and soldiers who were terrified by the enchantments of Jeanne d'Arc.

and overmatcht in the conflict she was taken: marie yet (all things accounted) to no small marvell how it could come so to passe, had she beene of any devotion or of true beleefe, and no false miscreant, but all holie as she made it. For earlie that morning she gat hir to saint Jameses church, confessed hir, and received hir Maker (as the booke termes it) and after setting hir selfe to a piller, manie of the townesmen that with a five or six score of their children stood about there to see bir, unto them (quod she) 'Good children and my deere freends, I tell you plaine one hath sold me. I am betraied and shortlie shall be delivered to death: I beseech you praie to God for me, for I shall never have more power to doo service either to the king or to the realme of France againe.'

"Saith another booke, she was intrapt by a Picard capteine of Soissons, who sold that citie to the duke of Burgognie, and he then put it over into the hands of the lord of Lutzenburgh; so by that meanes the Burgognians approched and besieged Campeigne, for succour whereof as damsell Jone with hir capteins from Laignie was thither come, and dailie to the English gave manie a hot skirmish, so happened it on a daie in an outsallie that she inade by a Picard of the lord of Lutzenburgh's band, in the fiercest of hir fight she was taken, and by him by and by to his lord presented, who sold hir over againe to the English, who for witchcraft and sorcerie burnt hir at Rone. Tillet telleth it thus, that she was caught at Campeigne by one of the carle of Ligneis soldiers, from him had to Beavrevoir castell, where kept a three months, she was after for ten thousand pounds in monie and three hundred pounds rent (all Turnois) sold into the English hands.

"In which for hir pranks so uncouth and suspicious, the lord

Shortly after, falling into the hands of her foes, La Pucelle was sold by the bastard of Vendôme

regent by Peter Chauchon bishop of Beauvois (in whose diocesse she was taken) caused hir life and beleefe, after order of law, to be inquired upon and examined. Wherein found, though a virgin, yet first shamefullie rejecting hir sex abominablie in acts and apparell to have counterfeit mankind, and then all damnablie faithlesse, to be a pernicious instrument to hostilitie and bloudshed in divelishe witchcraft and sorcerie, sentence accordinglie was pronounced against hir. Howbeit, upon humble confession of hir iniquities, with a counterfeit contrition, pretending a carefull sorow for the same, execution spared and all mollified into this, that from thencefoorth she should cast off hir unnaturall wearing of man's abilliments, and keepe hir to garments of hir owne kind, abjure hir pernicious practises of sorcerie and witcherie, and have life and leasure in perpetuall prison to bewaile hir misdeeds. Which to performe (according to the maner of abjuration) a solemne oth verie gladlie she tooke.

"But herein, God helpe us, she fullie afore possest of the feend, not able to hold hir in anie towardnesse of grace, falling streight waie into hir former abominations, and yet seeking to eetch out life as long as she might, stake not, though the shift were shamefull, to confesse hir selfe a strumpet, and, unmarried as she was, to be with child. For triall, the lord regent's lenitie gave hir nine moneths staie, at the end whereof she was found herein as false as wicked in the rest, and eight daies after, upon a further definitive sentence declared against hir to be relapse and a renouncer of hir oth and repentance, was she thereupon delivered over to secular power, and so executed by consumption of fire in the old market-place at Rone, in the selfe same steed where now Saint Michael's church stands, hir ashes afterward without the towne wals shaken into the wind.

to Jean of Luxembourg, comte de Ligny, general officer of the duke of Burgundy, to whose sole custody she was in consequence committed. The

Now recounting altogither hir pastorall bringing up, rude without any vertuous instruction, hir campestrall conversation with wicked spirits, whome in hir first salutation to Charles the Dolphin, she uttered to be Our Ladie, Saint Katharine, and Saint Annes, that in this behalfe came and gave hir commandements from God hir maker, as she kept hir father's lambs in the fields, where saints in warres among christen men were (be we sure) never so parciall patrons or partners to maintenance of horrible slaughters, rapines, and bloudshed, hereto hir murtherous mind in killing of Franquet hir owne prisoner, hir two years continuance in hir abominations and deadlie mischiefe, without anie hir travell or motion betweene the princes for peace, hir relapse at last, and falling againe into her abjured iniquities, by hir virginitie, (if it were anie,) by hir holie words, hir fasting and praiers, what they might be, sith Satan (after Saint Paule) can change himselfe into an angell of light, the deeplier to deceive.

