[425] Eymeric, Directorium, pp. 702-4; Molinier, op. cit., pp. 23, 390.
[426] Practica, pp. 165, 169.
[427] Douais, Documents, vol. ii, pp. 213, 237.
[428] ‘Filios haereticorum, etiam natos ante crimen commissum, sub poenis, & prohibitionibus canonicis comprehendi.’ J. à Royas in Zilettus, vol. xi, pt. ii, p. 231.
[429] See Lea, vol. i, pp. 471-81.
[430] While in France the Inquisition took no official record of confiscation—it was automatically carried out by the State—in Italy the tribunal gave a formal declaratory sentence of confiscation. Zanchino, Tractatus de Haereticis, chs. xxiii, xxv, xxvi.
[431] See Lea, vol. i, pp. 520-1.
[432] Mansi, vol. xxiii, pp. 574-5.
[433] See Lea, vol. iii, p. 525. On whole question of confiscation, see also Tanon, op. cit., pp. 523-38.
[434] Lea, vol. i, p. 529. Lea was the first historian to go into the financial aspect of the Inquisition at all thoroughly. He devotes a whole chapter, book i, ch. xiii, to the subject of confiscation. ‘It was this,’ in his view, ‘which supplied the fuel which kept up the fires of zeal, and when it was lacking, the business of defending the faith languished lamentably.’