CHAPTER IV.
_...Simonis leprosam Execrate haeresim, Sacerdotum simul atque Scelus adulterii, Laicorum dominatus Cedat ab ecclesiis._ ST.

PETER DAMIAN.
The King of Arles and the missionary rode along without an escort, and felt none of the fears that the traveller of the times is often made to entertain for his personal safety.

They did not apprehend any violence, and their only preparation for the expedition had been a recommendation to God through Our Lady and the Saints.

It is as purely imaginative in historians and novelists--and it is difficult indeed to distinguish the one from the other--to surround every castle with a wall of banditti, as to station in Catholic countries of the present day, a robber or an assassin behind every tree.

In the Middle Ages, the stranger could wander from castle to castle with as little danger as the nature of the country permitted; even in times of war, the blind, the young, the sick, and the clergy were privileged from outrage, though found on hostile territory.