ation to take part in the trial of Joan. He was
one of the doctors who were sent to see her when she lay ill in
prison.

Then follows another doctor; this is William Delachambre, aged only
forty-eight in 1456. He must have practised his vocation at a very
early age. Delachambre had also joined in the trial of the Maid, from
fear of Cauchon. His evidence relating to the scene at Saint Ouen is
important.

'I remember well,' he says, 'the abjuration which Joan of Arc made.
She hesitated a long while before she made it. At length William Erard
determined her to make it by telling her that, when she had made it,
she should be delivered from her prison. Under this promise she at
length decided to do so, and she then read a short profession of some
six or seven lines written on a piece of folded paper. I was so near
that I could see the writing on the paper.'

We next come to the witness whose evidence is, next to that of Dunois,
of the greatest importance; it is that of the Recorder, or judges'
clerk, William Manchon. Born in 1395, he was sixty-one years of age
when the rehabilitation trial took place. Manchon's evidence takes up
thirty pages in M. Fabre's work, already often referred to--_Le Proces
de Rehabilitation de Jeanne d'Arc_. Much against his will was Manchon
obliged to act in the trial of the Maid, but he did not dare disobey
the orders of those who formed the Council of Henry VI. All that he
deposed has been made use of in the account of the heroine's life; so
now we need do no more than refer to it. The other Recorder who helped
Manchon to draw up the minutes of the trial was also examined; this
was William Colles, called Boisguillaume. He was in his sixty-sixth
year. Colles relates that, after the execution, the people used to
point out the author of Joan's death with horror--'besides,' he adds,
'I have been told that the most prominent of those who took part in
her condemnation died miserably. Nicolas Midi [who had preached the
sermon on the day of her execution, and just before it took place] was
stricken with leprosy, and Cauchon died suddenly, while being
shaved.'

A third Recorder was also examined, Nicolas Taquel. Then followed the
priest Massieu. During the trial of Joan he had acted as bailiff to
the Court, and in that capacity had seen much of the prisoner; he had
always conveyed her to and from her prison. It may be remembered that
it was he who, on Joan's petition to be allowed to kneel before the