re, _Notes sur les juges_, p. 46.]

On the 3rd of January, 1431, by royal decree, King Henry ordered the
Maid to be given up to the Bishop and Count of Beauvais, reserving to
himself the right to bring her before him, if she should be acquitted
by the ecclesiastical tribunal.[2155]

[Footnote 2155: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 18, 19.]

Nevertheless she was not placed in the Church prison, in one of those
dungeons near the Booksellers' Porch, where in the shadow of the
gigantic cathedral there rotted unhappy wretches who had erred in
matters of faith.[2156] There she would have endured sufferings far
more terrible than even the horrors of her military tower. The wrong
the Great Council of England inflicted on Jeanne by not handing her
over to the ecclesiastical powers of Rouen was far less than the
indignity they thereby inflicted on her judges.

[Footnote 2156: A. Sarrazin, _Jeanne d'Arc et la Normandie_, pp. 1771,
1778.]

With the way thus opened before him, the Bishop of Beauvais proceeded
with all the violence one might expect from a Cabochien, albeit that
violence was qualified by worldly arts and canonical knowledge.[2157]
As promoter in the case, that is, as the magistrate who was to conduct
the prosecution, he selected one Jean d'Estivet, called Benedicite,
canon of Bayeux and of Beauvais, Promoter-General of the diocese of
Beauvais. Jean d'Estivet was a friend of the Lord Bishop, and had been
driven out of the diocese by the French at the same time. He was
suspected of hostility to the Maid.[2158] The Lord Bishop appointed
Jean de la Fontaine, master of arts, licentiate of canon law, to be
"councillor commissary" of the trial.[2159] One of the clerks of the
ecclesiastical court of Rouen, Guillaume Manchon, priest, he appointed
first registrar.

[Footnote 2157: J. Quicherat, _Apercus nouveaux_, p. 147. De
Beaurepaire, _Notes sur les juges_, p. 9.]

[Footnote 2158: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 24; vol. iii, p. 162. De
Beaurepaire, _Notes sur les juges_, p. 26. A. Sarrazin, _Jeanne d'Arc
et la Normandie_, p. 220.]

[Footnote 2159: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 25.]

In the course of instructing this official as to what would be
expected of him, the Lord Bishop said to Messire Guillaume:

"You must do the King good service. It is our intention to institute
an elaborate prosecution (_un beau proces_) against this Jeanne."[2160]

[Footnote 2160: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 25; vol. iii, p. 137. A. Sarrazin,
_loc. cit._, pp. 221, 222.]