found, after the body had been destroyed, that the heart remained unconsumed.  He also relates that the executioner was ordered to collect the ashes and all that remained, and to throw those few relics of humanity into the Seine, which was accordingly done.  Martin Ladvenu followed Massieu.  Ladvenu was a Dominican friar:  he was one of the few priests who showed some humanity to the victim.  It was to him that Joan of Arc confessed on the morning of her death, and it was also to him that the executioner came on the night of the martyrdom, and said that no execution had ever affected him as that one had done.  Next to arrive was Isambard de la Pierre, a Dominican priest.  He had been an acolyte of the Vice-Inquisitor, Lemaitre; he too, like Ladvenu, had shown sympathy with the sufferer, had given her advice during the trial, and had helped to soothe her last moments.  De la Pierre states in his evidence regarding her supposed refusal to submit herself to the Church, that Joan of Arc, when she was told by her judges to submit herself, thought they meant themselves by the Church of which they spoke to her; but when she was told by him what the Church really signified she always said she submitted herself to it and to the Pope.  It was to Isambard de la Pierre that Joan begged for a cross when on the pile and about to die.  ‘As I was close by the poor child,’ he says, ’she begged me humbly to go to the church close at hand and bring her a cross to hold up right before her eyes, till her death, so that the cross on which God hung might as long as she lived appear before her.  She died a true and good Christian.  In the midst of the flames she never ceased calling on the sacred name of Jesus, and invoking the aid of the saints in Paradise.  When the fire was lit she begged me to get down from off the stake with my cross, but to hold it still before her, which I did.  At last, bending down her head, with a strong voice calling on the name of Jesus, she gave up the ghost.’

Yet another priest succeeds:  this is ’venerable et religieux personne, frere Jean Toutmouille,’ of the order of the preaching friars of Rouen.  Toutmouille was quite a youth at the time of Joan of Arc’s death.  Another priest follows, William Daval, also one of the order of preaching friars, and belonging to the Church of Saint James at Rouen.  He, too, had been, with Isambard, one of the acolytes of the Vice-Inquisitor.  In his evidence, he tells of how, after Isambard had been advising Joan in her prison, he was met by Warwick, who threatened to have him thrown into the river if he continued seeing the prisoner.