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 136 FRANCE and thieves of the government, with '^X'T'^'T^lit^Z^- lor, were dismissed in 1413, greatly to the discontent of *e co^ er, who ridiculed the theologians as bookworms ; and m the same v2 it co-operated with the Parleinent in securmg momentary J ace betweL the angry factions of the land. The t^^n « whjch the heir-apparent, the Duke of Guienne, accompamed bj the Duke, of Berri, Burgundy, Bavaria, and Bar solemnly rendered to he assembled Faculty, virtually recognized it as a V-r^^oi th.^^^ But when, in 1415, it sent a deputation to ^'-^^^f^f^^f^^l^, oppression of the people through excessive taxation, the Duke of oppresbioii ui u f f n w thout consult- Guienne, who was angry at the part taKen oy lu, > L the court, in degrading John XXIII. at the Council of Con- duce clly' told ?he spokesmen that they were -^-f-ig >n matter beyond their competence ; and when the offlcuil orator Tttempted to reply, the duke had him arrested on the spot and "^Z^ 'Z^ a^wL to rival the Parlement in state affairs wts fortunately not gratified, in theology such a body as t£ walsupreme. It would naturally be called upon, either as a whole or by delegates, to furnish the experts whose counsel was To gu'de bishop and inquisitor in the decision of cases ; and as the oW heresies died out and new ones were evolved, every deviation ? 1 orthodoxy came to be submitted to it as a matter of coui^e Xn Hs decision was received as final. These were for th, most ^art scholastic subtleties to which I shall -- hfafte^^^^^^^^^ L to the great controversies over the Immaculate Conception ot L V rgin and over Nominalism and Eeahsm, m which it took a iistiniuihed part. Sometimes, however, the questions were more paS wL some insolent wretch, in ^^^ Vmpuf t y t^d Frere Pierre de Voie, the deputy-inquisitor of Evreux, that ms Sons wi; simply 'abuses, the offended f-tiona^^^ J J-^^*. Tiromptlv clapping the recalcitrant into prison, plaintneij re ?3the cl to%he University, and had the satisfaction of re- cevi a solemn decision that the words were audacious pre- ■ ^mptuous, scandalous, and tending to rebeUion (it did not say heretical), and that the utterer was hable to punishment. Be,- VI. Liv. XXXII. ch. 14; xxxiii. ch. 1, 15, 16; xxxv. ch. 18.