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Updated: June 19, 2025
* An advertisement concerning the Responsio ad Elizabethae edictum, 1592. Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, i. 140. * Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, i. 140.
On the margin of the original document of the MSS. of this examination, written in the prison, the original of which is in the National Library in Paris, we find alongside of this answer of Joan of Arc's the following words: 'Responsio mortifera. Indeed it was an answer of deadliest import; for Joan in asserting that her voices had again spoken to her, and in saying that she had committed a mortal sin by recanting her deeds, had thrown away the only plank of safety left her.
After this answer in the minutes of that day's trial is written by the clerk in the margin of the vellum: 'Superba responsio! That was a testimony of admiration which neither the fears of persecution nor of superstition could prevent from appearing. Nothing more was to be obtained from the prisoner's lips than this declaration, either by private or public examinations.
Illustrissimo Principi Duci de Medina Sidonia. Illustrissime Princeps, literas ab excellentia vestra hodie accepimus: quae vero nostra sit ad illas responsio, nobiles isti viri, qui vestras literas ad nos pertulerunt: plenius declarabunt.
Guillaume Manchon, the reporter, he who wrote superba responsio on his margin, and had written down every word of her long examination his occupation for three months, says that he "never wept so much for anything that happened to himself, and that for a whole month he could not recover his calm."
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