Article XXVI. Jeanne, being at Compiègne in August of 1429, did receive from the Count d’Armagnac a letter of which the tenour forms the article which follows.
“What have you to say to this Article?”
“I refer to what I said before.”[[256]]
Article XXVII. Tenour of the said letter.[[257]]
Article XXVIII. To this letter Jeanne did send in answer the letter signed with her name, found in the Articles which follow.
Articles XXIX. and XXX. Letter of Jeanne to the Count d’Armagnac.[[258]]
“What have you to say on these Articles, XXVII., XXVIII., XXIX., XXX., which have been read to you with great care, from the first word to the last?”
“I refer to what I answered on Article XXVI.”[[259]]
Continuation of the Reading of the Articles in Open Court.
[The next day, Wednesday, March 28th, in the same room, near the great Hall of the Castle of Rouen, before the Bishop and Brother Jean Lemaître, assisted by 35 Assessors.]