, these worthy doctors grew pale. The Prior of
Longueville was awaiting an opportunity to make an apology to the
Cardinal of Winchester.[2493]

[Footnote 2492: _Ibid._, p. 123.]

[Footnote 2493: _Trial_, vol. ii, p. 361. J. Quicherat, _Apercus
nouveaux_, p. 135.]

On the platform a chaplain of the Cardinal violently accused the Lord
Bishop. "You do wrong to accept such an abjuration. 'Tis a mere
mockery," he said.

"You lie," retorted my Lord Pierre. "I, the judge of a religious suit,
ought to seek the salvation of this woman rather than her death."

The Cardinal silenced his chaplain.[2494]

[Footnote 2494: _Trial_, vol. iii, pp. 147, 156.]

It is said that the Earl of Warwick came up to the judges and
complained of what they had done, adding: "The King is not well
served, since Jeanne escapes."

And it is stated that one of them replied: "Have no fear, my Lord. She
will not escape us long."[2495]

[Footnote 2495: _Ibid._, vol. ii, p. 376.]

It is hardly credible that any one should have actually said so, but
doubtless there were many at that time who thought it.

With what scorn must the Bishop of Beauvais have regarded those dull
minds, incapable of understanding the service he was rendering to Old
England by forcing this damsel to acknowledge that all she had
declared and maintained in honour of her King was but lying and
illusion.

With a pen that Massieu gave her Jeanne made a cross at the bottom of
the deed.[2496]

[Footnote 2496: _Ibid._, p. 17; vol. iii, p. 164.]

In the midst of howls and oaths from the English, my Lord of Beauvais
read the more merciful of the sentences. It relieved Jeanne from
excommunication and reconciled her to Holy Mother Church.[2497] Further
the sentence ran:

"... Because thou hast rashly sinned against God and Holy
Church, we, thy judges, that thou mayest do salutary
penance, out of our Grace and moderation, do condemn thee
finally and definitely to perpetual prison, with the bread
of sorrow and the water of affliction, so that there thou
mayest weep over thy offences and commit no other that may
be an occasion of weeping."[2498]

[Footnote 2497: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 450, 452.]

[Footnote 2498: _Ibid._, p. 452.]

This penalty, like all other penalties, save death and mutilation, lay
within the power of ecclesiastical judges. They inflicted it so
frequently that in the early days of the Holy Inquisition, the Fathers
of the C