"Vous dictes que vous estes mon juge, je ne s�ay si vous l'estes; mais advisez bien que ne jug�s mal, que vous vous mectri�s en grant danger; et vous en advertis, afin que se (si) nostre, Seigneur vous en chastie, que je fais mon debvoir de le vous dire".

"You say that you are my judge, I don't know if you are [or not]; but take care not to judge wrongly, lest you place yourself in great danger; and [I] notify you of this, so that if our Lord punishes you for it, I will have done my duty in telling you." This was no idle comment: Bishop Cauchon had always been something of a revolutionary (despite the aura of orthodoxy he tried to project), and his conduct during the trial earned him the censure of Inquisitor Jean Br�hal (who essentially accused him of heresy) when the case was retried.