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.

Wherein the cause was so sincerelie canuassed a|mong them, that afterward, on the eight of Iulie 1456, a quite contrarie sentence was there declared: of effect, that this Ione (forsooth) was a damsell di|uine, no fault in the Dolphin for his counsell and wit|cherie practises with hir; the processe, iudgement, and condemnation against hir all wrong and iniurious. And for iustification and remembrance aswell of hir innocencie in life and death, as also of the sinceritie of their later sentence, a new crosse in that old mar|ket to be reared. In this tale of Tillets is she further likened to Debora, Iahell, and Iudith, and vnto Ro|mane Clelia compared by Polydor, that shames not somewhat also to carpe at hir iudgment, Li. 23. in vita H. 6. and much pi|tieth hir paine. But what puritie or regard of deuo|tion or conscience is in these writers trow yée, who make no consideration of hir heinous enormities, or else any difference betwéene one stirred vp by mercie diuine, or naturall loue, and a damnable sor|cerer suborned by satan? And thus much of this gen|tle Ione, and of hir good oratours that haue said so well for hir: now iudge as ye list.]