W. P. [As before ye haue heard somewhat of this dam|sels strange beginning and proceedings, so sith the ending of all such miraclemongers dooth (for the most part) plainelie decipher the vertue and power that they worke, by hir shall ye be aduertised what at last became of hir; cast your opinions as ye haue cause. Of hir louers (the Frenchmen) reporteth one, how in Campeigne thus besieged, Chroniques de Britaigne. Guillaume de Flauie the capteine hauing sold hir aforehand to the lord of Lut|zenburgh, vnder colour of hasting hir with a band out of the towne towards their king, for him with spéed to come and leauie the siege there, so gotten hir foorth he shut the gates after hir, when anon by the Burgognians set vpon and ouermatcht in the con|flict she was taken: marie yet (all things accounted) to no small maruell how it could come so to passe, had she béene of any deuotion or of true beléefe, and no false miscreant, but all holie as she made it. For earlie that morning she gat hir to saint Iameses church, confessed hir, and receiued hir maker (as the booke termes it) and after setting hir selfe to a piller, manie of the townesmen that with a fiue or six score of their children stood about there to see hir, vnto them (quod she)

Good children and my déere freends, I tell you plaine one hath sold me. I am betraied and short|lie shall be deliuered to death; I beséech you praie to God for me, for I shall neuer haue more power to doo seruice either to the king or to the realme of France againe.

Saith another booke, she was intrapt by a Picard capteine of Soissons, Le Rosier. who sold that citie to the duke of Burgognie, and he then put it ouer into the hands of the lord of Lutzenburgh, so by that meanes the Burgognians approched and besieged Campeigne, for succour whereof as damsell Ione with hir cap|teins from Laignie was thither come, and dailie to the English gaue manie a hot skirmish, so happened it one a daie in an outsallie that she made by a Pi|card of the lord of Lutzenburghs band, in the fiercest of hir fight she was taken, and by him by and by to his lord presented, who sold hir ouer againe to the English, who for witchcraft and sorcerie burnt hir at Rone. Tillet telleth it thus, that she was caught at Campeigne by one of the earle of Ligneis soldiers,

In lavie [...] Charles sep|tiesme.

Fiue thou|sand pound [...] frẽch crowns in monie.

An hundreth and fiftie crownes ren [...].

In which for hir pranks so vncoush and suspicious, the lord regent by Peter Chauchon bishop of Beau|uois (in whose diocesse she was taken) caused hir life and beléefe, after order of law to be inquired vpon and examined. Wherein found though a virgin, yet first shamefullie reiecting hir sex abominablie in acts and apparell to haue counterfeit mankind, and then all damnablie faithlesse, to be a pernicious instru|ment to hostilitie and bloudshed in diuelish witch|craft and sorcerie, sentence accordinglie was pro|nounced against hir. Howbeit vpon humble confessi|on of hir iniquities with a counterfeit contrition pre|tending a carefull sorow for the same, execution spa|red and all mollified into this, that from thencefoorth she should cast off hir vnnaturall wearing of mans abilliments, and kéepe hir to garments of hir owne kind, abiure hir pernicious practises of sorcerie and witcherie, and haue life and leasure in perpetuall pri|son to bewaile hir misdeeds. Which to performe (ac|cording to the maner of abiuration) a solemne oth verie gladlie she tooke.