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He supported his demand by letters from the _Alma Mater_ to the Duke
of Burgundy and the Lord Jean de Luxembourg.

The University made known to the most illustrious Prince, the Duke of
Burgundy, that once before it had claimed this woman, called the Maid,
and had received no reply.

"We greatly fear," continued the doctors and masters, "that by the
false and seductive power of the Hellish Enemy and by the malice and
subtlety of wicked persons, your enemies and adversaries who, it is
said, are making every effort to deliver this woman by crooked means,
will in some manner remove her out of your power.

"Wherefore, the University hopes that so great a dishonour may be
spared to the most Christian name of the house of France, and again it
supplicates your Highness, the Duke of Burgundy, to deliver over this
woman either to the Inquisitor of the evil of heresy or to my Lord
Bishop of Beauvais within whose spiritual jurisdiction she was
captured."

Here follows the letter which the doctors and masters of the
University entrusted to the Lord Bishop of Beauvais for the Lord Jean
de Luxembourg:

Most noble, honoured and powerful lord, to your high
nobility we very affectionately commend us. Your noble
wisdom doth well know and recognise that all good Catholic
knights should employ their strength and their power first
in God's service and then for the common weal. Above all,
the first oath of the order of knighthood is to defend and
keep the honour of God, th