s an act of ecclesiastical jurisdiction. For the
place of its pronouncement the Inquisitor and the Ordinary preferred
consecrated territory, holy ground. True it is that a bull of Pope
Lucius forbade such sentences to be given in churches and cemeteries;
but the judges eluded this rule by recommending the secular arm to
modify its sentence. The third scaffold, opposite the second, was of
plaster, and stood in the middle of the square, on the spot whereon
executions usually took place. On it was piled the wood for the
burning. On the stake which surmounted it was a scroll bearing the
words:

"Jehanne, who hath caused herself to be called the Maid, a liar,
pernicious, deceiver of the people, soothsayer, superstitious, a
blasphemer against God, presumptuous, miscreant, boaster, idolatress,
cruel, dissolute, an invoker of devils, apostate, schismatic, and
heretic."[2555]

[Footnote 2551: A. Sarrazin, _Jeanne d'Arc et la Normandie_, p. 369.]

[Footnote 2552: Bouquet, _Rouen aux differentes epoques de son
histoire_, pp. 25 _et seq._ A. Sarrazin, _Jeanne d'Arc et la
Normandie_, pp. 374, 375. De Beaurepaire, _Memoires sur le lieu du
supplice de Jeanne d'Arc_, with plan of the Old Market Square of Rouen
according to the _Livre de fontaine de 1525_, Rouen, 1867, in 8vo.]

[Footnote 2553: De Beaurepaire, _Note sur la prise du chateau de Rouen,
par Ricarville_, Rouen, 1857, in 8vo, p. 5.]

[Footnote 2554: Bouquet, _Jeanne d'Arc au chateau de Rouen_, p. 25. De
Beaurepaire, _Memoire sur le lieu du supplice de Jeanne d'Arc_, p. 32.
A. Sarrazin, _Jeanne d'Arc et la Normandie_, pp. 376 _et seq._]

[Footnote 2555: _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 459.]

The square was guarded by one hundred and sixty men-at-arms. A crowd
of curious folk pressed behind the guards, the windows were filled and
the roofs covered with onlookers. Jeanne was brought on to the
scaffold which had its back to the market-house gable. She wore a long
gown and hood.[2556] Maitre Nicolas Midi, doctor in theology, came up
on to the same platform and began to preach to her.[2557] As the text
of his sermon he took the words of the Apostle in the first Epistle to
the Corinthians:[2558] "And whether one member suffer, all the members
suffer with it." Jeanne patiently listened to the sermon.[2559]

[Footnote 2556: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 470; vol. ii, pp. 14, 303, 328;
vol. iii, pp. 159, 173.]

[Footnote 2557: _Ibid._, vol. i, p. 470; vol. ii, p. 334; vol. iii, pp.
53, 114, 159