Note 178 — Chapter II · NAPLES.
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Bibliothèque Nationale de France, fonds latin, 8994, fol. 252.
Possibly this may be partially explained by the fact that heresy was a case reserved to the Holy See, the absolution for which in the forum internum required a special licence (cap. 3, Extrav. Commun., Lib. V, Tit. ix). But in the forum externum the episcopal jurisdiction over heresy was in no way curtailed by the existence of the Inquisition (Benedicti PP. XIV de Synodo diœcesana, Lib. IX, cap. iv, n. 3). This was fully admitted by the Roman Inquisition (Decret. S. Congr. S. Officii, pp. 174-5, 177, 266-8, 272-3 ap. R. Archivio di Stato in Roma, Fondo Camerale, Congr. del S. Offizio, Vol. 3).