[365] Moeller, op. cit., p. 740. ‘The spirit of the inquisitors is another matter. There is room for distrust of their propensity to discover heresies everywhere. Their amour propre was engaged to discover it under the most puzzling appearances.’
[366] See J. à Royas, De Haereticis, in Zilettus, vol. xi, pt. ii, pp. 212-24 (passim); Albertini, op. cit., p. 53; Ludovico à Paramo, p. 544. See both Royas and Albertini passim on the general question of how to recognize a heretic, also Simancas in tit. xxxi.
[367] Simancas, p. 155.
[368] Eymeric, Directorium, p. 343. ‘Haeretici affirmativi dicti sunt, qui habent eorum quae sunt fidei, errorem in mente, et verbo vel facto ostendunt, se modis praedictis habere pertinaciam in voluntate.’—‘Negativi vero haeretici dicti sunt, qui coram judice fidei per testes legitimos de aliqua haeresi, vel errore, quos nolunt vel non possunt repellere, rite sive juste convicti sunt, sed non confessi, immo in negativa constanter perseverant; verbo fidem catholicam profitentur et detestantur etiam verbo haereticam pravitatem.’ Cf. p. 561.
[369] Lea, vol. i, pp. 433-4. ‘That a man against whom nothing substantial was proved should be punished merely because he was suspected of guilt may seem to modern eyes a scant measure of justice; but to the inquisitor it appeared a wrong to God and man that any one should escape against whose orthodoxy there rested a shadow of doubt. Like much else taught by the Inquisition, this found its way into general criminal laws, which it perverted for centuries.’
[370] Simancas in Zilettus, vol. xi, pt. ii, pp. 133-5. See Tanon, p. 334.
[371] See Douais, L’Inquisition, Appendix, p. 276, Raymond of Peñaforte’s ruling.
[372] See Mansi, vol. xxiii, p. 360. Council of Narbonne, 1235. ‘Quinam existimandi fautores haereticorum.’ A sin in the eyes of the Church; and, it should be added, highly improper and dangerous conduct probably in the eyes of the average man in those days.
[373] Albertini in Zilettus, vol. xi, pt. ii, p. 82.
[374] Ludovico à Paramo, op. cit., pp. 37, 45.