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 230 ^^^"'■ and Provence. One of his confidential servitors was a certain Bereno-er, who had been condemned for heresy. Alexander lost no tinTe ik repeating with him the comedy of an mqms,tonal tnal, .vhich we have seen performed with Ezzelm. D-^J^j/'f ^^ he addressed instructions to the inquisitors of Lombardy to cite him from some safe place, to the papal presence withm t^^o months offering him a safe-conduct for coming (but not for going), when 5 ^e canVove his innocence he will be admitted to swear obedience to the papal mandates. If he does not appear, he is to be proceeded against inquisitorially.* Uberto cared as little as Ezzelin for the impotent papal thun- der and quietly went on strengthening his position and adding dtv after city to his dominions, in spite of Alexander s instructions to K^Vnerio Ll his inquisitors to a«t vigorously and to preach a crusade Between his success in the north, and the daily ex end- i™Tnfluence of Manfred's wise and vigorous rule m the south, it ookelfor a while as though the ambitious designs of the papacy
 * e permLntly crushedrand that the Italian Inquisition might

come to an uJmely end. Inquisitors were no longer able to Ive around in safety, even in the Roman province, and prelates Td ciUes were ordered to provide them with a suificient guard in aS thJ ournevs. An indication of the popular feeling is afforded bv the a tion tken in 1264 by the people of Bergamo greatly to Se !::dignation of the Roman curia, to defend «-seh.s ag.^^^^^ the arbitrary methods of inquisitorial procedure. Thej enacted tiat anv one cited or excommunicated for heresy or fautorsh.p might tike an oath before the prosecutor or bishop that he he d le faith of the Church of Rome in all its details, and then anoth- e oath before the podesta binding himself to pay one hundred Is every time that he deviated from it; after this he could not be Sd out'side of the city, and was ^^^^^'^^^^1^71^1 within it while the magistrates were to defend him at the puD f expense against any such citation or excommunication, let St STuferto's teUries and influence the ^— - «f Inquisition in Lombardy went steadily --■ J^^f^^.^^^^^^^^^ OlLent IV is found issuing instructions as to the duties ana ap p^tmeTof inquisitor^a^^igorW^a^^ there were no . Arch, de rinquis. .le C.vcnssonc (T)ont, XXXI.).-Ripoll I. 400,