clared
they had made with the said Grandier on several occasions: there was one
in especial which Leviathan gave up on Saturday the 17th inst., composed
of an infant's heart procured at a witches' sabbath, held in Orleans in
1631; the ashes of a consecrated wafer, blood, etc., of the said
Grandier, whereby Leviathan asserted he had entered the body of the
sister, Jeanne des Anges, the superior of the said nuns, and took
possession of her with his coadjutors Beherit, Eazas, and Balaam, on
December 8th, 1632. Another such pact was composed of the pips of
Grenada oranges, and was given up by Asmodeus and a number of other
devils. It had been made to hinder Beherit from keeping his promise to
lift the commissioner's hat two inches from his head and to hold it there
the length of a Miseyere, as a sign that he had come out of the nun. On
all these pacts being shown to the said Grandier, he said, without
astonishment, but with much firmness and resolution, that he had no
knowledge of them whatever, that he had never made them, and had not the
skill by which to make them, that he had held no communication with
devils, and knew nothing of what they were talking about. A report of
all this being made and shown to him, he signed it.

"This done, they brought all the possessed nuns, to the number of eleven
or twelve, including three lay sisters, also possessed, into the choir of
the said church, accompanied by a great many monks, Carmelites,
Capuchins, and Franciscans; and by three physicians and a surgeon. The
sisters on entering made some wanton remarks, calling Grandier their
master, and exhibiting great delight at seeing him.

"Thereupon Pere Lactance and Gabriel, a Franciscan brother, and one of
the exorcists, exhorted all present with great fervour to lift up their
hearts to God and to make an act of contrition for the offences committed
against His divine majesty, and to pray that the number of their sins
might not be an obstacle to the fulfilment of the plans which He in His
providence had formed for the promotion of His glory on that occasion,
and to give outward proof of their heartfelt grief by repeating the
Confiteor as a preparation for the blessing of the Lord Bishop of
Poitiers. This having been done, he went on to say that the matter in
question was of such moment and so important in its relation to the great
truths of the Roman Catholic Church, that this consideration alone ought
to be sufficient to excite