bbins did not disavow such acquaintance with supernatural arts.
Rebecca's knowledge of the healing art had been acquired under an aged
Jewess, the daughter of a celebrated doctor. Miriam fell a sacrifice
to the fanaticism of the times, but her secrets had survived in her
apt pupil. The wounded knight, as might be expected, recovered under
the medical treatment of Rebecca. For this she was accused of working
cures by words, sigils, and other cabalistical mysteries.

"Nay, reverend and brave knight," answered Isaac, Rebecca's father, in
reply to Beaumanoir, who brought the charge against the Jewess, "but in
chief measure by a balsam of marvellous virtue;" and in reply to
another question, Isaac reluctantly told that Rebecca had obtained her
secret from Miriam, whom the Grand Master designated a witch and
enchantress, whose body had been burned at a stake, and her ashes
scattered to the four winds. "The laws of England," exclaimed
Beaumanoir, "permit and enjoin each judge to execute justice within
his own jurisdiction. The most petty baron may arrest, try, and
condemn a witch found within his own domain.... The witch shall be
taken out of the land, and the wickedness thereof shall be forgiven.
Prepare the castle-hall for the trial of the sorceress."

Poor Rebecca was brought before the Grand Master, charged with various
crimes. "We have," said the Master, "summoned to our presence a Jewish
woman, by name Rebecca, daughter of York--a woman infamous for
sortileges and for witcheries; whereby she hath maddened the blood,
and besotted the brain, not of a churl, but of a knight--not of a
secular knight, but of one devoted to the service of the holy
temple--not of a knight champion, but of a preceptor.... By means of
charms and of spells, Satan had obtained dominion over the knight,
perchance because he cast his eyes too lightly upon a damsel's
beauty."

Witnesses being invited by the Grand Master, forward came a once
bedridden man, whom the prisoner had restored to the perfect use of
his limbs by a miraculous balsam. Unwillingly he testified to Rebecca
curing him, giving him a pot of spicy smelling ointment, and supplying
him with money to pay his expenses to his father's house, whither he
wished to repair. Other witnesses deponed that Rebecca muttered to
herself in an unknown tongue, that the songs she sang were peculiarly
sweet, that her garments were of a strange mystic form, and that she
had rings with cabalistic devices