Note 341 — Chapter V · POLITICAL HERESY UTILIZED BY THE STATE. (continued 2)

Bull. Vox in excelso (Van Os, pp. 72-4).—Du Puy, pp. 177-8.—Ptol. Lucens. Hist. Eccles. Lib. xxiv. (Murutori S. R. I. XI. 1236).—Raynouard, p. 187.—Cf. Raynald. ann. 1311, No. 55.

If Schottmüller’s assumption be correct as to the “Deminutio laboris examinantium processus contra ordinem Templi in Anglia,” printed by him from a Vatican MS. (op cit. II. 78 sqq.)—that it was prepared to be laid before the commission of the Council of Vienne, it shows the unscrupulous manner in which the evidence was garbled for the purpose of misleading those who were to sit in judgment. All the favorable testimony is suppressed and the wildest gossip of women and monks is seriously presented as though it were incontrovertible.