Several versions of the reasons which caused Jeanne to resume the forbidden dress were given in the evidence taken at the Rehabilitation, all purporting to have come from her. According to Massieu, her woman’s dress was taken away while she was asleep, and the English soldiers refused to give it back to her, offering in its stead the man’s dress she had previously worn, ‘which they emptied from a sack.’ She refused to wear it, reminding them that it was forbidden her; but at last, at mid-day, finding them deaf to her remonstrance, she was obliged to rise and attire herself in the prohibited garments. The Dominican Brothers declared that she had been assaulted by an English milord, as she told them, and that she therefore considered it necessary to return to the protection of her old dress; but considering the type of soldier in whose care she was placed, there seems no need to seek for any further explanation than her own, as given in the text, and as later corroborated by Manchon and De Courcelles. In the Rehabilitation Enquiry, both Jean de Metz and de Poulengey claim to have suggested the male attire. At Poitiers, Jeanne herself stated that she had adopted it as most suitable to her work and the company she must share. Footnote 100: This request is found only in the Minute. Footnote 101: In the margin, the Registrar has written against this answer: “_Responsio mortifera_.” Footnote 102: An appointment equivalent to a Rural Dean. Footnote 103: Brothers Ysambard de la Pierre and Martin Ladvenu. Footnote 104: Not included in the Official Text of the Trial. PART II THE REHABILITATION _In the following Enquiries and Depositions, it has been considered advisable, in order to avoid unnecessary repetitions, to give extracts only from certain of the Depositions. The names of all witnesses are given in full, and no evidence of importance is omitted._ _In the Original, the whole of the first Enquiry is in French, the second and third are in Latin._ _An Introductory Note to the Rehabilitation will be found in the Appendix on p. 371._ [Illustration: PORTE S^T. HONORÉ] THE FIRST ENQUIRY: 1449. [_The King’s Rescript, being a Letter of Commission to Maître Guillaume Bouillé, was granted by Charles VII., for an Enquiry into the case of Jeanne d’Arc._] EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES. BROTHER JEAN TOUTMOUILLÉ, _of the Order of Saint Dominic, (Examined, 5th day of March), 1449_.[105]