he summoned her to appear on the morrow, the 30th of May, in the old
Market Square.[2529]

[Footnote 2529: _Ibid._, pp. 467, 469.]

On the morning of that Wednesday, the 30th of May, by the command of
my Lord of Beauvais, the two young friars preachers, bachelors in
theology, Brother Martin Ladvenu and Brother Isambart de la Pierre,
went to Jeanne in her prison. Brother Martin told her that she was to
die that day.

At the approach of this cruel death, amidst the silence of her Voices,
she understood at length that she would not be delivered. Cruelly
awakened from her dream, she felt heaven and earth failing her, and
fell into a deep despair.

"Alas!" she cried, "shall so terrible a fate betide me as that my body
ever pure and intact shall to-day be burned and reduced to ashes? Ah
me! Ah me! Liefer would I be seven times beheaded than thus be burned.
Alas! had I been in the prison of the Church, to which I submitted,
and guarded by ecclesiastics and not by my foes and adversaries, so
woeful a misfortune as this would not have befallen me. Oh! I appeal
to God, the great judge, against this violence and these sore wrongs
with which I am afflicted."[2530]

[Footnote 2530: _Ibid._, vol. ii, pp. 3, 4 (evidence of Brother
Isambart de la Pierre). _Ibid._, p. 8 (evidence of Brother Martin
Ladvenu).]

While she was lamenting, the doctors and masters, Nicolas de
Venderes, Pierre Maurice and Nicolas Loiseleur, entered the prison;
they came by order of my Lord of Beauvais.[2531] On the previous day
thirty-nine counsellers out of forty-two, declaring that Jeanne had
relapsed, had added that they deemed it well she should be reminded of
the terms of her abjuration.[2532] Wherefore, according to the counsel
of these clerics, the Lord Bishop had sent certain learned doctors to
the relapsed heretic and had resolved to come to her himself.

[Footnote 2531: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 481. (In the Introduction I have
given my reasons for regarding the information given after the death
of the Maid as possessing great historical significance.)]

[Footnote 2532: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 462-467.]

She must needs submit to one last examination.

"Do you believe that your Voices and apparitions come from good or
from evil spirits?"

"I know not; but I appeal to my Mother the Church."[2533]

[Footnote 2533: _Ibid._, p. 479. Or "to such of you as are churchmen."
_Ibid._, p. 482 (information furnished after her death).]

Maitre Pierre Mauric