The subject of the flags and banners used by her during her campaigns was now entered on.
Had her standards not been copied by the men-at-arms?
'They did so at their pleasures,' she answered.
'Of what material was the banner made? If the poles were broken, were they renewed?'
'They were,' she answered, 'when broken.'
'Did you not,' asked Beaupère, 'say that the flags made like your banners were of good augury?'
'What I said,' answered Joan, 'to my soldiers was, that they should attack the enemy with boldness.'
'Did you not sprinkle holy water on the banners?'
To this question Joan refused to answer.
Next she was questioned about a certain Friar Richard, the preaching friar who had seen her at Troyes. She answered that he came to her making the sign of the Cross, and that she told him to come up to her without fear.