Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in the Original Documents
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Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in the Original Documents
Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
(_Signed_) “BOISGUILLAUME.”
“And I, Guillaume Manchon, Priest, of the Diocese of Rouen,
Apostolic and Imperial Notary, I affirm that I assisted in the
collation made of the aforesaid Process, with the Registrars signed
above and below; I affirm that this collation of the present copy
with the original Minute of the Process hath been duly made. For
which, in the same way as the two other Registrars, I have
subscribed the present copy with my own hand, affixing thereto my
sign-manual, to this required.
(_Signed_) “G. MANCHON.”
“And I, Nicholas Taquel, Priest of the Diocese of Rouen, sworn
Imperial Public Notary and of the Archiepiscopal Court of Rouen,
called as Registrar to a part of the foregoing Process, I affirm
that I have seen and heard the present copy collated with the
original register of the said Process; I affirm that this collation
hath been duly made. For which, with the two other Registrars
preceding, I have subscribed with my own hand the present Process,
affixing thereto, here, my sign-manual, to this required.
(_Signed_) “N. TAQUEL.”
[Here follow the seals of the two Judges, marked in red wax on the
original copies of the Process, prepared to the number of five.]
SUBSEQUENT EXAMINATIONS[104]
AND
PROCEEDINGS AFTER THE RELAPSE.
_Information given after the Execution on many things said by Jeanne, at
the end of her life and in articulo mortis._
Thursday, 7th day of June, 1431, We, the Judges, did _ex-officio_ take
information upon certain things which the late Jeanne had said before
persons worthy of credit when she was still in prison and before being
brought to judgment.
EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES.
1. _The venerable and circumspect_ MAÎTRE NICOLAS DE VENDERÈS,
_licentiate in Canon Law, Archdeacon of Eu, hath declared upon oath as
follows_:
Wednesday, 30th day of May, Eve of the Feast of Corpus Christi, Jeanne,
being still in the prison of the Castle of Rouen where she was detained,
did say that considering the Voices which came to her had promised she
should be delivered from prison, and that she now saw the contrary, she
realized and knew she had been, and still was, deceived by them. Jeanne
did, besides, say and confess that she had seen with her own eyes and
heard with her own ears the apparitions and Voices mentioned in the
Case.
At this were present, you, the Judges aforesaid, and besides Maître
Pierre Maurice, Thomas de Courcelles, Nicolas Loyseleur, Brother Martin
Ladvenu, Jean Toutmouillé, Jacques Lecamus, and several others.
BROTHER MARTIN LADVENU, _Priest of the Order of Saint Dominic, did say
and depose, upon oath, as follows_:
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