Note 397 — Chapter V · POLITICAL HERESY UTILIZED BY THE STATE. (continued 3)

Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, an 1431.—August 8, 1431, a monk named Jean de la Pierre was brought before Cauchon and le Maître charged with having spoken ill of the trial of Joan. This was a perilous offence when the Inquisition was concerned. He asked pardon on his knees, and excused himself on the ground that it was at table after taking too much wine. He was mercifully treated by imprisonment on bread and water in the Dominican convent until the following Easter.—L’Averdy, p. 141.