aid on the shoulder blade, and the other on the thigh. Both marks were
very sensitive, the wounds which Mannouri had made not having yet healed.
This point having been certified by Fourneau, Grandier was handed, not
his own clothes, but some wretched garments which had probably belonged
to some other condemned man.

Then, although his sentence had been pronounced at the Carmelite convent,
he was taken by the grand provost's officer, with two of his archers,
accompanied by the provosts of Loudun and Chinon, to the town hall, where
several ladies of quality, among them Madame de Laubardemont, led by
curiosity, were sitting beside the judges, waiting to hear the sentence
read. M. de Laubardemont was in the seat usually occupied by the clerk,
and the clerk was standing before him. All the approaches were lined
with soldiers.

Before the accused was brought in, Pere Lactance and another Franciscan
who had come with him exorcised him to oblige the devils to leave him;
then entering the judgment hall, they exorcised the earth, the air, "and
the other elements." Not till that was done was Grandier led in.

At first he was kept at the far end of the hall, to allow time for the
exorcisms to have their full effect, then he was brought forward to the
bar and ordered to kneel down. Grandier obeyed, but could remove neither
his hat nor his skull-cap, as his hands were bound behind his back,
whereupon the clerk seized on the one and the provost's officer on the
other, and flung them at de Laubardemont's feet. Seeing that the accused
fixed his eyes on the commissioner as if waiting to see what he was about
to do, the clerk said:

"Turn your head, unhappy man, and adore the crucifix above the bench."

Grandier obeyed without a murmur and with great humility, and remained
sunk in silent prayer for about ten minutes; he then resumed his former
attitude.

The clerk then began to read the sentence in a trembling voice, while
Grandier listened with unshaken firmness and wonderful tranquillity,
although it was the most terrible sentence that could be passed,
condemning the accused to be burnt alive the same day, after the
infliction of ordinary and extraordinary torture. When the clerk had
ended, Grandier said, with a voice unmoved from its usual calm--

"Messeigneurs, I aver in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Ghost, and the Blessed Virgin, my only hope, that I have never been a
magician, that I have never committe