tokens rashly guilty towards God and Holy
Church.[2476]"

[Footnote 2476: _Ibid._, vol. i, pp. 474, 475.]

Time was passing. Already the Lord Bishop had uttered the greater part
of the sentence.[2477] The executioner was there, ready to take off the
condemned in his cart.[2478]

[Footnote 2477: _Ibid._, p. 473 note.]

[Footnote 2478: _Ibid._, vol. iii, pp. 65, 147, 149, 273. De
Beaurepaire, _Recherches sur le proces_, p. 358.]

Then suddenly, with hands clasped, Jeanne cried that she was willing
to obey the Church.[2479]

[Footnote 2479: _Trial_, vol. ii, p. 323.]

The judge paused in the reading of the sentence.

An uproar arose in the crowd, consisting largely of English
men-at-arms and officers of King Henry. Ignorant of the customs of the
Inquisition, which had not been introduced into their country, these
_Godons_ could not understand what was going on; all they knew was
that the witch was saved. Now they held Jeanne's death to be necessary
for the welfare of England; wherefore the unaccountable actions of
these doctors and the Lord Bishop threw them into a fury. In their
Island witches were not treated thus; no mercy was shown them, and
they were burned speedily. Angry murmurs arose; stones were thrown at
the registrars of the trial.[2480] Maitre Pierre Maurice, who was doing
his best to strengthen Jeanne in the resolution she had taken, was
threatened and the _coues_ very nearly made short work with him.[2481]
Neither did Maitre Jean Beaupere and the delegates from the University
of Paris escape their share of the insults. They were accused of
favouring Jeanne's errors.[2482] Who better than they knew the
injustice of these reproaches?

[Footnote 2480: _Ibid._, pp. 137, 376.]

[Footnote 2481: _Ibid._, p. 356; vol. iii, pp. 157, 178.]

[Footnote 2482: _Ibid._, p. 55.]

Certain of the high personages sitting on the platform at the side of
the judge complained to the Lord Bishop that he had not gone on to the
end of the sentence but had admitted Jeanne to repentance.

He was even reproached with insults, for one was heard to cry: "You
shall pay for this."

He threatened to suspend the trial.

"I have been insulted," he said. "I will proceed no further until
honourable amends have been done me."[2483]

[Footnote 2483: _Trial_, vol. iii, pp. 90, 147, 156.]

In the tumult, Maitre Guillaume Erard unfolded a double sheet of
paper, and read Jeanne the form of abjuration, written down according