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absolutely forbidden to the lay members.”—

Acts of Inquisition, Philip van Limborch,

History of the Inquisition, chapter 8.

The Council of Tarragona, 1234, ruled that:

“No one may possess the books of the Old and

New Testaments in the Romance language,

and if anyone possesses them he must turn

them over to the local bishop within eight

days after promulgation of this decree, so

that they may be burned lest, be he a cleric or

a layman, he be suspected until he is cleared

of all suspicion.”—D. Lortsch, Histoire de la

Bible en France, 1910, p. 14.

At the Council of Constance, in 1415, Wycliffe

was posthumously condemned by Arundel,

the archbishop of Canterbury, as “that

pestilent wretch of damnable heresy who

invented a new translation of the Scriptures

in his mother tongue.”