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tionis continue importunitate inquietantur, ut ne ipfa,
pro obfervatione divinee pacis, profefia facramenta culio-
diantur. Abbas Ufpergenlis, apud Datt. de pace impe¬
rii pubiica, p. 13. No. 35. The violent fpirit of the
nobility could not be reftrained by any engagements.
The complaints of this were frequent ; and bilhops, in
order to compel them to renew their vows and promifes
of ceafing from their private wars, were obliged to en¬
join their clergy to fufpend the performance of divine
fervice and the exercife of any religious funflion within
the parifhes of fuch as were refraflory and obftinate.
Hift. de Langued. par D D. de Vic & Vaifette, tom. ii.
Preuves, p. 1 18. — t. The people, eager to obtain relief
from their fufferings, called in a fecond time revelation to
their aid. Towards the end of the twelfth century, a
carpenter in Guienne gave out, that Jefus Chrift, to¬
gether with the bleffed Virgin, had appeared to him,
and having commanded him to exhort mankind to peace,
had given him, as a proof of his miflion, an image of
the Virgin holding her fon in her arms, with this in-
fcription. Lamb of God •who takejl aauay the fmsof tbs "world,
give us peace. This low fanatic addrefled himfelf to an
ignorant age, prone to credit what was marvellous.
He was received as an infpired meflenger of God. Many
prelates and barons alfembled at Puy, and took an oath,
not only to make peace with all their enemies, but to
attack fuch as refufed to lay down their arms, and to
be reconciled to their enemies. They formed an afloci-
ation for this purpofe, and affumed tbe honourable name
of tbe Brotherhood of God. Robertus de Monte Michaele,
ap. M. de Lauriere Pref. tom. i. Ordon. p. aq. But
the influence of this fuperftitious terror or devotion was
not of long continuance. — 6. The civil magiftrate was
obliged to exert his authority in order to check a cuftom
which threatened the diflblution of government. Philip
Auguflus, as feme imagine, or St. Louis, as is more
probable, publifhed an ordonance,_ A. D. IZ4-5, prohi¬
biting any perfon to commence hoftilities againft the
friends and vaflals of his adverfary, until forty days after
the commiffion of the crime or offence which gave rife