She asked for tidings of her letter and learnt that the English captains had paid no heed to it, and had detained her herald, Guyenne.[971] This is what had happened: [Footnote 971: _Trial_, vol.iii, pp.

27, 108.

_Journal du siege_, p.
79.] That letter, which the Bastard deemed couched in vulgar phrase, produced a marvellous impression on the English.

It filled them with fear and rage.

They kept the herald who had brought it; and, although use and custom insisted on the person of such officers being respected, alleging that a sorceress's messenger must be a heretic, they put him in chains, and after some sort of a trial condemned him to be burnt as the accomplice of the seductress.[972] [Footnote 972: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.284._Trial_, vol.iii, pp.