light matter, holding as you do so high an office
in God's Church," ran this letter, "that the scandals committed
against the Christian religion be stamped out, especially when such
scandals arise within your actual jurisdiction."[2124]

[Footnote 2124: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 15, 16. M. Fournier, _La Faculte
de decret et l'Universite de Paris_, vol. i, p. 353.]

Filled with faith and zeal for the avenging of God's honour, these
clerks were, as they said, always ready to burn witches. They feared
the devil; but, perchance, though they may not have admitted it even
to themselves, they feared him twenty times more when he was Armagnac.

Jeanne was taken out of Crotoy at high tide and conveyed by boat to
Saint-Valery, then to Dieppe, as is supposed, and certainly in the end
to Rouen.[2125]

[Footnote 2125: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 21. Le P. Ignace de Jesus Maria, in
_Trial_, vol. v, p. 363. F. Poulaine, _Jeanne d'Arc a Rouen_, Paris,
1899, in 16mo. Ch. Lemire, _Jeanne d'Arc en Picardie et en Normandie_,
Paris, 1903, p. 10, _passim_. Lanery d'Arc, _Livre d'or_, pp. 524,
549.]

She was conducted to the old castle, built in the time of
Philippe-Auguste on the slope of the Bouvreuil hill.[2126] King Henry
VI, who had come to France for his coronation, had been there since
the end of August. He was a sad, serious child, harshly treated by the
Earl of Warwick, who was governor of the castle.[2127] The castle was
strongly fortified;[2128] it had seven towers, including the keep.
Jeanne was placed in a tower looking on to the open country.[2129] Her
room was on the middle storey, between the dungeon and the state
apartment. Eight steps led up to it.[2130] It extended over the whole
of that floor, which was forty-three feet across, including the
walls.[2131] A stone staircase approached it at an angle. There was but
a dim light, for some of the window slits had been filled in.[2132]
From a locksmith of Rouen, one Etienne Castille, the English had
ordered an iron cage, in which it was said to be impossible to stand
upright. If the reports of the ecclesiastical registrars are to be
believed, Jeanne was placed in it and chained by the neck, feet, and
hands,[2133] and left there till the opening of the trial. At Jean
Salvart's, at _l'Ecu de France_, in front of the Official's
courtyard,[2134] a mason's apprentice saw the cage weighed. But no one
ever found Jeanne in it. If this treatment were inflicted on Jeanne,
it was not invented for