Marmousets_, because of the multitudes of tiny figures
carved upon it.[2454]

[Footnote 2451: Old name for a cemetery close to a church. Godefroy,
_Lexique de l'ancien francais_ (W.S.).]

[Footnote 2452: _Trial_, vol. ii, p. 351.]

[Footnote 2453: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 54.]

[Footnote 2454: De Beaurepaire, _Notes sur le cimetiere de Saint-Ouen
de Rouen_, in _Precis analytique des travaux de l'Academie de Rouen_
1875-1876, pp. 211, 230, plan. U. Chevalier, _L'abjuration de Jeanne
d'Arc et l'authenticite de sa formule_, p. 44. A. Sarrazin, _Jeanne
d'Arc et la Normandie_, p. 351.]

On the great scaffold the two judges, the Lord Bishop and the
Vice-Inquisitor, took their places. They were assisted by the most
reverend Cardinal of Winchester, the Lord Bishops of Therouanne, of
Noyon, and of Norwich, the Lord Abbots of Fecamp, of Jumieges, of Bec,
of Corneilles, of Mont-Saint-Michel-au-Peril-de-la-Mer, of Mortemart,
of Preaux, and of Saint-Ouen of Rouen, where the assembly was held,
the Priors of Longueville and of Saint-Lo, also many doctors and
bachelors in theology, doctors and licentiates in canon and civil
law.[2455] Likewise were there many high personages of the English
party. The other scaffold was a kind of pulpit. To it ascended the
doctor who, according to the use and custom of the Holy Inquisition
was to preach the sermon against Jeanne. He was Maitre Guillaume
Erard, doctor in theology, canon of the churches of Langres and of
Beauvais.[2456] At this time he was very eager to go to Flanders, where
he was urgently needed; and he confided to his young servitor,
Brother Jean de Lenisoles, that the preaching of this sermon caused
him great inconvenience. "I want to be in Flanders," he said. "This
affair is very annoying for me."[2457]

[Footnote 2455: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 442, 444. O'Reilly, _Les deux
proces_, vol. i, pp. 70-93.]

[Footnote 2456: De Beaurepaire, _Notes sur les juges_, pp. 402, 408.]

[Footnote 2457: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 113.]

From one point of view, however, he must have been pleased to perform
this duty, since it afforded him the opportunity of attacking the King
of France, Charles VII, and of thereby showing his devotion to the
English cause, to which he was strongly attached.

Jeanne, dressed as a man, was brought up and placed at his side,
before all the people.[2458]

[Footnote 2458: _Ibid._, vol. i, pp. 469, 470.]

Maitre Guillaume Erard began his sermon in the following manner