(Signed) HIEROME CORNILLE.

And, lower-down.

TOURNEBOUCHE.

In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen.

In the year of our Lord one thousand two hundred and seventy-one, the 10th day of February, after mass, by command of us, Hierome Cornille, ecclesiastical judge, has been brought from the jail of the chapter and led before us the woman taken in the house of the innkeeper Tortebras, situated in the domains of the chapter and the cathedral of St. Maurice, and are subject to the temporal and seigneurial justice of the Archbishop of Tours; besides which, in consequence of the nature of the crimes imputed to her, she is liable to the tribunal and council of ecclesiastical justice, the which we have made known to her, to the end that she should not ignore it.

And after a serious reading, entirely at will understood by her, in the first place of the petition of the town, then of the statements, plaints, accusations, and proceedings which written in twenty-four quires by Master Tournebouche, and are above related, we have, with the invocation and assistance of God and the Church, resolved to ascertain the truth, first by interrogatories made to the said accused.

In the first interrogation we have requested the aforesaid to inform us in what land or town she had been born.  By her who speaks was it answered:  “In Mauritania.”

We have then inquired:  “If she had a father or mother, or any relations?” By her who speaks has it been replied:  “That she had never known them.”  By us requested to declare her name.  By her who speaks has been replied:  “Zulma,” in Arabian tongue.

By us has it been demanded:  “Why she spoke our language?” By her who speaks has it been said:  “Because she had come into this country.”  By us has it been asked:  “At what time?” By her who speaks has it been replied:  “About twelve years.”

By us has it been asked:  “What age she then was?” By her who speaks has it been answered:  “Fifteen years or thereabout.”

By us has it been said:  “Then you acknowledge yourself to be twenty-seven years of age?” By her who speaks has it been replied:  “Yes.”

By us has it been said to her:  “That she was then the Moorish child found in the niche of Madame the Virgin, baptised by the Archbishop, held at the font by the late Lord of Roche-Corbon and the Lady of Azay, his wife, afterwards by them placed in religion at the convent of Mount Carmel, where by her had been made vows of chastity, poverty, silence, and the love of God, under the divine assistance of St. Clare?” By her who speaks has been said:  “That is true.”

By us has it been asked her:  “If, then, she allowed to be true the declarations of the very noble and illustrious lady the abbess of Mount Carmel, also the statements of Jacquette, called Vieux-Oing, being kitchen scullion?” By the accused has been answered:  “These words are true in great measure.”