[77] This was the Dauphin, afterward Charles VII, whose brother Jean, Duke of Burgundy, had, in 1407, procured the murder of the Duke of Orleans.
[78] To houspiller is to maul, pull about, abuse, "worry like a dog"; hence the name houspilleur.
[79] The English cardinal, most powerful ecclesiastic of the time.
[80] Assistant judges.
[81] Tipstaffs, constables.
[82] The Duke of Bedford (John of Lancaster), third son of Henry IV of England, was regent of England and France, which office he assumed on the death of Henry V, in 1422.
[83] The memory of Jeanne d'Arc was long and shamefully traduced by descendants of those enemies of France whom she baffled. Even Shakespeare (Henry VI) is so unjust to her—refining upon the brutal calumnies of the historians—as to grieve his most loving critics. It remained for the opening years of the twentieth century to see the Maid canonized by the Church which, as the agent of her country's foes, was instrumental in her destruction.—Ed.
[84] Translated by Chauncey C. Starkweather, M.A., LL.B.
[85] The Catalan Grand Company was a formidable body of mercenary soldiers; it arose in Sicily during the wars that followed the Sicilian Vespers.
[86] See 1291.