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.

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.