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 DEATH OF COUNT RAYMOND. 47 officials of the Inquisition and the destruction of its records, giv- ing endless trouble in the effort to reconstruct the lists of sentences and the invaluable accumulation of evidence against suspects. Be this as it may, Innocent lY., at the request of the king, forbade the archbishop and inquisitors from further proceedings against heresy, and then empowered the Dominican Provincial of Spain and Raymond of Pennaforte to appoint new ones for the French possessions of Aragon.* When St. Louis undertook his disastrous crusade to Damietta he was unwiUing to leave behind him so dangerous a vassal as Raymond. The vow of service to Palestine had long since been remitted by Innocent lY., but the count was open to persuasion, and the bribes offered show at once the importance attached to his presence with the host and to his absence from home. The king promised him twenty thousand to thirty thousand livres for his expenses and the restitution of the duchy of JSTarbonne on his return. The pope agreed to pay him two thousand marks on his arrival beyond seas, and that he should have during his absence all the proceeds of the redemption of vows and all legacies bequeathed to the crusade. The prohibition of imposing penitential crusades on converted heretics was also suspended for his benefit, while the other long pilgrimages customarily employed as penances were not to be enjoined while he was in service. Stimulated by these dazzling rewards, he assumed the cross in earnest, and his ardor for the purity of the faith grew stronger. Even the tireless activity of Bernard de Caux was insufficient to satisfy him. While that incomparable persecutor was devoting all his energies to working up the results of his tremendous inquests, Raymond, early in 1248, complained to Innocent that the Inquisition was neglecting its duty ; that heretics, both living and dead, remained uncondemned ; that others from abroad were coming into his own and neighbor- ing territories and spreading their pestilence, so that the land which had been well-nigh purified was again filled with heresy, f Death spared Raymond the misfortunes of the ill-starred Egyp- tian crusade. When his preparations were almost complete he I. 210.— Arch, de Tlnq. de Carcassonne (Doat, XXXI. 105, 149).— Ripoll, 1. 184. t Vaissette, III. 455-6 ; Pr. 468, 469.— Arch, de I'lnq. de Care. (Doat, XXXI. 77, 79, 80).— Martene Thesaur. 1. 1040.
 * Vaissette, III. 457, 459 ; Pr. 467.— Guill. Pod. Laur. c. 48.— Baluz. et Mansi