She was tormented a little further as to the dates, whether this would happen before the St. Jean, or before the St. Martin in winter, but made no answer except that before the St. Martin in winter they should see many things, and it might be that the English should fail; as a matter of fact Paris opened its gates to Charles VII. within the seven years specified, so that Jeanne’s prophecy may be held to have been fulfilled.

We then come once more to a long and profitless interrogatory upon her saints, in which the crowd of judges forgot their dignity and overwhelmed her with a flood of often very foolish, and sometimes worse than foolish questions.

Asked, how she knew the future, she answered that she knew it by St. Catherine and St. Margaret; asked, if St. Gabriel was with St. Michael when he came to her, she answered, that she could not remember.  Asked, if she saw them always in the same dress, answered yes, and they were crowned very richly.  Of their other garments she could not speak; she knew nothing of their tunics.  Asked, how she knew whether they were men or women, answered, that she knew well by their voices which revealed them to her; and that she knew nothing save by revelation and the precepts of God.  Asked, what appearances she saw, she answered, that she saw faces.  Asked, if these saints had hair, she answered, “It is good to know.”  Asked, if there was anything between their crowns and their hair, answered, no.  Asked, if their hair was long and hanging down, answered, “I know nothing about it.”  She also said that their voices were beautiful sweet, and humble, and that she understood them well.  Asked, how they could speak when they had no bodies, she answered, “I refer it to God.”  She repeated that the voices were beautiful, humble, and sweet, and that they could speak French.  Asked, if St. Margaret did not speak English, answered:  “How could she speak English when she was not on the English side?”

This would seem to infer that the St. Margaret referred to was not the legendary St. Margaret of the dragon, but St. Margaret of Scotland, well known in France from the long connection between those two countries, and a popular mediaeval saint.  She would naturally have spoken English, being a Saxon, but also quite naturally would have been against the English, as a Scottish queen; but of these refinements it is very unlikely that Jeanne knew anything, and her prompt and somewhat sharp reply evidently cut the inquiry short.  The next question was, did they wear gold rings in their ears or elsewhere, these crowned saints; to which she answered a little contemptuously, “I know nothing about it.”  She was then asked if she herself had rings:  on which “turning to us the aforesaid Bishop, she said, ‘You have one of mine; give it back to me.’  She then said that the Burgundians had her other ring, and asked of us if we had the ring to shew it to her.  Asked, who gave her this ring, answered, her father or her mother, and that the name Jhesus Maria was written upon it, but that she knew not who put it there, nor even whether there was a stone in the ring; it was given to her in the village of Domremy.  She added that her brother gave her another ring which we had, and said that she desired that it might be given to the Church.”