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    Article STORY OF URBAIN GRANDIER. ← Page 2 of 7 →
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Story Of Urbain Grandier.

possessed , and the ladies had somewhat improved themselves in the parts they were to play . _ Tneeardinal trusted entirely to M . de Laubardemtfht the execution of his vengeance , who returned to Loudun with a full commission to bring Grandier to his trial , and to decide finally on each articleof the accusation . The first step of this ministe to order

r was Grandier to prison , without waiting for any information against him , who , though forewarned of this intention in time to make his escape , disdained to confess himself a culprit by flying the face of justice . He was seized the next morning before ' it was li ght , as he walked to his church to assist at matins , and was immediately conveyed to the castle at Angerswhere he lay in adungeon for three monthsHere

, . . he composed a volume of prayers and meditations , which breathed nothing but piety , forgiveness , and resignation ; a composition of great elegance both for diction and sentiment , and which looked very little like the production of a magician ' s brain . This work , which was exhibited on his trial , operated as little in his favour as ' the testimony of his confessor , who visited him in prison . His enemies were to

. sworn destroy him . Some feeble struggles were made for the poor ecclesiastic b y his aged mother , who presented several appeals in vain . He was tried on the 19 th of December 16 33 , on the grounds of the supposed possessions : and Grandier , though surrounded with bitter enemies , and with a miserable death staring him in the face , wore a countenance serene and unmoved , while the villanous artifices of this monstrous conspiracy were played off before him .

The bishop of Poitiers deputed as principal exorcist Demorahs , one of the most declared of Grandier ' s enemies ; and from this moment all the world saw clearly that the ruin of the man was a thing resolved upon . He was now thrown into a prison at Loudun , with only such necessaries as nature demanded . From this mansion of misery he wrote a christianlike letter to his mother , betraying no symptoms of mental

perturbation or sorrow , requesting her to send him a bed and a bible , and to be comforted . No one was permitted to have the smallest concern with the prisoner but either his bitter enemies , or their immediate dependents ; and the surgeons and apothecaries whose reports were to certif y the state of the convent , were all chosen from among the most ignorant and prejudiced of the profession' ' r

. , , It was in vain that Daniel Roger , the physician of the town , and a man of considerable merit , endeavoured to resist such a confederacy of ignorance ; it was in vain that the devoted Grandier exclaimed against such an open injustice , M . de Laubardemont had now thrown off all regard to appearances , and hardly affected a colour of equity in of his It

any proceedings . was proposed to this cruel agent by those who yet hoped that the truth could interest him , to adopt a contrivance of St . Athanasius , who , when accused at the council of I yre of violating the innocence of a maid whom he had never seen and b y whom he was entirely unknown , put on a look of unconsciousness and answered his accuser not a word . Timotheus , how-, VOL . IV . ' T t

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TO OUR READERS, CORRESPONDENTS, &c. Article 2
PRICES OF BINDING PER VOLUME. Article 2
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THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE, OR GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY. Article 4
THE STAGE. Article 6
SKETCH OF THE CHARACTER OF THE LATE JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. Article 8
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RELIGIOUS AND MILITARY ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM. Article 10
ANECDOTE OF THE LATE SIR RICHARD ARKWRIGHT. Article 19
ANTICIPATION. Article 20
EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF THE LATE MR. BOWYER, PRINTER, OF LONDON. Article 22
CURIOUS PARTICULARS RESPECTING THE LAST KING OF CORSICA. Article 23
SPECIMEN OF AN. INTENDED HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Article 26
THE FREEMASON. Article 30
STORY OF URBAIN GRANDIER. Article 33
BASEM; OR, THE BLACKSMITH. AN ORIENTAL APOLOGUE. Article 39
ACCOUNT AND DESCRIPTION OF THE CHAPEL OF ROSLIN, &c. Article 46
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. Article 50
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BANKRUPTS. Article 73
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Story Of Urbain Grandier.

possessed , and the ladies had somewhat improved themselves in the parts they were to play . _ Tneeardinal trusted entirely to M . de Laubardemtfht the execution of his vengeance , who returned to Loudun with a full commission to bring Grandier to his trial , and to decide finally on each articleof the accusation . The first step of this ministe to order

r was Grandier to prison , without waiting for any information against him , who , though forewarned of this intention in time to make his escape , disdained to confess himself a culprit by flying the face of justice . He was seized the next morning before ' it was li ght , as he walked to his church to assist at matins , and was immediately conveyed to the castle at Angerswhere he lay in adungeon for three monthsHere

, . . he composed a volume of prayers and meditations , which breathed nothing but piety , forgiveness , and resignation ; a composition of great elegance both for diction and sentiment , and which looked very little like the production of a magician ' s brain . This work , which was exhibited on his trial , operated as little in his favour as ' the testimony of his confessor , who visited him in prison . His enemies were to

. sworn destroy him . Some feeble struggles were made for the poor ecclesiastic b y his aged mother , who presented several appeals in vain . He was tried on the 19 th of December 16 33 , on the grounds of the supposed possessions : and Grandier , though surrounded with bitter enemies , and with a miserable death staring him in the face , wore a countenance serene and unmoved , while the villanous artifices of this monstrous conspiracy were played off before him .

The bishop of Poitiers deputed as principal exorcist Demorahs , one of the most declared of Grandier ' s enemies ; and from this moment all the world saw clearly that the ruin of the man was a thing resolved upon . He was now thrown into a prison at Loudun , with only such necessaries as nature demanded . From this mansion of misery he wrote a christianlike letter to his mother , betraying no symptoms of mental

perturbation or sorrow , requesting her to send him a bed and a bible , and to be comforted . No one was permitted to have the smallest concern with the prisoner but either his bitter enemies , or their immediate dependents ; and the surgeons and apothecaries whose reports were to certif y the state of the convent , were all chosen from among the most ignorant and prejudiced of the profession' ' r

. , , It was in vain that Daniel Roger , the physician of the town , and a man of considerable merit , endeavoured to resist such a confederacy of ignorance ; it was in vain that the devoted Grandier exclaimed against such an open injustice , M . de Laubardemont had now thrown off all regard to appearances , and hardly affected a colour of equity in of his It

any proceedings . was proposed to this cruel agent by those who yet hoped that the truth could interest him , to adopt a contrivance of St . Athanasius , who , when accused at the council of I yre of violating the innocence of a maid whom he had never seen and b y whom he was entirely unknown , put on a look of unconsciousness and answered his accuser not a word . Timotheus , how-, VOL . IV . ' T t

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