and the same indictments were entered on.  That almost interminable series of accusations numbered some seventy charges.  On that day, Joan of Arc appears to have ceased to deny at any length the string of false evidence brought against her; she generally replied that she had already answered as to the crimes laid to her charge, or simply said, ‘I refer myself to my Saviour.’  Two of her answers are worth recording:  the first, when accused of having been guilty not only of discarding