any evil spirit appear to thee in the form of
Saint Michael thou wouldest know such a spirit and
distinguish him from the saint. And again hast thou said,
that of thine own accord, thou hast sworn not to reveal the
sign thou gavest to thy King. And finally thou didst add:
"Save at God's command."

Now touching these matters, the clerks affirm that supposing
thou hast had the revelations and beheld the apparitions of
which thou boastest and in such a manner as thou dost say,
then art thou an idolatress, an invoker of demons, an
apostate from the faith, a maker of rash statements, a
swearer of an unlawful oath.

ARTICLE XII

Item, thou hast said that if the Church wished thee to
disobey the orders thou sayest God gave thee, nothing would
induce thee to do it; that thou knowest that all the deeds
of which thou hast been accused in thy trial were wrought
according to the command of God and that it was impossible
for thee to do otherwise. Touching these deeds, thou dost
refuse to submit to the judgment of the Church on earth or
of any living man, and will submit therein to God alone. And
moreover thou didst declare this reply itself not to be made
of thine own accord but by God's command; despite the
article of faith: _Unam sanctam Ecclesiam catholicam_,
having been many times declared unto thee, and
notwithstanding that it behoveth all Christians to submit
their deeds and sayings to the Church militant especially
concerning revelations and such like matters.

Wherefore the clerks declare thee to be schismatic,
disbelieving in the unity and authority of the Church,
apostate and obstinately erring from the faith.[2444]

[Footnote 2444: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 430, 437.]

Having completed the reading of the articles, Maitre Pierre Maurice,
on the invitation of the Bishop, proceeded to exhort Jeanne. He had
been rector of the University of Paris in 1428.[2445] He was esteemed
an orator. He it was who, on the 5th of June, had discoursed in the
name of the chapter, before King Henry VI on the occasion of his
entering Rouen. He would seem to have been distinguished by some
knowledge of and taste for ancient letters, and to have been possessed
of precious manuscripts, amongst which were the comedies of Terence
and the _AEneid_ of Virgil.[2446]

[Footnote 2445: Du Boulay, _Hist