But even then we must examine whether it be that mystery the text of which has come down to us.
[Footnote 25: _Mystere du Siege d'Orleans_, first published by MM.

F.
Guessard and E.de Certain, Paris, 1862, 4to, according to the only manuscript, which is preserved in the Vatican Library .-- _Cf._ _Etude sur le mystere du siege d'Orleans_, by H.Tivier, Paris, 1868, 8vo.] [Footnote 26: _Trial_, vol.v, p.

309.] [Footnote 27: The Abbe E.Bossard and de Maulde, _Gilles de Rais, Marechal de France, dit Barbe-Bleue_ (1404-1440), 2nd edition, Paris, 1886, 8vo, pp.

94-113.] [Footnote 28: _Un estandart et banniere qui furent a Monseigneur de Reys pour faire la maniere de l'assault comment les Tourelles furent prinses sur les Anglois Mistere du siege_, p.

viii.] Among the one hundred and forty speaking personages in this work is the Marechal de Rais.