[Footnote 915: _Trial_, vol. iii, pp. 5, 67, 78, 105, 212. Martial d'Auvergne, _ibid._, vol. v, p. 53. _Chronique de la fete_, _ibid._, p. 290. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 281. Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i, p. 71. Boucher de Molandon, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc_, pp. 38 _et seq._] [Footnote 916: The 28th of April, according to Eberhard Windecke, p. 165. The 27th, if, as Pasquerel says, the army spent two nights on the march.] [Footnote 917: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 105.] [Footnote 918: Eberhard Windecke, p. 167.] [Footnote 919: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 104 (Brother Pasquerel's evidence).] That night they encamped in the fields. Jeanne, who had not been willing to take off her armour, awoke aching in every limb.[920] She heard mass and received communion from her chaplain, and exhorted the men-at-arms always to confess their sins.[921] Then the army resumed its march towards Orleans. [Footnote 920: _Ibid._, p. 67 (evidence of Louis de Coutes).] [Footnote 921: _Ibid._, p. 67. Pasquerel says (vol. iii, p. 105) that the soldiers of fortune were permitted to join the congregation if they had confessed.] CHAPTER XII THE MAID AT ORLEANS On the evening of Thursday, the 28th of April, Jeanne was able to discern from the heights of Olivet the belfries of the town, the towers of Saint-Paul and Saint-Pierre-Empont, whence the watchmen announced her approach. The army descended the slopes towards the Loire and stopped at the Bouchet wharf, while the carts and the cattle continued their way along the bank as far as l'Ile-aux-Bourdons, opposite Checy, two and a half miles further up the river.[922] There the unloading was to take place. At a signal from the watchmen my Lord the Bastard, accompanied by Thibaut de Termes and certain other captains, left the town by the Burgundian Gate, took a boat at Saint-Jean-de-Braye, and came down to hold counsel with the Lords de Rais and de Lore, who commanded the convoy.[923] [Footnote 922: _Trial_, vol. iii, pp. 4, 5. Boucher de Molandon, _Bulletin de la Societe archeologique de l'Orleanais_, vol. iv, p. 427; vol. ix, p. 73. The same author, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc_, pp. 41 _et seq._ _Mistere du siege_, lines 11,480 _et seq._ _Chronique de l'etablissement de la fete_, in _Trial_, vol. v, p. 289.] [Footnote 923: _Journal du siege_, p. 75. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 283.] [Illustration: PLAN D'ORLEANS Siege de 1429]