Note 061
From Chapter 58 of the Decline & Fall

In Pelagonia castrum haereticûm ..... spoliatum cum suis habi tatoribus igne combussere.Nec id eis injuria contigit: quia illorum detestabilis sermo et cancer serpebat, jamque circumjacentes regiones suo pravo dogmate foedaverat (Robert. Mon. p. 36, 37).

After cooly relating the fact, the Archbishop Baldric adds, as a praise,

Omnes siquidem illi viatores, Judeos, haereticos, Saracenos aequaliter habent exosos; quos omnes appellant inimicos Dei (p. 92).
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