5.  John de la Fontaine, M.A.  He was Conseille d’Instruction during the trial.  In the course of it he was threatened by Cauchon for having given some friendly advice to the prisoner, and escaped from Rouen before the conclusion of the trial.

6, 7, 8.  William Manchon, William Colles, and Nicolas Taquel, all three recorders.  They belonged to the Church.  It is to Manchon that we are indebted for a summary of the most interesting account of the trial.  We shall find that at the time of Joan’s execution this man was horrified at the part he had taken in it.  He confesses his horror at having received money for his infamy, but instead of casting his blood-money at the feet of Cauchon, and hanging himself like another Judas, he somewhat naively informs us that he laid it out in the purchase of a breviary in order to pray for the soul of the martyr.

9.  Massieu, another priest, who acted as the sheriffs officer.  He appears to have had feelings of humanity, and attended Joan to the end.

10.  Louis de Luxembourg, Bishop of Therouenne and the Chancellor of France to King Henry VI.  This bishop was the go-between of Cauchon and Winchester throughout the trial; but he only appears to have taken part in these occasions during the examinations.  It was he who was made Archbishop of Rouen, which post Cauchon had hoped to gain; and it was for this archbishopric that Cauchon had taken the presiding post during the trial.

11.  John de Mailly, Bishop of Noyon; he was another staunch auxiliary of Cauchon.  In the year 1456, at the trial for the rehabilitation of Joan of Arc’s memory, Mailly signed his name among those who condemned the deed he had helped to carry out.

12.  Zanon de Castiglione, Bishop of Lisieux.  One of the reasons that this man gave for condemning Joan of Arc to the stake was that she was born in too low a rank of life to have been inspired by God.  This decision makes one wonder so aristocratic a prelate could demean himself by belonging to a religion which owed its origin to One who had followed the trade of a carpenter.

13.  Philibert de Montjeu, Bishop of Coutances.

14.  John de Saint Avet, Bishop of Avranches.  The latter was the only one of the above Bishops, Dominicans, and members of the French Church who gave his vote against the condemnation of Joan of Arc, although the trial minutes have not recorded the fact.

Besides the above French prelates, were:—­

15.  John Beaupere, M.A. and D.D., formerly a rector of the University of Paris, also a canon of Besancon.  It was he who, with the following five representatives of the University of Paris, took the most prominent part in the cross-questioning of the prisoner.

16.  Thomas de Courcelles, a canon of Amiens, of Therouenne, and of Laon.  This person was employed to read the articles of accusation to the prisoner, and was in favour of employing torture to make Joan confess what was required of her by her prosecutors.  He was considered one of the shining lights of the University of Paris.  He died in 1469, and until the Revolution an engraved slab, on which his virtues and learning were recorded, covered his remains.