"These matters may verie rightfullie denounce unto all the world hir execrable abhominations, and well justifie the judgement she had, and the execution she was put to for the same. A thing yet (God wot) verie smallie shadowed, and lesse holpen by the verie travell of the Dolphin, whose dignitie abroad foulie spotted in this point, that contrarie to the holie degree of a right christen prince, as he called himselfe, for maintenance of his quarels in warre would not reverence to prophane his sacred estate, as dealing in divelish practises with misbeleevers and witches. Which maladie he full sorilie salved, like one that to kill the strong sent of onions would cheaw a clove of garlike, so a six-andtwentie yeares after, he pact with pope Calixt the third, by whose mandat directed to his three delegats, the bishops of Paris,

duke soon after* received an application from one brother Martin, who assumed the title of vicar

Reimes, and Constance, at the cathedrall church of Paris, in presence of Jone, the Pusel's mother, John and Peter hir brethren, the seven-and-twentith daie of November, 1455, the validitie and goodnesse of the processe and sentence upon hir was called in question, and in great solemnitie sit upon.

"Wherein the cause was so sincerelie canvassed among them, that afterward, on the eight of Julie, 1456, a quite contrarie sentence was there declared: of effect, that this Jone, forsooth, was a damsel divine, no fault in the Dolphin for his counsell and witcherie practises with hir; the processe, judgement, and condemnation against hir, all wrong and injurious. And for justification and remembrance as well of hir innocencie in life and death, as also of the sinceritie of their later sentence, a new crosse in that old market to be reared. In this tale of Tillet's is she further likened to Debora, Jahell, and Judith, and unto Romane Clelia compared by Polydor, that shames not somewhat also to carpe at hir judgment, and much pitieth hir paine. But what puritie or regard of devotion or conscience is in these writers, trow yee, who make no consideration of hir heinous enormities, or else any difference betweene one stirred up by mercie divine, or naturall love, and a damnable sorcerer suborned by Satan. And thus much of this gentle Jone, and of hir good oratours that have said so well for hir : now judge as ye list."— Holinshed's Chronicles, folio 604, 605.

There can be no doubt but the capture of Jeanne was deemed an event of the highest importance, since we find it detailed in the Parliamentary Register of Paris in the following words:

"Monday, the 25th of May, 1430, the Chancellor received letters of lord Jean de Luxembourg, his brother, stating, that

general of the inquisition of the faith to the kingdom of France, directing him to place the unfor

on the preceding Tuesday, during a sally made by the troops of Messire Charles de Valois, who was then at Compiegne, against the besiegers encamped before the town, the soldiers of the said Valois were compelled to retreat with such precipitancy, that many of them rushed into the river, the rest being taken, among whom was captured the woman calling herself La Pucelle, who had in their company made the attack on horseback."

It appears from some parts of the process against Jeanne d'Arc, that she was captured beyond the bridge of Compiegne, on the side of Picardy, in the direction of Noyons, and therefore in the diocese of Soissons, contiguous to that of Beauvais, being only separated from thence by the river. In consequence of this, La Pucelle was not subject to the jurisdiction of the bishop of the latter city, but to the prelate of Soissons; and the first unjustifiable act committed against her was her not being tried by the judge of the territory where she was taken. Guillaume de Flavi, supposed to have been instrumental in causing Jeanne to be made prisoner, was subsequently brought to trial on the charge, but escaped punishment, owing to a want of sufficient proof to establish the fact. Notwithstanding this, some historians state that he ultimately received retribution at the hands of his own wife, with whom he lived on very bad terms, and who was the cause of his death; for which she received absolution, after adducing sufficient evidence that her husband had determined on the ruin and sacrifice of this unfortunate girl, and that he had promised the lord de Luxembourg to deliver her up to him; a convention which, from the depositions of La Pucelle, appears scarcely probable, since, according to her own statement, she was captured on the very day of her entrance