Note 105 — Chapter I · LANGUEDOC. (continued 3)

Archives de l’Inq. de Carcassonne (Doat, XXXVII. 255). The Inquisition seems to have by some means acquired jurisdiction over the Jews of Languedoc. In 1279 there is a charter granted by Bernard, Abbot of S. Antonin of Pamiers, to the Jews of Pamiers, approving of certain statutes agreed upon among themselves concerning their internal affairs, thus showing them subjected to the abbatial jurisdiction. Yet in 1297 we have a letter from the inquisitor, Frère Arnaud Jean, ordering the Jews of Pamiers to live according to the customs of the Jews of Narbonne, and promising not to introduce “aliquas graves et insolitas novitates.” During the interval they had thus passed into the hands of the Inquisition.--Coll. Doat, XXXVII. 156, 160.