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 578 APPENDIX. quisitor quod dicta Margarita dictum librum in suo consimili eosdem continen- tem errores post ipsius libri condempnationem reverendo patri Domino Jo. Dei gratia Cathalaunensi episcopo communicavit ac nedum dicto domino sed et pluribus aliis personis simplicibus, begardis et aliis tanquam bonum. Consul- tatio autem ex predictis resultans per prefatum inquisitorem ut pertactum est nobis facta talis est : Videlicet, utrum in talibus dicta beguina debeat relapsa judicari ? Nos autem fidei catholice zelatores, veritatisque canonice professores qualescumque consultationi predicte respondentes, dicimus quod ipsa beguina. supposita veritate facti precedentis, judicanda est relapsa et merito relinquenda est curie seculari. In cujus rei testimonium sigilla nostra presentibus apposui- mus. Datum anno Domini MCCC decimo sabbato post festum beati Joannis ante portam latinam.* IX. Exequatur of an Inquisitor issued by Philippe le Bon of Burgundy. (MSS. Bib. Nat., fonds Moreau, 444 fol. 10.) Philippus universis et singulis seueschallis, baillivis, scultetis, officiariis et justiciariis nostris praesentibus et futuris, et locatenentibus eorumdem per ducatus et districtus nostras infra dyoceses Cameracensis et Leodiensis constitutes, ad quos prsesentes nostrae litterae pervenerint salutem et omne bonum. Cum religio- sus dilectusque noster frater (Henricus) Kaleyser sacrae theologiae professor or- dinis fratrum praedicatorum inquisitor baereticae pravitatis per proviucialem pro- vinciae Theotoniae in praedictis Cameracensi et Leodiensi dyocesibus auctoritate apostolica specialiter deputatus pro Dei servitio et cultu seu exaltatione sanctae fidei orthodoxae utque ipsum haeresis crimen a dictis partibus quibus presidemus si forsan alicubi vigeat seu inoleat valeat extirpare ad loca seu partes nostrae ju- risdictioni subjectas et vobis commissas declinare quisquam habeat seu etiam pro- ficisci nosque velut princeps catholicus qui de manu altissimi multa bona vari- osque honores recognoscimus recipisse in praedictis et aliis qui divinum continue obsequium complacere ut convenit plurimura cupiantes intendimus ymo et volu- mus favorabilem dare locum, ipsumque inquisitorem tanquam Dei specialem ministrum nostris prosequi gratiis et favoribus optamus ideo vobis et cuilibet vestrura qui super hoc fueritis requisiti seu fuerit requisitus, districte praecipiendo there is a brief addressed September 3, 1310, to the Inquisitor of Laugres ordering him to proceed vigorously against the heretics of ttiat diocese who have been reported by the bishop as multiplying so that, unless prompt measures are taken, grave injury to the faith is to be apprehended. The nature of the heresy is not described, but it was probably that of the Brethren of the Free Spirit which Marguerite la Porete had been disseminating throughout that region. The incident has further interest as showing how completely the French episcopate had transferred to the Inquisition its jurisdiction over heresy, in spite of its renewed ac- tivity at the moment in the affair of the Templars.
 * In the Register of Clement V., received since the text of this volume was in type,