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 ,90 LANGUEDOC. mercifully sentenced the old man to perpetual banishment from France within thirty days.* Another endeavor was made by Clement to repress the abuses of the Inquisition by transferring from its jurisdiction to that of the bishops the Jews of the provinces of Toulouse and Narbonne on account of the undue molestation to which they were continu- ally subjected. This transfer even included cases then pending, but after Clement's death a bull was produced in which he an- nulled the previous one and restored the jurisdiction of the Inqui- sition.f The outcome of all this struggle and investigation is to be found in the measures of reform adopted in 1312 by the Council of Yienne at Clement's instance. The five books of canon law known as the " Clementines," which were enacted by the council, were retained for revision by Clement, who was on the point of publishing them when he died, April 20, 1314. They were held in suspense during the long interregnum which followed, and were not authoritatively given to the world until October 25, 131T, by John XXII. The canons relating to the Inquisition have been alluded to above, and it will be remembered that they only re- stricted the power of the inquisitor by requiring episcopal concur- rence in the use of torture, or of harsh confinement equivalent to torture, and in the custody of prisons. There was a hrutum ful- men of excommunication denounced against those who should abuse their power for purposes of hate, affection, or extortion, and the importance of the whole hes far less in the remedies it proposes than in its emphatic testimony of the existence of cruelty and fonds latin, No. 11847.^Lib. Sententt. Inq. Tolos. pp. 228, 266-7, 282-5.-Coll. Doat, XXXII. 309, 316.— Vaissette, td. Privat, X. Pr. 526. t Archives de Tlnq. de Carcassonne (Doat, XXXVII. 255). The Inquisition seems to have by some means acquired jurisdiction over the Je^ s of Languedoc. In 1279 there is a charter granted by Bernard, Abbot of S Antonin of Pamiers, to the Jews of Pamiers, approving of certain statutes agreed upon among themselves concerning their internal affairs, thus showing • them subjected to the abbatial jurisdiction. Yet in 1297 we have a letter from the inquisitor, Fr^re Arnaud Jean, ordering the Jews of Pamiers to live accord- ing to the customs of the Jews of Narbonne, and promising not to mtroduce " aliquas graves et insolitas novitatesr During the interval they had thus passed into the hands of the Inquisition.— Coll. Doat, XXXVII. 156, 160.
 * Arch de rinq. de Care. (Doat, XXXI. 74; XXXIV. 89).-MSS..Bib. Nat.,