In the month of March, Jeanne had dictated to one of the doctors at Poitiers a brief manifesto intended for the English.[881] She expanded it into a letter, which she showed to certain of her companions and afterwards sent by a Herald from Blois to the camp of Saint-Laurent-des-Orgerils. This letter was addressed to King Henry, to the Regent and to the three chiefs, who, since Salisbury's death, had been conducting the siege, Scales, Suffolk, and Talbot. The following is the text of it:[882] [Footnote 881: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 74.] [Footnote 882: There are eight ancient texts of this letter: (1) the text used in the Rouen trial (_Trial_, i, p. 240); (2) a text probably written by a Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem; the original document has been lost, but there are two copies dating from the 18th century (_Ibid._, v, p. 95); (3) the text contained in _Le journal du siege_ (_Ibid._, iv, p. 139); (4) the text in _La chronique de la Pucelle_ (_Ibid._, iv, p. 215); (5) the text in Thomassin's _Registre Delphinal_ (_Ibid._, iv, p. 306); (6) the text of the Greffier de La Rochelle (_Revue historique_, vol. iv); (7) the text of the Tournai Chronicle (_Recueil des chroniques de Flandre_, vol. iii, p. 407); (8) the text in _Le mistere du siege_. There may be mentioned also a German contemporary translation by Eberhard Windecke. The text from the _Trial_ is the one quoted here. It is a reproduction of the original. The others differ from it and from original too widely for it to be possible to indicate the differences except by giving the whole of each text. And after all these variations are of no great importance.] [cross symbol] JHESUS MARIA [cross symbol]