se keeping she was soon
transferred into that of the English.

On the 20th of November the University of Paris sent a message to
Cauchon, advising him to bring Joan of Arc before a tribunal. Cauchon,
however, waited the arrival of Winchester, bringing with him his
great-nephew, Henry VI. Winchester arrived with the boy-king on the
2nd of December. The Cardinal intended the function of the crowning of
his great-nephew to be as imposing a ceremony as possible; and he
also meant, by defaming the source of the French King's successes, to
show the French people that Charles' coronation at Rheims had been
brought about by what the Regent Bedford called a 'limb of the evil
one.' It was, therefore, Bedford's plan that it should be declared
before the world that Joan of Arc was inspired by Satanic agencies,
and that consequently the French King's coronation was also due to
these agencies. By similar means it would be made clear that all the
French victories were owing to the same influence; for were it not,
argued the English, they would be proved to have been themselves
fighting against and defeated by--not the spirit of evil but--the
spirit of righteousness.

Nothing, indeed, could be clearer than Winchester's argument. It was
now only necessary that Joan of Arc should be at once placed on her
trial as a sorceress and a witch--one who was in league with the evil
one; and, when that had been satisfactorily proved, that she should
publicly meet with the fate which a merciful Church had, in its
infinite wisdom, ordained for such as she. Thus would the English army
and people be avenged, and the French King's crown and prerogative
suffer an irreparable damage.

From Beaurevoir, Joan of Arc was first taken to the town of Arras,
thence to Crotoy, where, about the 21st of November, she was handed
over to the English.

A chronicler of that day writes that the English rejoiced as greatly
on that occasion as if they had received all the wealth of Lombardy.
The Duke of Burgundy had never merited the title of 'Good,' which,
somehow or other, has been linked with his name. Had he been the most
virtuous of princes of any time, he yet deserves to have his memory
branded for the part he then took in the sale of Joan of Arc--a
transaction whereof the poor excuse of not losing the benefits of his
alliance with the English avails nothing. For this, if nothing else,
we reverse the good fame which lying history has accorded him.

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