“Yes, many times and nearly every day. And I asked of my Voices that, when I should be taken, I might die soon, without long suffering in prison; and they said to me: ‘Be resigned to all—thus it must be.’ But they did not tell me the time; and if I had known it, I should not have gone. Often I asked to know the hour: they never told me.” “Did your Voices command you to make this sally from Compiègne, and signify that you would be taken if you went?” “If I had known the hour when I should be taken, I should never have gone of mine own free-will; I should always have obeyed their commands in the end, whatever might happen to me.” “When you made this sally from Compiègne had you any Voice or revelation about making it?” “That day I did not know at all that I should be taken, and I had no other command to go forth; but they had always told me it was necessary for me to be taken prisoner.” “When you made this sally, did you pass by the Bridge of Compiègne?” “I passed by the bridge and the boulevard, and went with the company of followers of my side against the followers of my Lord of Luxembourg. I drove them back twice against the camp of the Burgundians, and the third time, to the middle of the highway. The English who were there then cut off the road from me and my people, between us and the boulevard. For this reason, my followers retreated, and, in retreating towards the fields, on the Picardy side, near the boulevard, I was taken. Between Compiègne and the place where I was taken there is nothing but the stream and the boulevard with its ditch.” “Did you not have on the banner you carried a representation of the world, painted with two angels, etc.?” “Yes; and I had no other.” “What did this signify, to paint God holding the world, and these angels?” [Illustration: THE BATTLE OF HERRINGS. From a French Manuscript of the XVth Century. ] [Illustration: THE MAID TAKEN PRISONER. ] “Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret told me that I was to take my banner and to carry it boldly, and to have painted on it the King of Heaven. I told my King, much against my will: that is all I can tell of the signification of this painting.” “Have you not a shield and arms?” “I never had one; but my King has granted arms to my brothers,—that is to say, a shield azure, two fleurs-de-lys of gold, and a sword betwixt. These arms I described in this town to a painter, because he asked what arms I bore. The King gave them to my brothers, [to please[62] them,] without request from me and without revelation.” “Had you, when you were taken, a horse, charger, or hackney?” “I was on horseback; the one which I was riding when I was taken was a demi-charger.” “Who had given you this horse?” “My King, or his people, from the King’s money. I had five chargers from the King’s money, without counting my hacks, of which I had more than seven.” “Had you any other riches from your King besides these horses?”