were her ecclesiastical judges who should not have
sentenced her to imprisonment if they foresaw that they could not
place her in an ecclesiastical prison, nor have commanded her a
penance which they knew they were unable to enforce. Likewise to blame
were the Bishop of Beauvais and the Vice-Inquisitor; because after
having, for the good of her sinful soul, prescribed the bread of
bitterness and the water of affliction, they gave her not this bread
and this water, but delivered her in disgrace into the hands of her
cruel enemies.

When she uttered the words, "God by Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret
hath given me to wit the sore pity of the treason to which I
consented," Jeanne consummated the sacrifice of her life.[2519]

[Footnote 2519: "_Responsio mortifera_," wrote the notary Boisguillaume
in the margin of his minutes. _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 456, 457.]

The Bishop and the Inquisitor had now to proceed in conformity with
the law. The interrogatory however lasted a few moments longer.

"Do you believe that your Voices are Saint Margaret and Saint
Catherine?"

"Yes, and they come from God."

"Tell us the truth touching the crown."

"To the best of my knowledge I told you the truth of everything at the
trial."

"On the scaffold, at the time of your abjuration, you did acknowledge
before us your judges and before many others, and in the presence of
the people, that you had falsely boasted your Voices to be those of
Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret."

"I did not mean thus to do or to say. I did not deny, neither did I
intend to deny, my apparitions and to say that they were not Saint
Margaret and Saint Catherine. All that I have said was through fear of
the fire, and I recanted nothing that was not contrary to the truth. I
had liefer do my penance once and for all, to wit by dying, than
endure further anguish in prison. Whatsoever abjuration I have been
forced to make, I never did anything against God and religion. I did
not understand what was in the deed of abjuration, wherefore I did not
mean to abjure anything unless it were Our Lord's will. If the judges
wish I will resume my woman's dress. But nothing else will I do."[2520]

[Footnote 2520: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 456-458.]

Coming out of the prison, my Lord of Beauvais met the Earl of Warwick
accompanied by many persons. He said to him: "Farewell. _Faites bonne
chere._" It is said that he added, laughing: "It is done! We have
caught her."[2521] The wor