ABSTRACT
The inquisitorial records for the Toulousain are more dumb than the register of Pamiers because their inquisitors were really busy with Cathars, and had little time for divagation and local color. By 1325, the Toulousain was populated with parish associations, mendicant clergy, public notaries, 'jurisperiti' and rural judges, 'medici' and physici,' and titled nobles of all varieties. Toulousan citizens often retired to monasteries such as Grandselve or Lespinasse to live their latter years on pension as corrodians and receive final care and burial. Just as in Toulouse, however, rural folk tried to take care of their needs by building and maintaining hospitals and leperhouses. Toulousans claimed a superior authority for their notaries and courts, but this was forever abolished by the prince's seneschals, baillages and the villagers' consulates. The testament of Raymond Arguanhati of 1271 proves that the contacts of a well-to-do citizen of Isle-Jourdain had a geographical reach that equaled those of similar persons in Toulouse.
