would do so, because it was at the bidding of God.”  Asked, if she had done it by the orders of Robert de Baudricourt, answered “No.”  Asked, if she thought that she had done well in assuming a man’s dress, answered, that as all she did was by the command of the Lord, she believed that she had done well, and expected a good guarantee and good succour.  Asked, if in this particular case of assuming the dress of a man she thought she had done well, answered, that nothing in the world had made her do it, but the command of God.

She was then asked whether light always accompanied the voices when they came to her, she answered, with an evident reference to her first interview with Charles, that there were many lights on every side as was fit.  “It is not only to you that light comes” (or you have not all the light to yourself,—­a curious phrase).  Asked, if there was an angel over the head of the King when she saw him for the first time, she answered:  “By the Blessed Mary, if there were, I know not, I saw none.”  Asked, if there was light, she answered:  “There were about three hundred soldiers, and fifty of them held torches, without counting any spiritual light.  And rarely do I have the revelations without light.”  Asked, if her King had faith in what she said, she answered, that he had good signs, and also by his clergy.  Asked, what revelations her King had, she answered:  “You shall have nothing from me this year.”  Then added that for three weeks she was cross-examined by the clergy, both in the town of Chinon and at Poitiers, and that her King had signs concerning her, before he believed in her.  And the clergy of his party had found nothing in her, in respect to her faith, that was not good.  Asked, whether she gone to the church of St. Catherine of Fierbois, answered:  “yes,” and that she had there heard three masses in one day, and from thence went to Chinon; she added that she had sent a letter thence to the King, in which it was contained that she sent this to know if she might come to the town in which the King was; for that she had travelled a hundred and fifty leagues to come to him and to bring him help, for she knew much good concerning him.  And she thought it was contained in this letter that she should recognise the King among all the rest.

She said besides, that she had a sword which was given to her at Vaucouleurs; she said also that, being in Tours or at Chinon, she sent for a sword which was in the church of St. Catherine of Fierbois behind the altar, and that when it was found it was rusty.  Asked, how she knew about this sword, she answered, that it was rusty because of being in the ground, and there were five crosses on it, and that she knew this sword by her voices, and not by any man’s report.  She wrote to the ecclesiastics of the place where it was and asked them for this sword, and they sent it to her.  It was found not much below the ground behind the altar; she was not sure if it was before or behind the altar, but wrote that