e city servant, Jacques Leprestre, as now presented it.[1894]

[Footnote 1891: _Trial_, vol. v, p. 270.]

[Footnote 1892: _Ibid._, vol. iii, pp. 19, 74, 203. H. Daniel Lacombe,
_L'hote de Jeanne d'Arc a Poitiers, Maitre Jean Rabateau, president du
parlement de Paris_, in _Revue du Bas-Poitou_, 1891, pp. 48, 66.]

[Footnote 1893: _Trial_, vol. iii, pp. 88 _et seq._]

[Footnote 1894: Extract from the Accounts of the town of Orleans, in
_Trial_, vol. v, p. 331.]

The standard that Jeanne loved even more than her Saint Catherine's
sword had been painted at Tours by one Hamish Power. He was now
marrying his daughter Heliote; and when Jeanne heard of it, she sent a
letter to the magistrates of Tours, asking them to give a sum of one
hundred crowns for the bride's trousseau. The nuptials were fixed for
the 9th of February, 1430. The magistrates assembled twice to
deliberate on Jeanne's request. They described her honourably and yet
not without a certain caution as "the Maid who hath come into this
realm to the King, concerning the matter of the war, announcing that
she is sent by the King of Heaven against the English." In the end
they refused to pay anything, because, they said, it behoved them to
expend municipal funds on municipal matters and not otherwise; but
they decided that for the affection and honour they bore the Maid, the
churchmen, burgesses, and other townsfolk should be present in the
church at the wedding, and should offer prayers for the bride and
present her with bread and wine. This cost them four _livres_, ten
_sous_.[1895]

[Footnote 1895: Vallet de Viriville, _Un episode de la vie de Jeanne
d'Arc_, in _Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes_, vol. iv (1st
series), p. 488. _Trial_, vol. v, pp. 154-156.]

At a time which it is impossible to fix exactly the Maid bought a
house at Orleans. To be more precise she took it on lease.[1896] A
lease (_bail a vente_) was an agreement by which the proprietor of a
house or other property transferred the ownership to the lessee in
return for an annual payment in kind or in money. The duration of such
leases was usually fifty-nine years. The house that Jeanne acquired in
this manner belonged to the Chapter of the Cathedral. It was in the
centre of the town, in the parish of Saint-Malo, close to the
Saint-Maclou Chapel, next door to the shop of an oil-seller, one Jean
Feu, in the Rue des Petits-Souliers. It was in this street that,
during the siege, there had fallen