e, a reader of Terence and Virgil, was filled with
pity for this hapless Maid.[2534] On the previous day he had declared
her to have relapsed because his knowledge of theology forced him to
it; and now he was concerned for the salvation of this soul in peril,
which could not be saved except by recognising the falseness of its
Voices.

[Footnote 2534: Robillard de Beaurepaire, _Notes sur les juges_.]

"Are they indeed real?" he asked her.

She replied, "Whether they be good or bad, they appeared to me."

She affirmed that with her eyes she had seen, with her ears heard, the
Voices and apparitions which had been spoken of at the trial.

She heard them most frequently, she said, at the hour of compline and
of matins, when the bells were ringing.[2535]

[Footnote 2535: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 480.]

Maitre Pierre Maurice, being the Pope's secretary, was debarred from
openly professing the Pyrrhonic philosophy. He inclined, however, to a
rational interpretation of natural phenomena, if we may judge from his
remarking to Jeanne that the ringing of bells often sounded like
voices.

Without describing the exact form of her apparitions, Jeanne said they
came to her in a great multitude and were very tiny. She believed in
them no longer, being fully persuaded that they had deceived her.

Maitre Pierre Maurice asked about the Angel who had brought the crown.

She replied that there had never been a crown save that promised by
her to her King, and that the Angel was herself.[2536]

[Footnote 2536: _Ibid._, pp. 480, 481 (information furnished after her
death).]

At that moment the Lord Bishop of Beauvais and the Vice-Inquisitor
entered the prison, accompanied by Maitre Thomas de Courcelles and
Maitre Jacques Lecamus.[2537]

[Footnote 2537: _Ibid._, pp. 482, 483.]

At the sight of the Judge who had brought her to such a pass she
cried, "Bishop, I die through you."

He replied by piously admonishing her. "Ah! Jeanne, bear all in
patience. You die because you have not kept your promise and have
returned to evil-doing.[2538] Now, Jeanne," he asked her, "you have
always said that your Voices promised you deliverance; you behold how
they have deceived you, wherefore tell us the truth."

[Footnote 2538: _Ibid._, vol. ii, p. 114 (evidence of Brother Jehan
Toutmouille).]

She replied, "Verily, I see that they have deceived me."[2539]

[Footnote 2539: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 481, 482 (information given after
Jeanne's death).]