1804.]  Manufcripts inthe Library of the late King of France. 
which you cannot know for three months 
yet.* [have not been influenced by any 
motive of intereft. What my brothers may 
have received from the liberality of the 
king, I did notafk from him. As to my- 
felf, I had nothing more than the ftate 
which he provided for me, and the money 
neceflary to pay the foldiers. If I was 
engaged in military bufinefs on certain holy 
days, as the Nativity of the Holy Virgin, 
it was becaufe the fervice of the king re- 
quired it. I was informed by the two 
Saintsin the laft Eafter Week (1430), that. 
I thould be taken prifoner before the Featt 
of Saint John, and not to frighten myfelf, 
but to fubmit, and that God would aid me. 
This they repeated to me many times. I 
intreated them to folicit for me death 
rather than confinement. ‘They ordered 
me to fubmit myfelf in all things, and that 
it muft be as they-had faid. From that 
moment I gave no more orders, but obey- 
ed the officers in all things, and if I had 
known the day on which I fhould have 
.been taken, I would not have joined the 
fortie from Compeigne, where I was made 
prifoner. Further, I have never prophe- 
fyed events, nor poured ointment upon 
infants to foretel their good or bad for- 
tune; and if I have held children at the 
.baptifmal font, I have done nothing more 
than to give to the boys the name of the 
_ King, and to the girls fometimes the name 
of Joon, as the mothers defired. 
*¢ It is true that, after remaining for 
four months a prifoner in the tower of 
Beaurevoir, I was in defpair at learning 
that I was about to be delivered up to the 
Englith, and that they were coming to 
feize upon me. The fear which I bad of 
them induced me, notwithftanding I was 
forbid by the two Saints, and in fpite of 
the heighth of the tower, to leap down 
from the top in order to fave mytelf, by 
which I received a fevere wound. I was 
induced to do it, becaufe I preferred death 
to falling into their hands, but I fill hope 
that J fhall not perifh. I recommended 
my foul to God and croffed myfelf before 
I took the leap. I did not think I fhould 
kill myfeif in doing it, but I hoped to 
efcape from falling into the hands of the 
Englifh. When my fenfes returned, after 
the fall, I did not as you pretend, blaf- 
pheme God and the Saints, for I have 
never been in the habit of fwearing. Saint 
Catherine told me that Compeigne would 
be relieved,+ and that I ought to put on 
* Joan never told what this fourth was, 
+ This was aétually the cafe. 
Monruix Mac, No, 123, 
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a good countenance. She added that I 
had committed a great fin in thus preci- 
pitating myfelf from the tower, after fhe 
had forbid me; but I confeffed for it, and 
fhe aflured me that my fin would be for- 
given. I know not what to anfwer to 
your queftion, whether I believe myfelf 
capable to commit mortal fin, except that 
I know nothing about it, and that J refer 
myfelf intirely to God. 
“© There is not a fingle day that I do 
not hear the Saints fpeaking to me in my 
prifon, and I follow their advice in every 
thing, becaufe they come to me from God, 
and { have never faid or done any thing, 
“up to this day, but by their direction. 
They revealed to me, on the fecond day of 
my examination, many things concerning 
the King, of which I much with he were 
informed. I deprived myfelf of drink- 
ing in wine the King’s health, accord- 
ing to what was faid to me by the two 
Saints. I do not know whether they 
would, as you fuggeft to me, charge them- 
felves with informing the King of thofe 
things. I am ignorant whether he has 
any revelations, but if he has not, it 1s no 
doubt the will of God, and I have nothing 
more to do with it. 
‘* I will refufe always to anfwer upon 
any thing which regards the King and 
Queen of France. I have not iworn to 
{peak the truth, but with refpect to what 
regards this trial, and what relates to 
them, forms no part of it, but I am very 
certaim that the King will recover the 
whole kingdom of France. ; 
s¢ You afk me if I believe myfelf ina 
ftate of grace in alledging that the juft fin 
feven times a day? I an{wer, that yp! 
am not, I pray God to put me in it; and, 
if Iam, that he will keep me fo; for I 
would prefer death fooner than not be in 
the love of God, but I believe that if E 
were not, the two Saints would not,come 
to vifit me, and I would defire that many 
perfons fhouJd hear them when they-come 
to vifit me. When I have need of them, I 
pray to God that he will fend them, ad- 
drefling to him a prayer of this nature— 
Moff merciful God, in honour of thy holy 
pafion, I intreat, if thou love. me, that 
thou wilt reveal to me how I fhould an- 
fewer thefe men of the church. I know 
well how I came to take the habit I wear, 
but am ignorant in what manner I fhould 
leave it off. In this, pleafe to infiruck me. 
The Saints then prefently appear to me, 
They have always told me¢ to anfwer you 
boldly, and that God would aid me. 
They told me alfo that I fhould fee the 
Rr King 
