Final sentence by the judge and by his four counsellors, 4 June 1734.

To All those that the Present Letters will reach, Greetings. We Pierre Raimbault King's counsellor Lieutenant General, Civil Et Criminel, at the seat of the Jurisdiction Royal of Montreal, do let it be Known that having examined the Complaint filed by The King's prosecutor at This seat, plaintiff And accuser, Against The woman named Marie Joseph Angelique, Negress of Nation And Slave of dame Thereze de Couagne widow of Sieur françois poulin francheville, And the man named

Claude Thibault, Defendants accused of having set fire to the house of the Said dame widow francheville And Having Caused the Burning of part of This city, The night of the ten to eleven of April Last, At the bottom of which Is our Ordinance Granting Permission To inform of the facts contained in the Said Complaint And, under provision, to Ordain that the Said Negress And the said Thibault Be arrested And Taken to the royal Gaol of This city to Be heard And Interrogated On the facts

Contained therein; the report of The Arrest of the said negress by bailiff De Coste And the Imprisonment of her person as On The Register of the Gaol With Notice thereof served to the Said Negress, All on the said eleventh Day of April; Our Ordinance to call forth The witnesses on the same Day; Interrogation of the said Negress on the Twelfth Conducted before us and Containing her avowals Confessions And Denials, Beneath which Is our Signature, Communicated to the said King's prosecutor on the same Day; Findings by the said King's prosecutor On the thirteenth; Our ordinance Appearing Below,

from the same Day, stating that the said Negress Would be Interrogated anew and Served Notice of such If Not yet Done; the report made of the Search for the Person of the said Thibault by bailiffs Marchand and De Coste on the said Days of the twelve and thirteen of the Said month of April; witnesses called forth by the said Marchand, Information By Us done on The fourteen And fifteen of the Said month; Findings by the said King's prosecutor On the Sixteenth; Request by the said King's prosecutor that an addition of Information be done, Below which Is our ordinance granting Permission to Inform By

Addition on the twenty-ninth; Our ordinance to have come forth The said witnesses on the said Day; summonses to the said Witnesses on The thirtieth of the Said month of April last by the said de Coste; addition of Information by us done on The first of May last, Below which Is our signature, Communicated to the King's prosecutor; and Then The Findings of the said King's prosecutor from the Said day; Interrogation Before us of the Said Negress on The third of the Said month, Below which Is our signature, Communicated to the King's prosecutor; the summonses delivered by

the said De Coste on the Fifth of the Said month to the witnesses To Be heard in the Addition; the Addition of Information On the six of the said month, Below Which is our signature, Communicated to the King's prosecutor; Interrogation Before Us of the said Negress Containing her avowals, Confessions And Denials of the said Day, Below Which Is our signature, communicated to the King's prosecutor; Findings of the said King's prosecutor And our decree by which we ordered that the said thibault Be summoned in a fortnight And this by a Sole

Public Cry in eight days and that Nevertheless The witnesses heard And others to Be heard will be Re-examined And if Required, Confronted with the Said Negress, All On the Same Day; notice Given to the said thibault to Appear in a fortnight by bailiff De Coste on the eight of the said month; our ordinance of the said eighth Day to bring forth again the said witnesses for their Re-examination; summonses delivered to the said witnesses by the said De Coste And Marchand, on The Twelve, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, And twenty-Seven of the said month;

Re-examination of the said witnesses on the twelve, thirteen, fourteen And fifteen, seventeen, And twenty-Seven of the said month, below Which Is our Signature, Communicated to the King's prosecutor; Interrogation of the said negress on the fourteen of the said month Below which Is our Signature, Communicated to the King's prosecutor on the same Day; our ordinance to call forth witnesses; summons delivered by the said de Coste to a witness to testify On the fifteen of the Said month; addition of Information on the said fifteenth Day Below which Is our Signature, Communicated to the King's prosecutor;

On the same day; another our ordinance of the eighteen to bring forth new witnesses and the summonses on the same day by the said de Coste And the Addition of Information On the nineteen Below which Is our Signature, Communicated to the King's prosecutor; summons of the said thibault by Public Cry in eight days by bailiff Marchand on the twenty-Five of the Said month; another Ordinance to have brought forth new witnesses to Depose On the twenty-Six of the said month; summons of a witness on the said Day; Addition of Information by us done the same Day 26th May, Below which Is our Signature, Communicated to the King's prosecutor; Our Ordinance

To have Some witnesses Re-examined, summonses delivered to the said witnesses by the said De Coste, All Dated the said twenty-six Day of May; Summonses to [illegible word] the witnesses heard to proceed according to the previous summonses given for the re-examination And the Confrontation of witnesses with the said accused On the Twelve, fourteen, fifteen And seventeen and twenty-seven of the said month of May below which is our signature, communicated to the King's prosecutor; The Findings of the King's prosecutor of the 23rd of the said month of May; Interrogation on the said 27th of the Said accused On the Criminal Seat In the Chambre du Conseil and Containing Her avowals, Confessions, And Denials. Confrontation of the said accused with a witness heard at the Information along with a summons

given to the said witness to this effect on the Second of This month; our ordinance To Compel a witness to appear immediately in order to Be Confronted with the said accused, And The Confrontation of the said accused along with our ordinance Communicated to the King's prosecutor; Next the Findings of the said King's prosecutor, And another Interrogation of the said accused on the criminal seat in our said Chambre de Conseil, All taking place on This day.

And everything Considered, We have Declared the Said accused, Marie Joseph angelique Sufficiently guilty And Convicted of Having set fire to the house of dame francheville Causing the Burning of a portion of the city. In Reparation for which we have Condemned her to make honourable amends Disrobed, a Noose around her Neck, and carrying In her hands a flaming torch weighing two pounds

before the main door and Entrance of the parish Church of This city where She will be taken And Led, by the executioner of the high Court, in a Tumbrel used for garbage, with an Inscription Front And Back, with the word, Incendiary, And there, bare-headed, And On her Knees, will declare that She maliciously set the fire And Caused the Said Burning, for which She repents And Asks Forgiveness from the Crown And Court, and this done, will have her fist Severed On a stake Erected in front of the Said Church. Following which, she will be led by the said Executioner in the same tumbrel to the Public Place to there Be bound to the Stake with iron shackles And Burned alive, her Body then Reduced To Ashes And Cast to the Wind, her Belongings taken And Remanded to the King, the said accused having previously been subjected to torture in the ordinary And Extraordinary ways in order to have her

Reveal her Accomplices, And as for the said thibault we have ordained that the Re-examination of the witnesses will stand as Confrontation against the said thibault, so that after the torture of the said Negress, And her Interrogation Communicated to the King's prosecutor, with the procedure of Contumacy, and All reported, We will proceed with the Judgement of the said Contumacy; as is required. Dated and Presented at Montreal In the said Chambers by Us the aforementioned Lieutenant General assisted by Maitre Jean Baptiste Adhemar, Nicolas auguste Guillet de Chaumon, René gaudron de Chevremont and francois le pallieur royal notaries And practitioners At This Seat who have Signed along with us The present Judgment on The four of June Seventeen Hundred and thirty-four before noon.

[signed] Adhemar                  [signed] Chaumont
[signed] F Pallieur                  [signed] Gaudron De Chevremont
[signed] P. Raimbault             [signed] C. Porlier
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Source: Archives nationales du Québec, Centre de Montréal, Procedure Criminel contre Marie Joseph Angélique negresse - Incendiere, 1734, TL4 S1, 4136, Juridiction royale de Montréal, Final sentence by the judge and by his four counsellors, June 4, 1734.

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