because they had required it of her.  And the same Jeanne had done this at their request.  “Too many people would have asked me concerning it, if I had not promised to the aforesaid saints.”  She was then asked, when she showed this sign to the King if there were others with him; she answered, that to her there was no one near him, even though many people might have been present. (As a matter of fact the sign was given to Charles when he talked with the Maid apart in a recess, the great hall being full of the Court and followers; so that this was strictly true.) Asked further, if she saw a crown over the head of her King when she showed him this sign, but replied:  “I cannot answer you without perjury.”  Asked further if her King had a crown when he was at Rheims, answered, that in her opinion her King had a crown which he found at Rheims, but a very fine one was afterwards brought for him.  He did this to hasten matters, at the desire of the city of Rheims; but if he had been more certain, he could have had a crown a thousand times richer.  (All this is very obscure.)

Asked, if she had seen this crown, she answered:  “I could not tell you without perjury, but I heard that it was a very rich one.”  It was then determined to conclude for this day.

On the sixth day there was again the same questions about the oath, ending in the usual way.  And the cross-examination was at once continued.

She was asked if she would say whether St. Michael had wings, and what bodies and members had St. Catherine and St. Margaret; and she answered, “I have told you what I know, and will make no other reply”; she said, moreover, that when she saw St. Michael and St. Catherine and St. Margaret, she knew at once that they were saints of Paradise.  Asked, if she saw anything more than their faces, she answered:  “I have told you all I know of them:  and I would rather have had my head taken off than tell you all I know.”  She then said that in whatever concerned the trial she would speak freely.  Asked, if she believed that St. Michael and St. Gabriel had natural heads, she answered:  “I saw them with my eyes and I believe that they are, as firmly as I believe that God is.”  Asked, if she believed that God made them in the form in which she saw them, she answered, “Yes.”  Asked, if she believed that God had created them in the same form from the beginning, answered:  “You shall have no more for the present, except what I have already said.”

This subject was then dropped, and the examiner made another leap forward to a different part of her life.  “Did you know by revelation that you should break prison?” he said.  To this Jeanne answered indignantly:  “This has nothing to do with your trial.  Would you have me speak against myself?”