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THE SPANISH PENINSULA. to be punished as they deserve, to teach them reverence and fear. StiUmre significant is the injunction on parish pnests to receive Uindirand aid efficiently the beloved Dominican mqmsitors, who are laboring for the --'^^^^^^^^'^ninrj there would ap- With the openmg ot the tourteenm cemui^ u i vvitutuc 1 o -p Bernardo cele- near to be an increase oi vigor, m lou^ -^ „ , pear lo w <x, number of heretics were brated several autos defe, m M «^ «  abandoned to the secular arm. In 1304 i ra ijomiu o tno had an auto in which we are told that those who were not burned were banished, with the assent of King Jayme II - one of the rare instances of this punishment in the annals of the ZIZ^ In 1314 Fray Bernardo Puigcercos was so fortunate ^Hod cover a number oi heretics, of whom he burned some and exiled others. To Juan de Longerio, in 1317. belongs the doij^t- M honor of condemning the works of Arnaldo de Vilanova. T e names of Arnaldo Burguete, Guillen de Costa, and Leonardo de Pu^erda have also reaLd us, as successful inquisitors but ^hei recorded labors were prinoipaUy directed against the Spiritual Prliscans, and will be more particularly -f V'oTthe In JS Aragonese seem not to have relished the methods ot the Inqu.si to for in 1325 the Cortes, with the assent of Kmg Jayme IL, rohiWted for the future the use of the inquisitorial process and prohibitea lor iii« -p-.ipros Whether or not this was of torture, as violations of the i ueros. » neuit intended to apply to the ecclesiastical as well as to the secular courtslt is impossible now to tell, but, if it were, it had no perma- nenfresiit as we learn from the detailed instructions of Eymericl fifty yeat'later. About the middle of the -tuiT .^^^ --t the Inquisitor Nicholas Roselli earned him the cardinalate^ It is true th^ when the energetic action of the Inquisitor Jean Dumou- in in 1344 drove the Waldenses from Toulouse to seek refuge ' /the Pv^enees Clement VI.. wrote earnestly to the kings 'rllates oHragon and Navarre to aid the Inquisition m dSroJgle fugitives, but there is no trace of any correspond- ' "^Trrselli, howe^el^telong^_th^^l^^ raising a question t Llorente, Ch. in. Art. ik No. 4 5 9 11 12 14. fy^ ^^^ ^.3,,^ p. 265.-RipoU H. 245.-Zunta, Anales, Lib. vi. c. bl. u j