34 INTRODUCTION. 
tion with the pope, relating to his claim to the title 
of king of Jerusalem. As a great master in theology 
he held a public disputation at Bourdeaux, with 
Martin de Athera, a Dominican friar, in the presence, 
of Clement the fifth. His opinions in divinity were 
published in France and Spain, and accorded with 
those of Peter de Apono: but having treated the 
monks and the mass with too great freedom, the 
clergy become his enemies. His tenets were col- 
demned as. heretical, by the faculty of theology at 
Paris in 1309, and by the inquisition at Arragon itt 
1317, and many of his works are inserted in. the 
Index Expurgatorius. The propositions which were 
deviate from the truth, and had left only the skin of 
religion, and the faith of devils—that the monks 
- corrupt the Christian doctrines, are without Christial 
charity, and will all be damned—that masses for the 
dead are ineffectual, and that works of mercy ae 
more acceptable to God than the sacrifice of the 
altar, When his master Peter de Apono was pt 
secuted by the inquisition, he fled for protection (0 
Frederic of Arragon, king of Sicily, the brother of 
* Eymeric. Directorium Inquisitorium, Venice, 1607, P 
265, etc. In p, 316, is a catalogue of his forbidden works. 
