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[Footnote 2128: L. de Duranville, _Le chateau de Bouvreuil_, in _La Revue de Rouen_, 1852, p. 387. A. Deville, _La tour de la Pucelle du chateau de Rouen_, in _Precis des travaux de l'Academie de Rouen_, 1865-1866, pp. 236-268. Bouquet, _Notice sur le donjon du chateau de Philippe-Auguste_, Rouen, 1877, pp. 7 _et seq._]

[Footnote 2129: _Trial_, vol. ii, pp. 317, 345; vol. iii, p. 121.]

[Footnote 2130: _Ibid._, p. 154. A. Sarrazin, _Jeanne d'Arc et la Normandie_, p. 190, note 1. L. Delisle, _Revue des Societes savantes_, 1867, 4th series, vol. v, p. 440. F. Bouquet, _Jeanne d'Arc au donjon de Rouen_, in _Revue de Normandie_, 1867, vol. vi, pp. 873-883. L.

Delisle, _Revue des Societes savantes_, vol. v (1867). Lanery d'Arc, pp. 528-533.]

[Footnote 2131: Ballin, _Renseignements sur le Vieux-Chateau de Rouen_, in _Revue de Rouen_, 1842, p. 35. A. Sarrazin, _Jeanne d'Arc et la Normandie_, p. 188.]

[Footnote 2132: _Trial_, vol. ii, p. 7.]

[Footnote 2133: _Ibid._, vol. iii, p. 155.]

[Footnote 2134: _Ibid._, vol. iii, p. 180. A. Sarrazin, pp. 191, 192.]

[Footnote 2135: Vallet de Viriville, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol.

ii, pp. 240, 241.]

[Footnote 2136: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 47.]

[Footnote 2137: _Ibid._, vol. ii, p. 322.]

[Footnote 2138: _Ibid._, vol. ii, pp. 216, 217. J. Quicherat, _Apercus nouveaux_, p. 112.]

[Footnote 2139: _Trial_, vol. ii, p. 18.]

Five English men-at-arms,[2140] common soldiers (_houspilleurs_), guarded the prisoner;[2141] they were not the flower of chivalry. They mocked her and she rebuked them, a circ.u.mstance they must have found consolatory. At night two of them stayed behind the door; three remained with her, and constantly troubled her by saying first that she would die, then that she would be delivered. No one could speak to her without their consent.[2142]

[Footnote 2140: Lea, _A History of the Inquisition in the Middle Ages_ (1906), vol. iii, p. 359.]

[Footnote 2141: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 154.]

[Footnote 2142: _Ibid._, vol. ii, pp. 318, 319; vol. iii, pp. 131, 140, 148, 161. A. Sarrazin, _P. Cauchon_, p. 200.]

Nevertheless folk entered the prison as if it were a fair (_comme au moulin_); people of all ranks came to see Jeanne as they pleased. Thus Maitre Laurent Guesdon, Lieutenant of the Bailie of Rouen, came,[2143]

and Maitre Pierre Manuel, Advocate of the King of England, who was accompanied by Maitre Pierre Daron, magistrate of the city of Rouen.

They found her with her feet in shackles, guarded by soldiers.[2144]

[Footnote 2143: _Trial_, vol. iii, pp. 186, 187.]

[Footnote 2144: _Ibid._, pp. 199, 200.]

Maitre Pierre Manuel felt called upon to tell her that for certain she would never have come there if she had not been brought. Sensible persons were always surprised when they saw witches and soothsayers falling into a trap like any ordinary Christian. The King's Advocate must have been a sensible person, since his surprise appeared in the questions he put to Jeanne.

”Did you know you were to be taken?” he asked her.

”I thought it likely,” she replied.

”Then why,” asked Maitre Pierre again, ”if you thought it likely, did you not take better care on the day you were captured?”