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 THE INQUISITION REINSTATED. 21 confer on him the advantage of release from their burdens. King Louis was also appealed to and was urged to hasten the marriage between his brother Alfonse and Raymond's daughter Jeanne. With the spectre of all Europe in arms looming up before him Raymond could do nothing but yield. When, therefore, the legate summoned him to meet the inquisitors at Carcassonne he meekly went there and conferred with them and the bishops. The con- ference ended with his promise to return the bishop and friars and clergy to Toulouse, and this promise he kept. The friars were duly reinstated September 4, after ten months of exile. That Guillem Arnaud returned with them is a matter of course.* Pierre Cella was still restricted to his diocese of Querci, and as Guillem required a colleague, a concession was made to popular feeling by the legate in appointing a Franciscan, it being imagined that the comparative mildness of that Order might serve to modify the hatred felt towards the Dominicans. The post was conferred on the provincial minister, Jean de l^otoyra, but his other duties were too enp:rossino;, and he substituted Frere fitienne de Saint-Thi- bery, who had the reputation of being a modest and courteous man. If hopes were entertained that thus the severity of the In- quisition would be tempered, they were disappointed. The two men worked cordially together, with a single purpose and perfect unanimity, t Guillem Arnaud's activity was untiring. During his exile in Carcassonne he occupied himself with the trial of the Seigneur de Niort, whom he sentenced in February or March, 1236.:}: In the «arly months of 1237 we hear of him in Querci, co-operating with Pierre Cella in harrying the heretics of Montauban. During his absence there occurred a crowning mercy in- Toulouse, which threw the heretics into a spasm of terror and contributed greatly to their destruction. Raymond Gros, who had been a perfected heretic for more than twenty years, one of the most loved and trusted leaders of the sect, was suddenly converted. Tradition relates that a quarter of a century before he had been seized and con- —Hist. Diplom. Frid. II. T. IV. P. ii. p. 912.— Vaissette, III. 408.— Pelisse Chron. pp. 40-1. t Pelisso Chron. p. 41-2. t Coll. Doat, XXI. 163.
 * Potthast No. 10152.— Epistt. Ssecul. XIII. T. I. No. 700 (Mon. Germ. Hist.).