[71] Par. X. 136. “Who lecturing in Straw St. deduced truths that brought him hatred.”
[72] Benvenuto was certainly in France and possibly in Paris during the fourteenth century. At any rate he would be familiar with Parisian students, many of whom were Italians.
[73] In the seventeenth century the councillors had increased to one hundred and twenty and the courts to seven.
[74] The term “Parlement” was originally applied to the transaction of the common business of a monastic establishment after the conclusion of the daily chapter.
[75] The contemporary chronicler, Villani, says of one of these scoundrels that he “was named Nosso Dei, one of our Florentines, a man filled with every vice.”
[76] The indictment covers seven quarto pages. The charges may be briefly classified as blasphemy, heresy, spitting and trampling on the crucifix, obscene and secret rites, and unnatural crimes.
[77] There is a significant entry on page 273 of the published trial: in ista pagina nihil est scriptum. The empty page tells of the moment when the papal commissioners, having heard that the fifty-four had been burned, suspended the sitting.
[78] Nihil sibi appropriare intendebat.
[79] Or the isle of the Jews, which, with its sister islet of Bussy, were subsequently joined to the island of the Cité, and now form the Place Dauphine and the land that divides the Pont Neuf. Philip watched the fires from his palace garden.
[80] It is to be hoped that some English scholar will do for these most important records, the earliest report of any great criminal trial which we possess, what Mr T. Douglas Murray has done for the Trial and Rehabilitation of Joan of Arc.