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Rh The creation, in 1262, of the kingdom of Majorca, comprising the Balearic Isles, Kosellon, and Cerdaña, by Jayme I of Araogon for the benefit of his younger son Jayme, seemed to render a sepa- rate inquisition requisite for the new realm. At what time it was established is uncertain, the earliest inquisitor of Majorca on record being Fr. Ramon Durfort, whose name occurs as a witness on a charter of 1332, and he continued to occupy the position un- til 1343, when he was elected Provincial of Toulouse. From that time, at least, there is a succession of inquisitors, and the forcible reunion in 1348, by Pedro IV., of the outlying provinces to the crown of Aragon did not effect a consolidation of the tribunals As the Inqmsition declined in dignity and importance, indeed it seems to have sought a remedy in multiplying and localizing its offices. In 1413 Benedict XIII. (who was still recognized as pope in Aragon) made a further division by separating the coun- ties of Kosellon and Cerdaña from the Balearic Isles Frav Ber nardo Pages retaining the former, and Guillen Sagarra obtaining the latter Both of these were energetic men who celebrated a number of autos de fé, in which numerous heretics were reconciled or burned Sagarra was succeeded by Bernardo Moyl, and the lat- ter by Antonio Murta, who was confirmed in 1420 when Martin V approved of the changes made. At the same time Martin, at the request of the king and of the consuls of Valencia, erected that province also into a separate Inquisition. The Provincial of Ara gon appointed Fray Andrea Ros to fill the position ; he was con- firmed in 1433 by Eugenius IV., but was removed without cause assigned the next year by the same pope, although we are told that he inflexibly persecuted the "Bohemians" or "Wickliffites" with fire and sword. His successors, Domingo Corts and Antonio de Cremona, earned equal laurels in suppressing Waldenses *

A case occurring in 1423 would seem to indicate that the In- quisition had lost much of the terror which had rendered it for-

Rom. I 263.—Rioill II 268, 269, 270.—Martene Thesaur. II. 1181–2, 1182 bis 1189.—Raynald. ann. 1398, No. 23.—Wadding, ann. 1371, No. 14–24.—Paramo p. 111.—Pelayo, Heterodoxos Españoles, 1. 499–500, 528. Paramo,

II. 652).—Libell. de Magist. Ord. Prædic. (Martene Ampl Coll VI 432).—Paramo, pp. 179, 186–7.—Ripoll 11. 579, 594; III. 20, 28.—Monteiro; P. I, c. 30.— Llorente, Ch. in. Art. iii. No. 4, 8 II.—12
 * Dameto, Mut, y Alemany, Historia General de Mallorca (Ed. 1840, I. 101–3