Third Examination, May 11th, 1456. [Additional evidence:]
I had heard of the visitation ordered by the Duchess of Bedford, but did not know if it were true.
After her death, the English had her ashes collected and thrown into the Seine, because they feared that some might believe she had escaped.
Ladvenu: Second Examination, May 3rd, 1452. [He adds the following to his earlier testimony:]
I often saw her in the Castle of Rouen, under the custody of the English, ironed and in prison.
I heard Jeanne, by license of the Judges, in confession; I administered to her the Body of Christ; she received it with great devotion and tears which I cannot describe.
The resumption of her man’s dress was one of the causes of her condemnation.
Third Examination, May 9th, 1452. [Additional evidence:]
I was present at the greater part of the Process, with Brother Jean Lemaître, then Sub-Inquisitor. I saw Maître Nicolas de Houppeville—he who would not assist in the Process—taken to prison. I know well that Jeanne had no director, counsel, nor defender, up to the end of the Process, and that no one would have dared to offer himself as her Counsel, director, or defender, for fear of the English. I have heard that those who went to the Castle to counsel and direct Jeanne, by order of the Judges, were harshly repulsed and threatened.
Directly Jeanne was abandoned by the Church, she was seized by the English soldiers, who were present in large numbers, without any sentence from the secular authority, although the Bailly of Rouen and the Counsels of the Secular Court were present. I know this because I was with her, from the Castle to her last breath.