59, _post_, pp.

177, 178.] Touching things spiritual Jeanne held converse with several priests; among others with Messire Arnolin, of Gondrecourt-le-Chateau, and Messire Dominique Jacob, priest of Moutier-sur-Saulx, who was her confessor.[339] It is a pity we do not know what these ecclesiastics thought of the insatiable cruelty of the English, of the pride of my Lord Duke of Burgundy, of the misfortunes of the Dauphin, and whether they did not hope that one day Our Lord Jesus Christ at the prayer of the common folk would condescend to grant the kingdom _en commande_ to Charles, son of Charles.

It was possibly from one of these that Jeanne derived her theocratic ideas.[340] [Footnote 339: _Trial_, vol.ii, pp.

392, 393, 458, 459.] [Footnote 340: As for Nicolas de Vouthon, priest of the Abbey of Cheminon, what is stated concerning him in the evidence of the 2nd and 3rd November, 1476, seems improbable.

_Trial_, vol.v, p.252.