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 16S THE FRATICELLI. the full severity of the lavs. In 1354 two Tuscan Fraticelli, Gio- vanni da Castigiione and Francesco d' Arquata. were arrested at Montpellier for holding that John XXII. had forfeited his author- ity by altering the definitions of the bull Exiit, and that his suc- cessors were not the true Church. Innocent VI. caused them to be brought before him, but all efforts to make them recant were vain ; they went tranquilly to the stake, singing Gloria in excelsis, and were reverenced as martyrs by a large number of their brethren. Two others, named Jean de Xarbonne and Mau- rice had not long before met the same fate at Avignon. In north- ern France we hear little of the heresy. The only recorded case seems to be that of Denis Soulechat. a professor of the University of Paris, who taught in 1363 that the law of divine love does away with property, and that Christ and the apostles held none. Sum- moned by the Inquisitor Guillaume Eochin, he abjured before the Faculty and then appealed to the pope. At Avignon, when he endeavored to purge himself before an assembly of theologians, he only added new errors to his old ones, and was sent back to the Cardinal of Beauvais and the Sorbonne with orders to make him recant, and to punish him properly with the advice of the inquisitor. In 136S he was forced to a public abjuration.* In Spam a few cases show that the heresy extended across the Pyrenees. In Valencia, Fray Jayme Justi and the Tertianes Guillermo Gelabert and Marti Petri, when arrested by E. de Masqueta. commissioner of the Inquisitor Leonardo de Puycerda, appealed to Clement VI., who ordered the Bishop of Valencia to release them on their giving bail not to leave the city until their case should be decided at Avignon. They must have had wealthy disciples, for security was furnished in the heavy sum of thirty thousand sols, and they were discharged from prison. The papal court was in no hurry with the case — probably it was forgotten — when, in 1353, Clement learned that the two Tertiaries were dead, and that Justi was in the habit of leaving the city and spreading his pestiferous doctrines among the people. He therefore ordered chives de rinq. de Carcass. (Doat, XXXV. 130). — Mosheiins Ketz'-rgeschichte L 387. — Henr. Rebdorff Annal. ann. 1353 (Freher et Stray. I. 632).— Eymeric. p. 358.— D'Argentrg, I. i. 383-6.
 * Raynald. aim. 1336, Xo. 64; ann. 1351. Xo. 31; aim. 1368, Xo. 16-7.— Ar-