began to take a very different tone.  Massieu the clerical sheriff’s officer saw nothing in her answers that was not good and right.  Out of the midst of the crowd of listeners would burst an occasional cry of “Well said!” An Englishman, even a knight, overcome by his feelings, cried out:  “Why was not she English, this brave girl!” All these were ominous sounds.  Still more ominous was the utterance of Maitre Jean Lohier, a lawyer of Rouen, who declared loudly that the trial was not a legal trial for the reasons which follow: 

“In the first place because it was not in the form of an ordinary trial; secondly, because it was not held in a public court, and those present had not full and complete freedom to say what was their full and unbiassed opinion; thirdly, because there was question of the honour of the King of France of whose party Jeanne was, without calling him, or any one for him; fourthly, because neither libel nor articles were produced, and this woman who was only an uninstructed girl, had no advocate to answer for her before so many Masters and Doctors, on such grave matters, and especially those which touched upon the revelations of which she spoke; therefore it seemed to him that the trial was worth nothing.  For these things Monseigneur de Beauvais was very indignant against the said Maitre Lohier, saying:  ’Here is Lohier who is going to make a fine fuss about our trial; he calumniates us all, and tells the world it is of no good.  If one were to go by him, one would have to begin everything over again, and all that has been done would be of no use.’  Monseigneur de Beauvais said besides:  ’It is easy to see on which foot he halts (de quel pied il cloche).  By St. John, we shall do nothing of the kind; we shall go on with our trial as we have begun it.’”

A day or two later Manchon, the Clerk of the Court (he who refused to take down Jeanne’s conversation with her Judas), met this same lawyer Lohier at church, and asked him, as no doubt every man asked every other whom he met, how did he think the trial was going? to which Lohier answered:  “You see the manner in which they proceed; they will take her, if they can, in her words—­that is to say, the assertions in which she says I know for certain, things that concern her apparitions.  If she would say, ‘It seems to me’ instead of ‘I know for certain,’ I do not see how any man could condemn her.  It appears that they proceed against her rather from hate than from any other cause, and for this reason I shall not remain here.  I will have nothing to do with it.”  This I think shows very clearly that Lohier, like the bulk of the population, by no means thought at first that it was “from hate” that the trial proceeded, but honestly believed that he had been called to try Jeanne as a professor of the black arts; and that he had discovered from her own testimony that she was not so, and that the motive of the trial was entirely a different one from that of justice; one in fact with which an honest man could have nothing to do.