Henry Charles Lea 
History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages [PDF ebook] 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. IN a former chapter we considered the Mendicants as an active agency in the suppression of heresy. One Of the Orders, how ever, by no means restricted itself to this function, and we have now to examine the career of the Franciscans as the subjects of the Spirit of persecuting uniformity which they did so much to render dominant.