[415] See Tanon, p. 433. Out of 200 cases before the Carcassonne tribunal there was only one acquittal.
[416] Ludovico à Paramo, p. 269.
[417] They were also, of course, a warning. ‘The punishment of one is the fear of many,’ remarks Simancas sententiously, Zilettus, vol. xi, pt. ii, p. 179. But the main object is repentance and conversion. Ibid., p. 181.
[418] Bernard Gui, Practica, p. 38.
[419] Ibid., pp. 94-8.
[420] See Douais, Documents, vol. ii, p. 181.
[421] Bernard Gui, Practica, p. 95; Liber Sententiarum in Limborch, Historia Inquisitionis, pp. 218, 347. For an instance of this sort of sentence, see Douais, Documents, vol. ii, pp. 116-17. ‘Injunctum fuit Ullixi in penitentia per inquisitores pro perjurio, quia non resumpsit cruces sicut juraverat, quod dominica post instantem dominicam in lxxa veniat Carcassonam visitaturus omnes ecclesias Burgi Carcassonensis nudis pedibus in camesis et braceis, cum virgis in manu, eundo de una ecclesia ad aliam; et idem faciet in prima dominica mensium singulorum quousque transeat ultra mare. Et hoc fuit ei injunctum in virtute praestiti juramenti.’
[422] Lea, vol. i, p. 464; De Cauzons, vol. ii, p. 303.
[423] Mansi, vol. xxiii, p. 271, § iv. Bernard Gui’s sentences are full of the infliction of this penance. Cf. Liber Sententiarum, pp. 40-5, 100-17, 185-91, 218-28.
[424] Mansi, vol. xxiii, p. 693. ‘Cum peccatores sint ad poenitentiam invitandi juxta Dominicam vocem, gaudere oportet si poenitentiam impositam libenter suscipiunt et supportant. Quocirca statuimus, & in virtute sancti Spiritus inhibemus, ne poenitentibus, quibus cruces pro crimine haeresis imponuntur, irrisio ulla fiat, nec a locis propriis seu communibus commerciis excludantur, ne retardetur conversio peccatorum, & ne conversi propter scandalum abjecta poenitentia relabantur. Et si moniti desistere noluerint, per censuram ecclesiasticam compellantur.’ Cf. Bernard Gui, Practica, pp. 101-2.