Note 322 — Chapter V · POLITICAL HERESY UTILIZED BY THE STATE. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Harduin. VII. 1334.—Procès, I. 286-7; II. 3-4, 269-73.—Raynouard, pp. 254-6.—A notarial attestation describes the voluminous record as consisting of 219 folios with forty lines to the page, equivalent to 17,520 lines.
How close a watch was kept on the witnesses is seen in the case of three, Martin de Mont Richard, Jean Durand, and Jean de Ruans, who, on March 22, asserted that they knew of no evil in the Order. Two days later they are brought back to say that they had lied through folly. When before their bishops they had confessed to renouncing and spitting, and it was true. What persuasions were applied to them during the interval no one can tell.—Procès, II. 88-96, 107-9.