Severe Inquisition of Believers in the Country Around Toulouse, in the Year 1251

At this time there was still no letting up of the constraint of conscience laid upon the faith of the orthodox Christians, who had fled from Babylon and, for the welfare of their souls, could no longer trust themselves in Romish Egypt. This appeared from the new inquisition, which, by order of the pope, through appointed inquisitors, allowed the minds of the true believers no rest, until they left the Roman territories, or made an oral disavowal, or, remaining steadfast, exchanged their life for a violent death.

Regarding the most wicked and unjust inquisition, I have found the following account:

"In the year 1251, the pope appointed, or sent, inquisitors to Toulouse, from the orders of the Dominicans and Franciscans, who exercised an inhuman tyranny over the Christians there. The same thing was done at Worms, by Conrad Dorfc and his disciple John, also Dominicans and inquisitors; who, condemning many innocent men there to the fire, were therefore themselves at last, as by the hand of God, brought to a very lamentable, though just, death." [n450-2] Bal. Cent. 4, in the Appendix ad Richard. Wich., page 301, compared with A. Mell., folio 470, column 1.