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 TURELUPIKS. ^ >.. teen days, in order that he might accompany his partner in guilt m the flames. That such a spectacle was sufliciently infrequent tc render it a matter of importance is shown by its being recorded in the doggerel of a contemporary chronicler— "L'an MDCCCLXXII. je vous dis tout pour voir Furent les Turelupins condannez pour ardoir, Pour ce qu'ils desvoient le peuple it decepvoir Par feaultes heresies, I'Eveque en soult levoir." The sect was a stubborn one, however, especiaUy in Germany as we shall see hereafter, and in the early part of the next century Chancellor Gerson still considers it of sufficient importance to combat Its errors repeatedly. Its mystic libertinism was danger- ously seducmg, and he was especially alarmed by the incredible sub tlety with which it was presented in a book written by a woman known as Mary of Valenciennes. In May, 1421, twenty-flve of these sectaries were condemned at Douai by the Bishop of Arras Twenty of them recanted and were penanced with crosses and bamshment or imprisonment, but five were stubborn and sealed tHeir faith with martyrdom in the flames.* In 1381 Frere Jacques de More had a more illustrious victim m Hugues Aubriot. A Burgundian by birth, Aubriot's energy and ability had won for him the confidence of the wise Kin^ Charles, who had made him Pr^vot of Paris. This ofiice he filled with unprecedented vigor. To him the city owed the first system of sewerage that had been attempted, as well as the Bastille, which he built as a bulwark against the Enghsh, and he imposed some hmitation on the flourishing industry of the Jllles de vie. His good government gained him the respect and affection of the peLle but he made a r^on^^^^^^^^^^^^^^,^ ^^ disregarding Lib!Tf (E'^IS^'o'^^^^Fr^^^^ H-'- Fraucor. 1^10. IX. c. 2. (Ed. 1576, p. ]58).-Meyeri Annal. Flandr. Lib. xiir ann 1370 Du Cauge s. .. r«W„;,e«.-Gorsoni de Cousolat. Theolog. Lib ,v Prol o~ Ejusd. de Mystica Theol. Specul, P. i. Consid 8 • Eiusd de ni«r V ' Vis.^o„guu.. 5.-.HLyer, Pr.curseu;:;Sfor^^^^^ Probably there may be some connectioD between the TureluDin/!nH, wandering bands known as "^. P««nW;«" and susltid of here 7 /" ber of these, named Bidon de Puy-Gui,.em, of the dioc of Bord a,f. t^T