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O29 Manujeripts in phe Library of the late King of France. [A pril 1, 
and, as it had been faid, in order to feduce 
end miflesd, a fimple people, had given 
ext that fhe was fent by God, and had 
Know'edge of his divine intentions, toge- 
ther with many cther dogmas, moft dan- 
gerous, prejudicial, and fcandalous, to the 
Holy Catholic Faich ; in the practice of 
waich deceptions, and in a&ts of hottility 
againit us and our people, fhe bas becn 
taken in arms near Compiegne by fome of 
our loyal fubj.éts, aud fince brought pri- 
forer before us.”’ 
The Enginh Council, after this intro- 
duftion, think it ne eflary to ftate, that it 
was not of his own inclination that the 
‘King of England delivered up his prifoner 
“tor trial, but in coulequence of the de- 
mands to that effect which had been made 
an France, They therefore proceed: fo 
ffate in the letters-patent, «* And whereas 
the faid Joan hath been long {u‘pecied and 
charged by many perfons of the aforetaid 
fuperfiitious and talfe doomas, and of 
other crimes againft the Divine Majeily ; 
and whereas we have been required by 
the Reverend Father in God, ovr dear 
2nd trufty counfellor, the Bithop of Beau- 
vais, judge ecclefiaitical and ordinary of 
the aforefaid Joan, that inafmuch as the 
had been taken and apprehended within - 
the boundaries and limits of his dioecfe ; 
ad whereas we have allo been exhorted 
by our dear and moft holy daughter the 
Univerfity of Paris, that we fhould furren- 
der and deliver up the fa'd Joan to the 
fad Reverend Father in God, for the pur- 
po’e of being interrogated and examined 
touching the aforefaid charges.” 
It ig proper to remark here, that the 
Kling of England carefully abiiains from 
noticing the demands of the Inguifition, 
or that the Univerfity and the Eihop of 
Beauvais had written in favour of this 
monkith tribunal ; for at this pericd the 
Council durft not have inferted the name 
in any act of leg flative power; but ina 
fubfequent part ef the patent a claule is 
inferted, hy which a power is left to the 
prelite appvicted judge to confult wich the 
Fnquifition, and ** to proceed apainit her 
accoiding tothe ordinances and regula- 
tions of the divine and canonical law, 
fammoning thofe who ought to be fum- 
moned 5° which, from its generality, may 
fignity the Inguifition, as well as the 
doors in divinity and civil or canon-law, 
The patent accord ngly preeeeds to or- 
der that Joan fhould be placed in the cu 
tocy of tre Bithop of Beauvais, that he 
might initicute preecedings againit her, 
accotding to God and juftice, and all are 
ordered to give him aid, defence, protec- 
tion, and affiftance, but with this exprefs 
referve, that Joan fhould. be re-delivered 
to the King of England tn cafe fhe was nat 
convicted of the crimes with which fhe 
was accufed. This ftipulation was pro- 
bably the caufe why Joan was sot confin- 
ed in the ecclefiaftical prifon, but remain- 
ed under.a guard of foldiersin the Caftle 
of Rouen; the King of England thus 
only lending her, as it were, to the eccle- 
frattical tribunal, to examine whether fhe’ 
ought to fuffcr the punifhment of death. 
The letters-patent which have been 
quoted are imperative ; they are rot di- 
rected-to any tribunal for the purpofe of 
iorollment ; nor were they in fact regif- 
tered by any court of juttice, not even by 
thole who late m judgment upon Joan; fer 
they maintamed that they were her natural 
jedges, and wanted no additional autho. 
ruy. from the fovereign. The patent, 
therefore, isfimply a memorial annexed ta 
the firft a& of the procels, wich the letters 
of the Univerfity, and the requifitions of 
the Bithop of Beauvais, and the Vicarial 
Inguifitor in France. To thefe fucceed 
the letters by which the Chapier of Rouen 
(the fee being then yecant,) grant to the. 
Bilhep of Beauvais territory and jurifdic- 
tidn to infliiute the procefs within the 
limits of the Archbifhoprick of Rouen. © 
The fist at of the procefs is ftriétly no.” 
thing move than a confultation upon the bu- 
finefs. Ir is dated on the gth of January, — 
1430, and fubfcribed by the Bifhop of 
Beauvais and John Le Maitre, the latter of 
whom ftyles himfelf Grand Tnguifitor of 
France, deputed by auihority of the Pope. 
It is by no means improbable, that in- 
quifitors had exifted in France finge the 
time of the Albigeois, but they ventured 
to interfere only in times of commotion ; 
and it would not be furprizing that they 
fhould exft to this very day without dar. 
ing to difplay the title of ther office.— 
This obfervation need not be carried fur- 
ther, but it is not wholly without founda- 
tion, mee is PRY 
In the procés-verbal Joan is charged 
with having bern taken in arms by fol- 
diers within the limits of the Bifhop of 
Beauva's. She is reproached with having 
laid afide the habits of her fex, mira et 
monfirucfa diformitate, in order to allume 
_ male attire, and that fhe had aéted and 
fpoken contrary to the faith. It is then 
eclared that the Judges, viz. the Bifhop 
of Beauvais and the Vicarial Inquifitor, 
had refslved to proceed wi hout delay, 
with the affiftance of the Jearned and able 
men with whom, thanks to God, the cit: 
of Rouen abounded. It then adds pie 
the 
