. 167. J. Quicherat, _Apercus
nouveaux_, p. 95.]

In like manner did the Duke send the tidings to the Duke of Brittany
by his herald Lorraine; to the Duke of Savoy and to his good town of
Ghent.[2025]

[Footnote 2025: _Trial_, vol. v, p. 358. Le P. Ayroles, _La vraie
Jeanne d'Arc_, vol. iii, p. 534. P. Champion, _Guillaume de Flavy_,
pp. 169-171.]

The survivors of the company the Maid had taken to Compiegne abandoned
the siege, and on the morrow returned to their garrisons. The Lombard
Captain, Bartolomeo Baretta, Jeanne's lieutenant, remained in the town
with thirty-two men-at-arms, two trumpeters, two pages, forty-eight
cross bowmen, and twenty archers or targeteers.[2026]

[Footnote 2026: Note concerning Guillaume de Flavy in _Trial_, vol. v,
p. 177. A. Sorel, _La prise de Jeanne d'Arc_, p. 333.]

CHAPTER VIII

THE MAID AT BEAULIEU--THE SHEPHERD OF GEVAUDAN

The tidings that Jeanne was in the hands of the Burgundians reached
Paris on the morning of May the 25th.[2027] On the morrow, the 26th,
the University sent a summons to Duke Philip requiring him to give up
his prisoner to the Vicar-General of the Grand Inquisitor of France.
At the same time, the Vicar-General himself by letter required the
redoubtable Duke to bring prisoner before him the young woman
suspected of divers crimes savouring of heresy.[2028]

[Footnote 2027: Falconbridge, in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 458. _Journal
d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p. 255. J. Quicherat, _Apercus nouveaux_, p.
96. U. Chevalier, _L'abjuration de Jeanne d'Arc au cimetiere de
Saint-Ouen et l'authenticite de sa formule_, Paris, 1902, in 8vo, p.
18.]

[Footnote 2028: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 8-10. E. O'Reilly, _Les deux
proces_, vol. ii, pp. 13, 14. P. Denifle and Chatelain, _Chartularium
Universitatis Parisiensis_, vol. iv, p. 516, no. 2372.]

"... We beseech you in all good affection, O powerful Prince," he
said, "and we entreat your noble vassals that by them and by you
Jeanne be sent unto us surely and shortly, and we hope that thus ye
will do as being the true protector of the faith and the defender of
God's honour...."[2029]

[Footnote 2029: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 12. E. O'Reilly, _Les deux
proces_.]

The Vicar-General of the Grand Inquisitor of France, Brother Martin
Billoray,[2030] Master of theology, belonged to the order of friars
preachers, the members of which exercised the principal functions of
the Holy office. In the days of Innocent III, when the Inqui