ds are his, doubtless, but we are not certain
that he laughed.

[Footnote 2521: _Ibid._, vol. ii, pp. 5, 8, 305.]

On the morrow, Tuesday the 29th, he assembled the tribunal in the
chapel of the Archbishop's house. The forty-two assessors present were
informed of what had happened on the previous day and invited to state
their opinions, the nature of which might easily be anticipated.[2522]
Every heretic who retracted his confession was held a perjurer, not
only impenitent but relapsed. And the relapsed were given up to the
secular arm.[2523]

[Footnote 2522: _Ibid._, vol. i, pp. 459, 467.]

[Footnote 2523: Bernard Gui, _Pratique_, part iii, p. 144. L. Tanon,
_Tribunaux de l'inquisition_, pp. 464 _et seq._]

Maitre Nicholas de Venderes, canon, archdeacon, was the first to state
his opinion.

"Jeanne is and must be held a heretic. She must be delivered to the
secular authority."[2524]

[Footnote 2524: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 462, 463.]

The Lord Abbot of Fecamp expressed his opinion in the following terms:
"Jeanne has relapsed. Nevertheless it is well that the terms of her
abjuration once read to her, be read a second time and explained, and
that at the same time she be reminded of God's word. This done, it is
for us, her judges, to declare her a heretic and to abandon her to the
secular authority, entreating it to deal leniently with her."[2525]

[Footnote 2525: _Ibid._, p. 463.]

This plea for leniency was a mere matter of form. If the Provost of
Rouen had taken it into consideration he also would have been
excommunicated, with a further possibility of temporal punishment.[2526]
And yet there were certain counsellors who even wished to dispense with
this empty show of pity, urging that there was no need for such a
supplication.

[Footnote 2526: L. Tanon, _Tribunaux de l'inquisition_, pp. 472, 473.]

Maitre Guillaume Erard and sundry other assessors, among whom were
Maitres Marguerie, Loiseleur, Pierre Maurice, and Brother Martin
Ladvenu, were of the opinion of my Lord Abbot of Fecamp.[2527]

[Footnote 2527: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 463, 467.]

Maitre Thomas de Courcelles advised the woman being again charitably
admonished touching the salvation of her soul.

Such likewise was the opinion of Brother Isambart de la Pierre.[2528]

[Footnote 2528: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 466.]

The Lord Bishop, having listened to these opinions, concluded that
Jeanne must be proceeded against as one having relapsed. Accordingly