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 ROME DISREGARDS THE COMPACTATA. 545 Moldavia, in spite of the labors of the friars, and he recurs to the question which baffled Giaoomo della Marca. Many parish priests He says, m these regions not only keep concubines publicly, but teach that there is no sin in intercourse between unmarried per- sons; the question has been asked him whether this is heresy ius- ticiable by the Inquisition ; this he answers in the affirmative and authonzes Fabiano and his deputies to treat it as such. Appar- ently It was not the practice itself, but the justification of it, which ■was so hemous.* ' If Eome was thus active in repressing Hussitism, and thus re- ^rdless of the Compactata while crippled by the quarrel with the fa hers of Basle, it may readily be imagined that, after the abdi- ^t.on of Felix V. and the restoration of unquestioned supremacy Nicholas V. was not disposed to respect the bargain made by the council or to regard the Calixtins in any light but that of here- tics. It was m vain that the Bohemians proffered obedience if only the Compactata were confirmed, with a tacit condition that Eokyzanas clams to the archbishopric should be recognized OS ensibly the sole difficulty in the way of reunion lay in the use of the cup by the laity and the communion of infants; save this there was by this time but little to distinguish the Cahxtins from the rest of the Latin churches, although occasionally the question of the sequestrated church lands emerged into view. The papacy had taken its position, however, and it would have plunged aU Christendom into war, as, in fact, it more than once attempted rather than admit tHat the Council of Basle had been justified in purchasing pea<5e by conceding communion in both elements Be l^ni?^' ^'^^ ^"" *^"*^^"on of Eokyzana's confirmation, ^neas Sylvius informs us that in 1451 he convinced Geor<.e Po- diebrad of the impossibility of effecting this, and secured a prom- ise that the attempt should be abandoned, he pledging hLse^ .hat If George would present the names of several suifabfe peTsons the pope would select one, and peace would then be established This treated the Compactata as of minor importance, and was • Wadding, ann. 1437, No. 13-21; ann. 1438, No. 12-16 • ann 1439 No 4, « ann. 1440, No. 7 ; ann. 1444, No. 44 ; ann. 1446, No. 10 -Herburt de Fut^ t ' tuta Regni Po.onl., Sa.oscii, 1597, p. 192.LRaynald at. ije J 10 Themer Monument. SlaTor. Meridian I 394 ' II.-35