[395] Le Brun de Charmettes, IV. 180-4.—L’Averdy, p. 488, 493 sqq.
A week after Joan’s execution a statement was drawn up by seven of those present in her cell to the effect that she acknowledged that her Voices had deceived her and begged pardon of the English and Burgundians for the evil she had done them, but this is evidently manufactured evidence, and does not even bear a notarial attestation.—Le Brun de Charmettes, IV. 220-5.
[396] Le Brun de Charmettes, IV. 188-210.—Procès, pp. 509-10.—Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, an 1431.
When the excitement which led to Joan’s condemnation passed away, and she was found to have been a useless victim, there was an effort made to shift the responsibility from the ecclesiastical to the secular authorities: it was claimed that there had been an irregularity in her execution without a formal judgment in the lay court. Two years afterwards, Louis de Luxembourg, then Archbishop of Rouen, and Guillaume Duval, vicar of the inquisitor, condemned for heresy a certain Georges Solenfant, and in delivering him to the Bailli of Rouen they gave instructions that he should not be put to death, as Joan had been, without a definitive judgment, in consequence of which there was a form of sentencing him.—L’Averdy, p. 498.
[397] Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, an 1431.—August 8, 1431, a monk named Jean de la Pierre was brought before Cauchon and le Maître charged with having spoken ill of the trial of Joan. This was a perilous offence when the Inquisition was concerned. He asked pardon on his knees, and excused himself on the ground that it was at table after taking too much wine. He was mercifully treated by imprisonment on bread and water in the Dominican convent until the following Easter.—L’Averdy, p. 141.
[398] Le Brun de Charmettes, IV. 238-40.—L’Averdy, p. 269.—Monstrelet, II. 105.—Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, an 1431.
[399] Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, an 1430.—Nider Formicar. v. viii.—Procès, p. 480.
[400] Monstrelet, II. 101.—Journal d’un Bourgeois, an 1431.—Mémoires de Saint-Remy ch. 172.—Abrégé de l’Hist. de Charles VII. (Godefroy, p. 334).
[401] Le Brun de Charmettes, Liv. xv.
[402] Minuc. Felicis Octavius (Mag. Bib. Pat. Ed. 1618, III. 7, 8).—Tertull. de Idololat. x.—Lactant. Divin. Instit. II. 9.—Augustin. de vera Relig. c. 13, c. 40 No. 75; De Genesi ad Litt. xi. 13, 17, 22, 27; Sermon. Append. No. 278 (Edit. Benedict)—Gregor. PP. I. Moral. in Job IV. 13, 17, 32.—Chrysostom. de Imbecillitate Diaboli Homil. I. No. 6.