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 CONRAD OF MARBURG'S PROCEEDINGS. 337 rad eagerly swallowed the bait, and sent her with his assistants to Ciavelt, whence she came, where she caused the burning of her kindred. Then there was a certain Amfrid, who finally confessed that he had led Conrad to condemn a number of innocent men. Creatures of this kind were sure not to be lacking, and it was even said that cunning heretics caused themselves to be accused, and accepted penance, for the purpose of incriminating Catholics, and thus rendering the whole proceeding odious. As no one had the shghtest opportunity of defence, some steadfast men preferred to be burned and thus earn salvation, rather than to confess to lies and falsely accuse others. The Aveaker ones who saved their lives, when pressed to name their accompUces, would often say, " I know not whom to accuse : tell me the names of those you suspect f or, when interrogated about individuals, would evasively reply, '' They were as I was ; they were in the assemblies as I was,"' which was apparently sufficient. " Thus," proceeds the official report to the pope, " brother accused brother, the wife the hus- band, and the master the servant. Others gave money to the shaven penitents in order to learn from them methods of evasion and escape, and there arose a confusion unknown for ages. I, the archbishop, first by myself and afterwards with the two arch- bishops of Treves and Cologne, warned Master Conrad to pro> ceed in so great a matter with more moderation and discretion but he refused." * ' It would seem from this that Henry, Archbishop of Cologne, was performin^^ his functions at this period, although he had been suspended by Gregory IX in December, 1231, pending an investigation into his criminal turpitude, which the pope declared to be a shame to describe and a horror to hear. In April 1238, Gregory tried to make him resign, to which he responded in June by an appeal to the Holy See. The immediate consequence of this was a papal levy on the clergy of Cologne of three hundred sterling marks to defray expenses. In March of the next year further provision for the expenses was requisite. In April 1235, we find him still under excommunication and deprived of his functions' After this he seems to have re-established himself, and in March, 1238 he was con- demned to pay thirteen hundred sterling marks to a Roman banker for expenses mcurred many years before by his predecessor. In May, 1239, we find his succes- sor, Conrad von Hochstaden, in Rome as archbishop-elect, and Gregory orderin o- a levy of eight thousand marks on the province to pav the debts due there by the Tee (Epistt. Select. Saecul. XIII. T. I. No. 457, 472, 523, 529-30, 555. 579, 637 723 748) II.— 22 ' », ;•
 * Alberic Trium Font. ann. 1234.-Godefrid S. Pantaleon. annal. aon. 1233