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LANGUEDOC. i4 Clermont the syndic of the convent, was deputed by the Gi^ardian Oiermoni, lue ^y Meanwhile Nicholas had of Narbonne to co-operate with him. *®^^^^" Bernard proceeded to condemnation, and when, July 4, 1300, Bernard and Eleazar presented themselves to offer the testimony o the Sarfwho hfd watched the dying man, Nicholas received th^n sanding, refused to listen to them, and on their urging their e i- dence "e t the room in the most contemptuous manner. In the afternoon they returned to ask for a certificate of their offer and its refusal, but found the door of the Inquisition closed, and could not effect an entrance. „„^ ooV The next step was to take an appeal to the Holy See and ask for ' Apostoh," but this was no easy matter. So general was the terror inspired by Nicholas that the doctor of decretals, Jean de PeTne toChomV applied to draw the paper, refused unless h'sname should be kept inviolably secret, and nineteen years after^ wards Bernard when on trial refused to reveal it untd compelled 0^0 so To obtain a notary to authenticate the appeal was still harder All those in Carcassonne absolutely refused, and it was Wnectssary to bring one from a distance, so that it^vas no un- til July 16 that the document was ready for serv ce. Ho« ser.ous 1 V Meed all parties regarded what should have been a very simple l^nt: 1; sho'wn by le winding-up of the appeaWhi^^^^^^^^^^^^ until the case is decided, not only the body of Castel Fabri, but the appellants and the whole Franciscan convent, under he pro- te^ion of the Holy See. When they went to serve the instrument on Mcholas the doors, as before, were found closed and entrance could not be effected. It wa. therefore read in the street and lef acted on the door, to be taken down and trea^red and brought tacKeu on m T?„vnard in 1319. We have no further forward in evidence against Bernard mwi». . .. ^ records of the case, but that the appeal was meffeotual i^ M^ib e Hhe fact that in 1322-3 the accounts of Arnaud Assalit show thatihe royal treasury was still receiving an income rom the that the roya^ j ^^^ ^^^^ unsatis- conflscated estates of Castel J^abri, wnii«  fied vengeance of the Inquisition ordered the bones of his wiie ■ Kixende to be exhumed.* . MSS. Bib. Nat., {o~i:^.s^^*^^:^^^^^^^^^^^^ '""^ -'"'■ Doat, XXVII. 178; XXXIV. 12S, 189. Circassonne was the As late as 1838 the confiseated house of Castel Fabn at C~nne subject of a reclamation by Pierre de Manse who claimed that Ph.lippc I