The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . sh in their city of Eouen. The university of Paris urged her trialbefore an ecclesiastical tribunal; and there are letters from that body, fuU ofreproach to the English for not delivering up their prisoner to the justice ofthe Church. At length letters patent were issued in the name of Henry VI.,5n which it was stated that, in accordance with the public opinion, and at the 90 JOAN TRIED FOR SORCEKY. iU3l. especial request of the bishop of Beauvais and the university of P
The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . sh in their city of Eouen. The university of Paris urged her trialbefore an ecclesiastical tribunal; and there are letters from that body, fuU ofreproach to the English for not delivering up their prisoner to the justice ofthe Church. At length letters patent were issued in the name of Henry VI.,5n which it was stated that, in accordance with the public opinion, and at the 90 JOAN TRIED FOR SORCEKY. iU3l. especial request of the bishop of Beauvais and the university of Paris, shewas to be given up to the bishop, to be examined and proceeded against underhis authority. She was subjected for several months to the most searchinginterrogatories. At fifteen examinations she was never disconcerted, butanswered every question with perfect frankness. AU the circumstances ofher early life were related by her; and her belief in her voices and visionsemphatically declared. Her determination to wear the male dress of hertriumphs was persisted in. Upon her alleged revelations were founded articles. Monutueut to Jeanne dArc at Rouen. accusing her of sorcery ; and upon her declining to submit to the ordinancesof the Church, when her voices commanded the contrary, the cliarge ofbeing a schismatic was also introduced. Heresy and schism, meriting thepunishment of fire, were declared to be found against her. The universityof Paris ratified the articles of accusation. On a public scaffold at Eouenthe sentence of condemnation was read to her by the bishop of Beauvais,Her courage deserted her; and she expressed her contrition and sentence of biu-ning at the stake was then to be commuted to perpetual 1431.] JOAN BURNT—FRENCH WAR CONTINUED. i>l imprisonment. She was taken back to prison, but after two days herconfidence returned; and she re-affirmed her belief that her voices came fromGod ; and that, not understanding what the adjuration was that
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