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 LANGUEDOC whoUv upon the secular arm lor physical force. In some places, Is aS H might rely upon episcopal assistance, but elsewhere
 * couM di nothig of Itself. Philippe had, -re^e^;^- c^^^^^

ful not to excite the iU-wiU of his bishops, for his Ordonnances and instructions alluded simply to the friars thus excluding the toHion from roval aid without specifically nammg it. His aurefwih Boniface VIII. was now beginning. Between Janu- Ty S and February, 1297, appeared the celebrated bulls ^r. dslaicos, IneffabiUs amcrns, ExeUai nos, and EM^t ate, ^ hose Igant 'encrlchments on the secular P-er --^^^ -^ <;istance and this doubtless gave a sharper zest to his desire to diStn his dominions the authority of so purely papa an in- S^ as Se Inquisition. So shrewd a prince could readily see reffectiveness al an instrument of papal aggression, for the Church could make what definition it pleased of heresy and Boniface did not hesitate to give him fair warning, when, in Oc- fo"r 129^ he ordered the Inquisitor of Carcassomie to proceed lltast certain officials of Beziers who had rendered themselves rthepapl eyes suspect of heresy because they remained under excommunicato, incurred for imposing taxes on the clergy, boa V ZZZ food hai not lost its savor to them nor sleep its sweet- ^i ^d who, moreover, dared with polluted lips to revi e the Ho ; See sell Under such an extension of Jurisdiction Phihppe himself mSit not be safe, and it is no wonder that tentative ef- 1 • i!.r hi« hkhoDS and in the bull WoveriUs (July, li^T) ne ex emp'te/F" omthe operation of the Clericis ^«i... while m emptea .rrano^ r i^i^^j^^ew Ms arrogant preten-