fourth examination th december additional statements the sum of a thousand pounds or crowns was given by the king of england for the surrender of the maid and an annuity of pounds to the soldier of the duke of burgundy who had captured her i was appointed notary in the trial together with a certain guillaume boisguillaume the copy of the process was shown to me is the true copy made i acknowledge my own and my companion's signatures and that it is the truth two other copies were made one was given to the inquisitor one to the king of england and one to the bishop of beauvais this process was made from a certain minute written in french by my own hand which was given up to the judges and was afterwards translated from the french into latin by monsieur thomas de courcelles and myself in the form in which it now stands as well and as faithfully as possible long after the death and execution of jeanne as for the act of accusation and other parts of the process maitre thomas de courcelles had very little to do with these nor did he greatly interfere with them with regard to the word nota written above certain articles in the minute there was on the first day of the inquiry a great tumult in the chapel of the castle at rouen where that day the interrogation was held so that jeanne was interrupted at almost every word while she was speaking of her apparitions certain secretaries were there two or three of the king of england who registered as they chose her words and depositions omitting all her defense and all which tended to exonerate her i complained of this saying it was irregular and that i would not be responsible as clerk in this matter and therefore on the morrow the place of meeting was changed and convened in a certain hall of the castle near the great hall while two english were placed to keep order when there were difficulties as to jeanne's answers and some said she had not replied as i had written i wrote nota at the top in order that the questions might be repeated and the difficulties removed although it is mentioned in the process that the judges stated they had received preliminary evidence i do not remember to have seen or heard of it but i know that if it had been produced it would have been inserted in the process jeanne was brought to rouen and not to paris because as i think the king of england and the principal people of his council were there at the beginning of the process i was sent for to attend a meeting held at a certain house near the castle at which were present the bishop of beauvais the abbe' of fecamp maitre nicolas loyseleur and many others the bishop told me it was necessary that i should serve the king that they meant to bring a fine case against this said jeanne and that i was to recommend another greffier to assist me i therefore nominated boisguillaume i met lohier in the church on the day after the bishop had asked him to give an opinion on the process and inquired what he you ght of it he replied that the process was of no value and could not be maintained because it was conducted in the castle and not in a legal court that it concerned many who were not summoned that jeanne had no counsel and for many other reasons he added that in his opinion it was their intention to put her to death a certain maitre nicolas de houppeville was summoned to attend the trial and was in great danger because he refused maitre jean lemaitre sub inquisitor delayed as long as possible his attendance at the trial and was much vexed at being compelled to attend one day when jeanne was being questioned jean de chatillon spoke in her favor saying that she was not compelled to reply to the question put to her or to that effect this much displeased the bishop of beauvais and his following and there was a great tumult at his words the bishop ordered him to be quiet and to let the judges speak on another occasion when some one was advising and directing jeanne on the question of submission to the church the bishop said hold your tongue in the devil's name i do not remember the name of him who was thus spoken to one day some one whose name i do not remember having spoken of jeanne in a way which did not please the earl of stafford the latter followed him sword in hand to some place of sanctuary and if they had not told stafford that that place was sacred he would have slain him those who seemed to me most affected against jeanne were beaupere midi and de touraine one day i went with the bishop of beauvais and the earl of warwick to the prison where jeanne was and we found her in irons it was said that at night she was fastened with iron chains but i did not see her so fas