to submit
herself to her arch-enemy the Bishop of Beauvais. When she asked what
Cauchon and his judges called the 'Church Militant,' she was told it
consisted of the Pope and the prelates below him. She thereupon
exclaimed she would willingly appear before him, but that she would
not submit to the judgment of her enemies, and particularly not to
Cauchon. 'In saying this,' adds M. Wallon, 'she displayed her usual
courageous spirit. How eagerly had she,' he remarks (when told that if
she would submit herself to the Council then sitting at Bale, where
she would find some judges of her party among the English), 'appealed
to be allowed to bring her case before that Council; and it will be
remembered how Cauchon cursed the lawyer who had brought forward the
suggestion during the trial.' On that occasion escaped from the
prisoner's lips the cry which showed how well she knew the
unscrupulousness of her judges. On learning that her wish to appeal to
the Council of Bale by Cauchon's order was not to appear in that day's
report of the trial, she said, 'You write down what is against me, but
you will not write what is favourable to me.' Along with the twelve
articles, Cauchon enclosed a letter to the lawyers in Paris asking for
their opinion on what he calls the facts submitted to them, 'whether
they do not appear to be contrary to the orthodox faith, to the
Scriptures, and to the Church of Rome, and whether the learned members
of the Church and doctors do not consider such things as stated in
these articles as scandalous, dangerous to civil order, injurious and
adverse to public morals.' In every way Cauchon's letter was worthy of
its author.

On the 12th of April a meeting under the presidency of Erard Emenyart,
consisting of a score of lawyers and clergy, was held in the chapel of
the archiepiscopal palace. At this meeting, with scarcely a
dissentient voice, it was voted that Joan of Arc had by her deeds and
her expressed opinions proved herself schismatical and strongly
tainted with heresy. A second meeting took place in the same building
on the following day, attended by some more Church functionaries. Some
of these suggested that the prisoner should be promptly handed over
to the secular arm--if she refuses still to renounce her errors--and
if she acknowledges them, her fate will then be to be imprisoned for
life, and given for nourishment 'the bread of sorrows and the water of
anguish.' Eleven advocates--all belonging to R