Note 249 — Chapter I · - ATTITUDE OF THE CHURCH TOWARDS HERESY PRIOR TO THE INSTITUTION OF THE INQUISITION

See Lea, vol. i, p. 215; Maillet, pp. 17 et seq.; Vacandard, pp. 27-30. ‘Nor were they [the bishops] content with merely accepting it [the aid of the secular arm]. They declared that the State had not only the right to help the Church in suppressing heresy, but that she was in duty bound to do so.’ See also De Cauzons, vol. i, p. 189 n., and P. Frédéricq, Les récents historiens catholiques de l’inquisition en France, in Revue historique (vol. cix, Jan.-April, 1912), p. 314.