"Do your voices," asked the judges, "forbid you to submit to the Church and the Pope ?" "Ah, no! our Lord first served." Sick, and deprived of all religious aid, it was no wonder that as the long trial dragged on and question followed question Jeanne's firmness wavered.
On the charge of sorcery and diabolical possession she still appealed firmly to God.

"I hold to my Judge," she said, as her earthly judges gave sentence against her, "to the King of Heaven and Earth.

God has always been my Lord in all that I have done.

The devil has never had power over me." It was only with a view to be delivered from the military prison and transferred to the prisons of the Church that she consented to a formal abjuration of heresy.

She feared in fact among the soldiery those outrages to her honour, to guard against which she had from the first assumed the dress of a man.