Joan was treated, according to her own expression in her letter to the English, "as a war-chief;" there were assigned to her a squire, a page, two heralds, a chaplain, Brother Pasquerel, of the order of the hermit-brotherhood of St.Augustin, varlets, and serving-folks.

A complete suit of armor was made to fit her.

Her two guides, John of Metz and Bertrand of Poulengy, had not quitted her; and the king continued them in her train.

Her sword he wished to be supplied by himself; she asked for one marked with five crosses; it would be found, she said, behind the altar in the chapel of St.

Catherine-de-Fierbois, where she had halted on her arrival at Chinon; and there, indeed, it was found.