[Taken from _La revue archeologique_] N.Valois, _Un nouveau temoignage sur Jeanne d'Arc_, pp.

8, 13.Cf.Appendix iv.] "O God, author of peace, who without bow or arrow dost destroy those enemies who hope in themselves,[1152] we beseech thee O Lord, to protect us in our adversity; and, as Thou hast delivered Thy people by the hand of a woman, to stretch out to Charles our King, Thy conquering arm, that our enemies, who make their boast in multitudes and glory in bows and arrows, may be overcome by him at this present, and vouchsafe that at the end of his days he with his people may appear gloriously before Thee who art the way, the truth and the life.

Through Our Lord Jesus Christ, etc."[1153] [Footnote 1152: _Trial_, vol.v, p.104.I read _in se sperantes_.] [Footnote 1153: _Trial_, vol.v, p.104.Lanery d'Arc, _Le culte de Jeanne d'Arc au XV'e siecle_, 1886, in 8vo.] In those days the saintly, both men and women, were consulted in all the difficulties of life.

The more they were deemed simple and innocent the more counsel was asked of them.

For if of themselves they knew nothing then all the surer was it that the voice of God was to be heard in their words.