About One Hundred Persons Called Albigenses, or Heretics

About the close of the year 1211, it is recorded, the pope's legate, who had gone out to root out completely all those who professed the confession of the Albigenses mentioned above, was informed that over eighty, but according to others about a hundred, of that sect or heresy, as it was called, were hidden on, or in, a tower at Cassas. They had been sent there by the people of Rogueville (who, it seems, were not willing that any of these defenseless people should remain among them), so that they might save their lives until this bloodthirsty man had passed by. Having learned this, the legate very easily surprised, captured and demolished this tower, and had all those who were in it, like sheep for the slaughter in the fold, and who would not abandon their faith, burned alive as heretics. Chass., book 3, chapter 15. Also, A. Mell., 2nd book, folio 457, column 1. [n430-1]