The business of the court was continued from December 1455 to February 1456 with citations of the presumptive defendants, namely the present bishop of Beauvais, the present promotor of causes of Beauvais, and the nonexistent sub-inquisitor of the diocese of Beauvais. The promotor, Regnault Brédoulle, appearing for himself and the bishop, cooperated to the extent of declaring on February 17 that they would leave all defense to the judicial process that Bishop Cauchon produced, which could be considered a contesting of the case. Inquests of witnesses were set up in likely places, especially Rouen and Paris, and depositions gathered of over a hundred witnesses. The Estouteville inquest of 1452 was incorporated, but not that initiated by the king in 1450. A close look is provided into the testimony of Thomas de Courcelles. Other business of the court is summarized, up until July 2, including continuing declarations of contempt of the dummy defendants, with various productions of evidence and arguments. Finally, the judges’ promotor, Simon Chapitault, who should theoretically have been neutral, gave a statement saying that the evidence forced him to show the iniquity of the sentence in the original trial against Joan and to adhere to the plaintiffs’ side.