We next have ’venerable et circonspecte personne Maitre Andre Marguerie’; this was one of Cauchon’s most trusted creatures.  His ‘ame damnee,’ Richard de Grouchet, canon of the collegiate Church of Sans Faye, is the next witness.  There is nothing of any interest in the testimony of these Churchmen, nor in that of Nicolas Dubesert, another canon of Rouen, nor in that of Nicolas Caval.  Next appears a prior, Thomas Marie, of the Church of Saint Michel, near Rouen.  Four other ecclesiastics follow them—­John Roquier, Peter Bouchier, John Bonnet, John de Lenozoles; but none of these men’s testimony is of any interest.  The evidence of no less a person than the torturer is called next.  He is named—­to give him his titles in full—­’Honnete homme Mauger Lessarmentrer, clerc non marier, appariteur de la cour archiepiscopalle de Rouen.’  The name of the chief torturer of the good city of Rouen, Mauger, has a gruesome ring about it—­it reminds one of the headsman in Harrison Ainsworth’s novel of the Tower of London.  Aged fifty-six in 1456, Mauger had seen Joan of Arc when she was brought into the yet extant tower of the castle, and threatened by Cauchon with the torture.  ‘We were,’ deposed Mauger, ’my companion and myself, ordered to go there to torture her.  She was questioned, and she answered with much prudence, and so well, that every one was amazed.  Finally, I and my companion left the tower without having laid hands upon her.’  Mauger attended at the execution, and this is what he heard and saw there and then.  ’As soon as the Bishop (Cauchon) had read the sentence, Joan was taken to the fire.  I did not hear whether the civil judges delivered the sentence or not.  Joan was placed instantly upon the fire.  In the midst of the flames she called out more than six times the name of Jesus.  It was when about to give the last breath that she called out with a loud voice, “Jesus!” so that every one could hear her.  Nearly everybody wept, for all were overcome with pity.’

After the torturer’s witness came that of a soldier, Aimonde de Macy, who was thirty years old when he met Joan in the Castle of Beaurevoir; she being then a prisoner in the charge of Ligny.

De Macy was at Rouen at the time when Lord Stafford came so nearly stabbing the Maid in her prison, and was only prevented from that dastardly act by Warwick.

We next hear the evidence of an attorney, Peter Daron:  he had also seen Joan in her prison at Rouen, and had seen her die.

Next we have ’prudent homme Maitre Jean Fave, maitre des requetes du roi Charles VII.’:  he, too, was present at the execution.

Next appears upon the scene ‘honnete personne Laurent Guesdon,’ clerk and advocate to the lay court of Rouen.  He also had been present at the death of Joan of Arc, and, from his office as lieutenant of the Bailiff of Rouen, he held an important position at the execution; and this is some of his evidence relating to it:  ’I assisted at the last sermon preached at the old market-place.  I had accompanied the Bailiff, being then his deputy.  The sentence was read by which Joan was abandoned to the secular arm; after that sentence had been pronounced the executioners seized her, before either the Bailiff or myself had time to read the sentence; and she was led up to the stake—­which was not as it should have been ordered.’