_In ipsâ Causâ concludimus._ Footnote 96: In the Square of Saint-Ouen were two platforms on each side of the south door of the Church: Jeanne and Maître Érard, the preacher, occupied one; the Bishop of Beauvais, together with a great number of Assessors, filled the other. In those days, and up to comparatively recent times, a cemetery occupied this site, which is now a garden. There was ample space for a large crowd to collect on the gently sloping ground facing the south door. Footnote 97: There is no note as to when Jeanne interrupted the Bishop. The Latin gives no hint. It is probable that, during the reading of the sentence, Érard and Loiseleur were trying to induce Jeanne to recant and sign the schedule, and that her abjuration was the result of their endeavours, not of the Bishop’s. Footnote 98: The Latin reading is, “Ante finem sententiæ, Johanna, timens ignem, dixit se velle obedire ecclesiæ.” [Illustration: BATTLE OUTSIDE ORLEANS. ] II SECOND PROCESS: THE RELAPSE _Monday, May 28th, the day following Trinity Sunday._ We, the aforesaid Judges, repaired to the place of Jeanne’s prison, to learn the state and disposition of her soul. There were found with us the Lords and Masters Nicolas de Venderès, Guillaume Haiton, Thomas de Courcelles, Brother Ysambard de la Pierre; witnesses, Jacques Cannes, Nicolas Bertin, Julien Floquet and John Gris. And because Jeanne was dressed in the dress of a man—that is to say, a short mantle, a hood, a doublet and other effects used by men—although, by our orders, she had, several days before, consented to give up these garments, we asked her when and for what reason she had resumed this dress.[99] She answered us: “I have but now resumed the dress of a man and put off the woman’s dress.” “Why did you take it, and who made you take it?” “I took it of my own free will, and with no constraint: I prefer a man’s dress to a woman’s dress.” “You promised and swore not to resume a man’s dress.” “I never meant to swear that I would not resume it.” “Why have you resumed it?” “Because it is more lawful and suitable for me to resume it and to wear man’s dress, being with men, than to have a woman’s dress. I have resumed it because the promise made to me has not been kept; that is to say, that I should go to Mass and should receive my Saviour and that I should be taken out of irons.” “Did you not abjure and promise not to resume this dress?” “I would rather die than be in irons! but if I am allowed to go to Mass, and am taken out of irons and put into a gracious prison, and [may have a woman for companion[100]] I will be good, and do as the Church wills.” And as We, the Judges, heard from several persons that she had returned to her old illusions on the subject of her pretended revelations, We put to her this question: “Since last Thursday [the day of her abjuration] have you heard your Voices at all?”