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32 LANGUEDOC. an offence so enormous. Even the smaUest derelictions of this sort were rigorously penanced. A citizen of Sauveterre had seen three heretics entering the house of a sick man, and heard that they had hereticated him, but knew nothing of his own knowledge, yet he was subjected to the disgrace of a penitential pilgrimage to Puy. Another, of Belcayre, had carried a message between two heretics, and was sent to Puy, St. Gilles, and ComposteUa. A physician of Montauban had bound up the arm of a heretic and was subjected to the same three pUgrimages, and the same penance was inflicted on a woman who had simply eaten at a table with heretics The same was prescribed in several cases of boatmen who had igno- rantly transported heretics, without recognizing them until the voyage was under way or finished. A woman who had eaten and drunk with another woman who she heard was a heretic was sen- tenced to the pilgrimages of Puy and St. Gilles, and the same pen- ance was ordered for a man who had once seen heretics, and for a woman who had consulted a Waldensian about her sick son. The AValdenses had great reputation as skilful leeches, and two men who had caUed them in for their wives and children were pen- anced with the pilgrimages of Puy, St. GiUes, and ComposteUa. A man who had seen heretics two or three times, and had already purchased reconciliation by a gift to a monastery, was sent on a Ions series of pUgrmiages, embracing both ComposteUa and Can- terbury, besides wearing the yellow cross for a year Another was sent to ComposteUa because he had once been thrown into company with heretics in a boat, although he had left them on hearing their heresies ; and yet another because, when a boy he had spent part of a day and night with heretics. One who had seen heretics when he was twelve years old was sent to Puy ; whUe a woman who had seen them in her fathei^s house was obliged to go to Puy and St. GUles. A man who had seen two heretics leaving a place which he had rented was sent to Compos- teUa, and another who had allowed his Waldensian mother to visit him and had given her an eU of cloth was forced to expiate it with pSr^ages to'puy, St. GiUes, and ComposteUa.* The list might be prolonged almost indefinitely, but these cases wiU suffice to . Coll. Doat, XXI. 210, 215, 216, 227, 229, 230, 238, 265, 283, 285, 293, 299, -300, 301, 305, 307, 308, 310.