4]

[Footnote 2564: _Ibid._, vol. iii, p. 56.]

Many of the bystanders wept. A few English laughed. Certain of the
captains, who could make nothing of the edifying ceremonial of
ecclesiastical justice, grew impatient. Seeing Messire Massieu in the
pulpit and hearing him exhort Jeanne to make a good end, they cried:

"What now, priest! Art thou going to keep us here to dinner?"[2565]

[Footnote 2565: _Trial_, vol. ii, pp. 6, 20; vol. iii, pp. 53, 177,
186.]

At Rouen, when a heretic was given up to the secular arm, it was
customary to take him to the town hall, where the town council made
known unto him his sentence.[2566] In Jeanne's case these forms were
not observed. The Bailie, Messire le Bouteiller, who was present,
waved his hand and said: "Take her, take her."[2567] Straightway, two
of the King's sergeants dragged her to the base of the scaffold and
placed her in a cart which was waiting. On her head was set a great
fool's cap made of paper, on which were written the words:
"_Heretique, relapse, apostate, idolatre_"; and she was handed over to
the executioner.[2568]

[Footnote 2566: _Ibid._, vol. iii, p. 188. A. Sarrazin, _Jeanne d'Arc
et la Normandie_, p. 386. Guedon and Ladvenu added to their evidence
that not long afterwards a certain Georges Folenfant was also given up
to the secular arm. But the Archbishop and the Inquisitor sent Ladvenu
to the Bailie "in order to warn him that the said Georges was not to
be treated like the Maid who was burned without the pronouncement of
any definite and final sentence." _Trial_, vol. ii, p. 9.]

[Footnote 2567: _Ibid._, p. 344.]

[Footnote 2568: Falconbridge, in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 459. Yet Martin
Ladvenu says "until the last hour," etc., which is obviously false.]

A bystander heard her saying: "Ah! Rouen, sorely do I fear that thou
mayest have to suffer for my death."[2569]

[Footnote 2569: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 53.]

She evidently still regarded herself as the messenger from Heaven, the
angel of the realm of France. Possibly the illusion, so cruelly reft
from her, returned at last to enfold her in its beneficent veil. At
any rate, she appears to have been crushed; all that remained to her
was an infinite horror of death and a childlike piety.

The ecclesiastical judges had barely time to descend and flee from a
spectacle which they could not have witnessed without violating the
laws of clerical procedure. They were all weeping: the Lord Bishop of
Theroua