J.--'When I entered the chamber I recognised the King from among all the others, my voices having revealed him to me. I told the King that I wished to go and make war on the English.' B.--'When your voices revealed your King to you, were they accompanied by any light?' Joan made no answer. B.--'Did you see any angel above the figure of the King?' 'Spare me such questions,' pleaded Joan; but the Inquisitor was not to be so easily put off, and repeated the question again and again, until Joan said that the King had also seen visions and heard revelations. 'What were these revelations?' asked the priest. This Joan refused to answer, and told Beaupere that he might, if he liked, send to Charles and ask him. 'Did you expect the King to see you?' then asked the priest. Her answer was that the voice had promised her that the King would soon see her after her arrival. 'And why,' asked Beaupere, 'did he receive you?' 'Those on my side,' said Joan, 'knew well that I was sent by God; they have known and acknowledged that voice.' 'Who?' asked Beaupere. 'The King and others,' answered Joan, 'have heard the voices coming to me. Charles of Bourbon also, and two or three others.' (The Charles of Bourbon was the Count of Clermont.) 'Did you often hear that voice?' asked the priest. 'Not a day passes that I do not hear it,' Joan replied. 'What do you ask of it?' inquired Beaupere. 'I have never,' answered Joan, 'asked for any recompense, except the salvation of my soul.' 'Did the voice always encourage you to follow the army?' 'The voice told me to remain at Saint Denis. I wished to remain, but against my will the knights obliged me to leave. I would have remained had I had my free-will.' 'When were you wounded?' asked Beaupere. 'I was wounded,' Joan answered, 'in the moat before Paris, having gone there from Saint Denis. At the end of five days I recovered.' 'What did you attempt to do against Paris?' Joan answered that she had made one skirmish (_escarmouche_) in front of Paris. 'Was it on a feast day?' asked the priest. 'It was,' replied Joan. And on being asked if she considered it right to make an attack on such a day, she refused to answer. It is plain that the gist of those questions made by Beaupere was to try and make Joan of Arc avow that her voices had given her evil counsel. On the following day the same tactics were pursued. The third meeting of the tribunal was held on the 24th of February, in the same chamber. Sixty-two assessors were present. Again Cauchon commenced by admonishing Joan to tell the truth on all subjects asked her, and again she protested that as far as her revelations were concerned she could give no answers. On Cauchon insisting, she said, 'Take care what you, who are my judge, undertake, for you take a terrible responsibility on yourself, and you presume too far. It is enough,' she added, 'that I have already twice taken the oath.'