An Accursed Race

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At last, they began to petition that they might receive some protectionfrom the laws; and, towards the end of the seventeenth century, thejudicial power took their side. But they gained little by this. Lawcould not prevail against custom: and, in the ten or twenty years justpreceding the first French revolution, the prejudice in France againstthe Cagots amounted to fierce and positive abhorrence.
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the Cagots of Navarrecomplained to the Pope, that they w
...ere excluded from the fellowship ofmen, and accursed by the Church, because their ancestors had given helpto a certain Count Raymond of Toulouse in his revolt against the HolySee. They entreated his holiness not to visit upon them the sins oftheir fathers. The Pope issued a bull on the thirteenth of May, fifteenhundred and fifteen--ordering them to be well-treated and to be admittedto the same privileges as other men. He charged Don Juan de Santa Mariaof Pampeluna to see to the execution of this bull.

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