23.] [Footnote 61: L.Jarry, _Le compte de l'armee anglaise au siege d'Orleans_ (1428-1429), Orleans, 1892, in 8vo.] When the evidence given at the second trial has obviously been dressed up to suit the occasion, or even when it is absolutely contrary to the truth, we must blame not only those who gave it, but those who received it.

In its elicitation the latter were too artful.

This evidence has about as much value as the evidence in a trial by the Inquisition.

In certain matters it may represent the ideas of the judges as much as those of the witnesses.
What the judges in this instance were most desirous to establish was that Jeanne had not understood when she was spoken to of the Church and the Pope, that she had refused to obey the Church Militant because she believed the Church Militant to be Messire Cauchon and his assessors.

In short, it was necessary to represent her as almost an imbecile.