d brother of the nun who had offered the most determined
opposition to Grandier's demand for sequestration of the possessed
sisters, during the second series of exorcisms. In vain did the mother
and brother of the accused present petitions setting forth the incapacity
of the doctors and the hatred of Grandier professed by the apothecary;
they could not, even at their own expense, obtain certified copies of any
of these petitions, although they had witnesses ready to prove that Adam
had once in his ignorance dispensed crocus metallorum for crocus
mantis--a mistake which had caused the death of the patient for whom the
prescription was made up. In short, so determined were the conspirators
that this time Grandier should be done to death, that they had not even
the decency to conceal the infamous methods by which they had arranged to
attain this result.

The examination was carried on with vigour. As one of the first
formalities would be the identification of the accused, Grandier
published a memorial in which he recalled the case of Saint-Anastasius at
the Council of Tyre, who had been accused of immorality by a fallen woman
whom he had never seen before. When this woman entered the hall of
justice in order to swear to her deposition, a priest named Timothy went
up to her and began to talk to her as if he were Anastasius; falling into
the trap, she answered as if she recognised him, and thus the innocence
of the saint was shown forth. Grandier therefore demanded that two or
three persons of his own height and complexion should be dressed exactly
like himself, and with him should be allowed to confront the nuns. As he
had never seen any of them, and was almost certain they had never seen
him, they would not be able, he felt sure, to point him out with
certainty, in spite of the allegations of undue intimacy with themselves
they brought against him. This demand showed such conscious innocence
that it was embarrassing to answer, so no notice was taken of it.

Meanwhile the Bishop of Poitiers, who felt much elated at getting the
better of the Archbishop of Bordeaux, who of course was powerless against
an order issued by the cardinal-duke, took exception to Pere l'Escaye and
Pere Gaut, the exorcists appointed by his superior, and named instead his
own chaplain, who had been judge at Grandier's first trial, and had
passed sentence on him, and Pere Lactance, a Franciscan monk. These two,
making no secret of the side with