The full ecclesiastical tribunal is assembled in a low, somber and vaulted apartment. The registrar reads to the ecclesiastical judges the last interrogatory, at which they had not all been present. They are to consider whether the accused shall be put to the torture. BISHOP CAUCHON--"My very dear brothers, you are again assembled in the name of our holy Church." ALL THE JUDGES--"Amen." BISHOP CAUCHON--"My very dear brothers, we Peter, Bishop of Beauvais by divine grace do, in view of the stubbornness of the said Joan, and in view of the pestilent heresy that her answers are poisoned with, consult with you, our very dear brothers, whether it is deemed expedient and urgent to submit the said Joan to the torture, to the end of obtaining from her answers and avowals that may save her poor soul from the eternal and her body from the temporal flames. Please give your opinion in the order of precedence." NICOLAS OF VENDERESSE--"It does not seem to me, at present, opportune to put the said Joan to the torture." ANDRE MARGUERIE--"I consider the torture superfluous. The answers of the accused are sufficient to condemn her upon. I am against the torture." WILLIAM ERARD--"It is, indeed, unnecessary to obtain new avowals from the said Joan. Those that she has made call for the chastisement of the temporal arm. Let us not go beyond that." ROBERT BARBIER--"I share the views of my very dear brother." DENIS GASTINEL--"I am of the opinion that we should forego the torture. It is useless in the case at bar." AUBERT MOREL--"I am of the opinion that the torture should be forthwith applied to the said Joan in order to ascertain whether the errors that she persists in are sincere or fraudulent." THOMAS OF COURCELLES--"I hold that it would be well to put the said Joan to the torture." NICOLAS OF COUPEQUESNE--"I do not think it expedient to submit Joan to bodily torture. But she should be admonished once more, in order to compel her to submit to the Church militant." JOHN LEDOUX--"I think so, too. No torture." ISAMBARD OF LA PIERRE--"That is my opinion." NICOLAS LOYSELEUR--"I think it is necessary as a medicine to the soul of the said Joan that she be put to the torture.[115] For the rest I shall adhere to the opinion of my very dear brothers. The question must be decided." WILLIAM HAITON--"I consider the torture useless. I pronounce against its application."