nne refused to recant.[2470]
With confidence she awaited the deliverance promised by her Voices,
certain that of a sudden there would come men-at-arms from France and
that in one great tumult of fighting-men and angels she would be
liberated. That was why she had insisted on retaining man's attire.

[Footnote 2470: _Ibid._, p. 446.]

Two sentences had been prepared: one for the case in which the accused
should abjure her error, the other for the case in which she should
persevere. By the first there was removed from Jeanne the ban of
excommunication. By the second, the tribunal, declaring that it could
do nothing more for her, abandoned her to the secular arm. The Lord
Bishop had them both with him.[2471]

[Footnote 2471: _Ibid._, vol. iii, p. 146.]

He took the second and began to read: "In the name of the Lord, Amen.
All the pastors of the Church who have it in their hearts faithfully
to tend their flocks...."[2472]

[Footnote 2472: _Ibid._, vol. i, p. 473.]

Meanwhile, as he read, the clerks who were round Jeanne urged her to
recant, while there was yet time. Maitre Nicolas Loiseleur exhorted
her to do as he had recommended, and to put on woman's dress.[2473]

[Footnote 2473: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 146.]

Maitre Guillaume Erard was saying: "Do as you are advised and you will
be delivered from prison."[2474]

[Footnote 2474: _Ibid._, vol. ii, pp. 17, 331; vol. iii, pp. 52, 156.]

Then straightway came the Voices unto her and said: "Jeanne, passing
sore is our pity for you! You must recant what you have said, or we
abandon you to secular justice.... Jeanne, do as you are advised.
Jeanne, will you bring death upon yourself!"[2475]

[Footnote 2475: _Ibid._, p. 123.]

The sentence was long and the Lord Bishop read slowly:

"We judges, having Christ before our eyes and also the
honour of the true faith, in order that our judgment may
proceed from the Lord himself, do say and decree that thou
hast been a liar, an inventor of revelations and apparitions
said to be divine; a deceiver, pernicious, presumptuous,
light of faith, rash, superstitious, a soothsayer, a
blasphemer against God and his saints. We declare thee to be
a contemner of God even in his sacraments, a prevaricator of
divine law, of sacred doctrine and of ecclesiastical
sanction, seditious, cruel, apostate, schismatic, having
committed a thousand errors against religion, and by all
these