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.

But herein (God helpe vs) she fullie afore possest of the feend, not able to hold hir in anie towardnesse of grace, Polydo. 23. in H. 6. falling streight waie into hir former abomi|nations (and yet séeking to eetch out life as long as she might) stake not (though the shift were shamefull) to confesse hir selfe a strumpet, and (vnmaried as she was) to be with child. For triall, the lord regents le|nitie gaue hir nine moneths staie, at the end wherof she found herein as false as wicked in the rest, an eight daies after, vpon a further definitiue sentence declared against hir to be relapse and a renouncer of hir oth and repentance, was she therevpon deliuered ouer to secular power, and so executed by consumpti|on of fire in the old market place at Rone, in the selfe same stéed where now saint Michaels church stands, Les grand chron. hir ashes afterward without the towne wals shaken into the wind. Now recounting altogither, hir pastorall bringing vp, rude without any vertuous instruction, hir campestrall conuersation with wic|ked spirits, Les grandes chronicle 4 liure. whome in hir first salutation to Charles the Dolphin, she vttered to be our Ladie, saint Katha|rine, and saint Annes, that in this behalfe came and gaue hir commandements from God hir maker, as she kept hir fathers lambs in the fields (where saints in warres among christen men were (be we sure) ne|uer so parciall patrons or partners to maintenance of horrible slaughters, rapines and bloudshed) hereto hir murtherous mind in killing of Franquet hir owne prisoner, hir two yeares continuance in hir abominations and deadlie mischiefe without anie hir trauell or motion betwéene the princes for peace, hir EEBO page image 605 relapse at last & falling againe into hir abiured ini|quities, by hir virginitie (if it were anie) by hir holie words, hir fasting and praiers what they might be, sith satan (after S. Paule) can change himselfe into an angell of light, the déeplier to deceiue.

These matters may verie rightfullie denounce vnto all the world hir execrable abhominations, and well iustifie the iudgement she had, and the execution she was put to for the same. A thing yet (God wot) verie smallie shadowed, and lesse holpen by the verie trauell of the Dolphin, whose dignitie abroad foulie spotted in this point, that contrarie to the holie de|grée of a right christen prince (as he called himselfe) for maintenance of his quarels in warre would not reuerence to prophane his sacred estate, Christianissi|mus rex. as dealing in diuelish practises with misbeléeuers and witches. Which maladie he full sorilie salued (like one that to kill the strong sent of onions would cheaw a cloue of garlike) so a six and twentie yeares after, Tillet. This prelate at his death left a hundred and fiftéene crownes in gold, that vn|der colour of warres with the infidels he had fléesed from christen princes. Platina. he pact with pope Calixt the third, by whose mandat directed to his three delegats, the bishops of Paris, Reimes, and Constance, at the cathedrall church of Paris, in presence of Ione (the pusels mother) Iohn and Pe|ter hir brethren, the seuen and twentith daie of No|uember 1455, the validitie and goodnesse of the pro|cesse and sentence vpon hir was called in question, and in great solemnitie sit vpon.