D.Godefroy, _Histoire de Charles VII_, Paris, 1661, fol.pp.

369-474.] Jean Chartier,[14] precentor of Saint-Denys, held the office of chronicler of France in 1449.

Two hundred years later he would have been described as historiographer royal.

His office may be divined from the manner in which he relates Jeanne's death.

After having said that she had been long imprisoned by the order of John of Luxembourg, he adds: "The said Luxembourg sold her to the English, who took her to Rouen, where she was harshly treated; in so much that after long delay, they had her publicly burnt in that town of Rouen, without a trial, of their own tyrannical will, which was cruelly done, seeing the life and the rule she lived, for every week she confessed and received the body of Our Lord, as beseemeth a good catholic."[15] When Jean Chartier says that the English burned her without trial, he means apparently that the Bailie of Rouen did not pronounce sentence.
Concerning the ecclesiastical trial and the two accusations of lapse and relapse he says not a word; and it is the English whom he accuses of having burnt a good Catholic without a trial.