hall of the castle for another interview with her tormentors.  When she was led into the hall it was full, as in the first sitting, sixty-three judges in all being present.  The interest had flagged or the pity had grown as the trial dragged its slow length along; but now, when every day the verdict was expected from Paris, the interest had risen again.  On her way from her prison to the hall, it was necessary to pass the door of the castle chapel:  and here once or twice Massieu, the officer of the court, had permitted her to pause and kneel down as she passed.  This was all the celebration of the Paschal Feast that was permitted to Jeanne.  The compassionate official, however, was discovered in this small service of charity, and sternly reprimanded and threatened.  Henceforward she had to pass without even a longing look through the door at the altar on which was the holy sacrament.

She came in on the renewed sitting of the 2d May to find the assembled priests settling themselves, after the address which had been made to them, to hear another address which John de Chasteillon, Archdeacon, had prepared for herself, in which he said much that was good both for body and soul, to which she consented.  He had a list of twelve articles in his hands, and explained and expounded them to her, as they were the occasion of the sitting.  He then “admonished her in charity,” explaining that those who were faithful to Christ hold firmly and closely to the Christian creed, and adjuring her to consent and to amend her ways.  To this Jeanne answered:  “Read your book,” meaning the schedule held by Monseigneur the Archdeacon, “and then I will answer you.  I refer myself to God my master in all things; and I love Him with all my heart.”

To read this book, however, was precisely what Monseigneur the Archdeacon had no intention of doing.  She was never allowed to hear the twelve articles upon which the verdict against her was founded; but the speaker gave her a long discourse by way of explanation, following more or less the schedule which he held.  This “monition general,” however, elicited no detailed reply from Jeanne, who answered briefly with some impatience, “I refer myself to my judge, who is the King of Heaven and earth.”  The “Lord Archdeacon” then proceeded to “monitions particulares.”

It was then once more explained to her that this reference to God alone was a refusal to submit to the Church militant, and she was instructed in the authority of the Church, which it was the duty of every Christian to believe—­unam sanctam Ecclesiam always guided by the Holy Spirit and which could not err, to the judgment of which every question should be referred.  She answered:  “I believe in the Church here below; but my doings and sayings, as I have already said, I refer and submit to God.  I believe that the Church militant cannot err or fail; but as for my deeds and words I put them all before God, who has made me do that which I have done”; she also said that she submitted herself to God, her Creator, who had made her do everything, and referred everything to Him, and to Him alone.