[245] 48th Epistle to Vincentius.
[246] 50th Epistle to Boniface.
[247] Epistle 185, n. 26. Also Epistle 93, n. 10.
[248] See Lea, vol. i, p. 213; Maillet, p. 17, and De Cauzons, vol. i, pp. 186-8.
[249] See Lea, vol. i, p. 215; Maillet, pp. 17 et seq.; Vacandard, pp. 27-30. ‘Nor were they [the bishops] content with merely accepting it [the aid of the secular arm]. They declared that the State had not only the right to help the Church in suppressing heresy, but that she was in duty bound to do so.’ See also De Cauzons, vol. i, p. 189 n., and P. Frédéricq, Les récents historiens catholiques de l’inquisition en France, in Revue historique (vol. cix, Jan.-April, 1912), p. 314.
[250] This suggestion is made by J. Havet in his L’Hérésie et le Bras séculier au Moyen Age in [OE]uvres (Paris, 1896), vol. ii, p. 131.
[251] See ibid., p. 138.
[252] Vacandard, op. cit., p. 33.
[253] Havet, pp. 129-34.
[254] I.e. in the langue d’oïl of France, in Flanders, Germany, Burgundy.