[922] Conrad. Urspergens. ann. 1212.—“Hoc quoque probrosum in eis videbatur, quod viri et mulieres simul ambulabant in via, et plerumque simul manebant in una domo, ut de eis diceretur, quod quandoque simul in lectulis accubabant.” The follies of the early Christians were doubtless imitated by the new sectaries. As early as 1197 we find them denounced as heretics, under the various names of Waldenses, Poor Men of Lyons, and Sabatati, and condemned to the stake by the council of Girona, in Aragon.—Aguirre V. 103.
[923] La Nobla Leyczon, 408-13.—There has been considerable discussion as to the date of this work. It appears to me to bear the mark of more than one period, or, at least, of successive recensions. Internal evidence shows the beginning to have been written about the year 1100, while the later portion, commencing about l. 345, seems to have been composed subsequently to the persecutions of the early part of the 13th century.
[924] Bernardi Fontis Calidi Lib. contra Waldenses.—Alani de Insulis contra Hæret. Lib. II.
[925] La Nobla Leyczon, 242-3.
[926] Ibid., 88.
[927] Camerarii Hist. de Fratrum Orthodox. Ecclesiis pp. 104-7, 116-7.
[928] Pluquet, Dictionnaire des Hérésies, art. Vaudois.
[929] The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of another. The views of St. Francis, when promulgated in the fifth century by the Timotheists, were stigmatized as heretical.—V. Harduin. Concil. I. 525.
[930] Concil. Mogunt. ann. 1261 can. xlviii. (Hartzheim III. 612, 615).
The decline of the order from the asceticism of its founder afforded a fair mark for satire—