now been reminded that he too had received some of this
blood-money.

Next to appear is another French bishop, Monseigneur Jean Le Fevre,
Eveque in partibus de Demetriade. This prelate was in his seventieth
year. At the time of Joan of Arc's trial he was professor of theology
of the order of hermit monks of Saint Augustins. The Bishop had taken
an active part in the trial and condemnation. Like his brother bishop,
Le Fevre enjoyed a very convenient memory, and had quite forgotten
many things of importance which occurred during the trial in 1430. Nor
did he even take part as a spectator in the martyrdom which he had
helped to bring about--'I left before the end,' he said, 'not feeling
the strength to see more.' Let that shred of humanity in the
composition of priests like him be allowed before we entirely condemn
them.

The next witness is also a Churchman, Peter Migiet, the prior of
Longueville, aged seventy. He also had been one of Cauchon's crawling
creatures. There is little of interest in his evidence, except the
passage where he says that an English knight had told him that the
English feared Joan of Arc more than a hundred soldiers, and that her
very name was a source of terror to the foe. Although this sounds an
exaggerated statement, it is not so, as is proved by an edict having
been issued by the English Government in the May of 1430, in which
English officers and soldiers who refused to enter France for fear of
'the enchantments of the Maid' were threatened with severe punishment.
There is, moreover, an edict, bearing the date of December 1430, which
was also issued by the English military authorities, describing the
trial and the punishment by court martial of all soldiers who had
deserted the army in France from fear of Joan of Arc.

After the above priests, on whom rests the infamy of having taken part
in the death of the heroine, it is a relief to find the next witness,
although a Churchman, a man of sufficient honesty and courage to have
been one of those few who refused to take any part in the iniquitous
proceedings connected with Joan of Arc's trial, and who suffered
imprisonment owing to his unwillingness to carry out Cauchon's wishes.
This worthy priest was named Nicolas de Houppeville, a doctor of
theology, now in his sixty-fifth year.

The next witness is John Tiphanie, a canon of the Sainte Chapelle of
Paris. He was also a doctor in medicine. Tiphanie had been compelled
much against his inclin