f Charles VI who is to be brought to justice. Wherefore are
assembled so many croziered and mitred abbots, so many renowned
doctors and masters.

[Footnote 2165: Eymeric, _Directorium Inquisitorium_, quest. 85. J.
Quicherat, _Apercus nouveaux_, p. 109. De Beaurepaire, _Notes sur les
juges_, p. 9.]

[Footnote 2166: De Beaurepaire, _Recherches...._ pp. 321 _et seq._]

[Footnote 2167: De Beaurepaire, _Notes sur les juges_, pp. 27-114. J.
Quicherat, _Apercus nouveaux_, pp. 103, 104. Boucher de Molandon,
_Guillaume Erard l'un des juges de la Pucelle_, in _Bulletin du comite
hist. and phil._, 1892, pp. 3-10.]

[Footnote 2168: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 30, note. Du Boulay, _Historia
Universitatis, Paris_, vol. v, pp. 912, 920. J. Quicherat, _Apercus
nouveaux_, p. 105. De Beaurepaire, _Notes_, pp. 30, 31. A. Sarrazin,
_loc. cit._, pp. 226, 227.]

Nevertheless, there were other bright and shining lights of the
Church, whom the Bishop of Beauvais neglected to summon. He consulted
the two bishops of Coutances and Lisieux; he did not consult the
senior bishop of Normandy, the Bishop of Avranches, Messire Jean de
Saint-Avit, whom the chapter of the cathedral had charged with the
duty of ordination throughout the diocese during the vacancy of the
see of Rouen. But Messire Jean de Saint-Avit was considered and
rightly considered to favour King Charles.[2169] On the other hand
those English doctors and masters, residing at Rouen, who had been
consulted in Segueut's trial, were not consulted in that of
Jeanne.[2170] The doctors and masters of the University of Paris, the
abbots of Normandy, the chapter of Rouen, held firmly to the Treaty of
Troyes; they were as prejudiced as the English clerks against the Maid
and the Dauphin Charles, and they were less suspected; it was all to
the good.[2171]

[Footnote 2169: _Trial_, vol. ii, pp. 5, 6. De Beaurepaire, _Notes_,
pp. 121-125. A. Sarrazin, _loc. cit._, pp. 308-310.]

[Footnote 2170: De Beaurepaire, _Recherches_, pp. 321 _et seq._]

[Footnote 2171: J. Quicherat, _Apercus nouveaux_, p. 101.]

On Tuesday, the 9th of January, my Lord of Beauvais summoned eight
councillors to his house: the abbots of Fecamp and of Jumieges, the
prior of Longueville, the canons Roussel, Venderes, Barbier,
Coppequesne and Loiseleur.

"Before entering upon the prosecution of this woman," he said to them,
"we have judged it good, maturely and fully to confer with men learned
and skilled in law, human and di