“May Our Saviour Jesus Christ preserve you from all these evils!”
After being thus admonished and exhorted, Jeanne did reply:
“As to my words and deeds, such as I have declared them in the Trial, I refer to them and will maintain them.”
“Do you not, then,” We asked her, “think yourself bound to submit your words and deeds to the Church Militant, or to any other but God?”
She replied: “What I have always said in the Trial, and held, I wish still to say and maintain. If I were condemned, if I saw the fire lighted, the faggots prepared, and the executioner ready to kindle the fire, and if I myself were in the fire, I would not say otherwise, and would maintain to the death all I have said.”[[94]]
Then, We, the Judges, asked of the Promoter and of Jeanne herself if they had anything else to say. They replied, No. In consequence, We did proceed to close the Process, following the formula contained in a schedule which We, the Bishop, held in Our hands, and which was thus expressed:
We, the Judges, competent in this Process, declare anew our competence in so far as is necessary;
Considering the declaration just made by the Promoter and the Accused that they have no more to say;
We declare the Process concluded;[[95]] and, this conclusion pronounced, We summon you both to-morrow to hear the law which will be laid down by Us, and the sentence which shall be pronounced by Us, to be afterwards carried out and proceeded with according to law and right.