them as excommunicated, and condemned them, together with their prompter, the devil, and gave orders to all the faithful in Christ, thenceforth cautiously to avoid the before-named Raymond and Bernard, and their accomplices, as persons excommunicated and handed over to Satan; and that if at any time in future they should preach to them anything else than what they had confessed in their hearing, they should reject their preaching as false, and contrary to the Catholic and Apostolic faith, and drive them as heretics and forerunners of Anti-Christ to a distance from their territories. Moreover, the Count of Toulouse, and the other more influential men of the province, in presence of all the people gave assurance on oath, that from that time forward they would neither, for entreaty nor for money, support the heretics. THE ELECTION OF AN ABBOT (1182). +Source.+--_Jocelin de Brakelond_, Chapter 2. King's Classics. Chatto & Windus. At last the prior and the twelve that were with him, after many fatigues and delays, stood before the King at Waltham, the manor of the Bishop of Winchester, upon the second Sunday in Lent. The King graciously received them; and, saying that he wished to act in accordance with the will of God and the honour of our Church, commanded the brethren by prolocutors--namely, Richard, the Bishop of Winchester, and Geoffrey, the chancellor, afterwards Archbishop of York--that they should nominate three members of our convent. The prior and brethren retiring as if to confer thereupon,--drew forth the sealed writing and opened it, and found the names written in this order--Samson, sub-sacrista; Roger, celerarius; Hugh, tercius prior. Hereupon those brethren who were of higher standing blushed with shame; they also marvelled that this same Hugh should be at once elector and elected. But, inasmuch as they could not alter what was done, by mutual arrangement they changed the order of the names; first naming Hugh, because he was third prior; secondly, Roger the cellarer; thirdly, Samson, thus literally making the last first, and the first last. The King, first enquiring whether they were born in his realm, and in whose lordship, said he knew them not, directing that with those three, some other three of the convent should be nominated. This being assented to, William the Sacrist said, "Our prior ought to be nominated because he is our head," which was directly allowed. The prior said, "William the Sacrist is a good man"; the like was said of Dennis, and that was settled. These being nominated before the King without any delay, the King marvelled, saying, "These men have been speedy in their work; God is with them."