In this room, lying on a little straw, and almost without light, Grandier wrote the following letter to his mother: "MY MOTHER,--I received your letter and everything you sent me except the woollen stockings.

I endure any affliction with patience, and feel more pity for you than for myself.

I am very much inconvenienced for want of a bed; try and have mine brought to me, for my mind will give way if my body has no rest: if you can, send me a breviary, a Bible, and a St.Thomas for my consolation; and above all, do not grieve for me.
I trust that, God will bring my innocence to light.

Commend me to my brother and sister, and all our good friends .-- I am, mother, your dutiful son and servant, "GRANDIER" While Grandier had been in prison at Angers the cases of possession at the convent had miraculously multiplied, for it was no longer only the superior and Sister Claire who had fallen a prey to the evil spirits, but also several other sisters, who were divided into three groups as follows, and separated:-- The superior, with Sisters Louise des Anges and Anne de Sainte-Agnes, were sent to the house of Sieur Delaville, advocate, legal adviser to the sisterhood; Sisters Claire and Catherine de la Presentation were placed in the house of Canon Maurat; Sisters Elisabeth de la Croix, Monique de Sainte-Marthe, Jeanne du Sainte-Esprit, and Seraphique Archer were in a third house.
A general supervision was undertaken by Memin's sister, the wife of Moussant, who was thus closely connected with two of the greatest enemies of the accused, and to her Bontems' wife told all that the superior needed to know about Grandier.

Such was the manner of the sequestration! The choice of physicians was no less extraordinary.