Ex Bullario Laertii Cherubini, Romae 1638. TOM. III. p. 183.
Constitutio Pauli V. 63.
EXcommunicatio & Anathematizatio quorumcun (que) Haereticorum, eorum (que) fautorum ac Schismaticorum, vel Ecclesiasticam Libertatem laedentium, aut quoquo modo dispositis in hac Bulla, de more in die Caena Domini publicare solita, contravenientium.
Quoad omnia quasi Capitula hujus Bullae (ultra Extravagan. 3. Pauli II. & Extravagan. 5. Sixti IV. in tit. de Paenitentia & Remissionibus) habes supra Constitut. 1. Ʋrbani V. fol. 215. Constitut. 25. Julii II. f. 482. Constitut. 10. Pauli III. f. 522. necnon Constitut. 81. Gregorii XIII. f. 348. l. 2. Aliorum autem Bullas ejusmodi Caenae Domini nuncupatas volens praetermisi, his duntaxat contentus, [Page 2] ex quibus pro temporum conditione Romanos Pontifices aliquid immutasse cognoscatur. Non tamen posthabui proxime indicandas, uti apprime necessarias, & super hujus Bullae capitibus specialiter editas.
Extat ergo in hoc Opere specialis edita sanctio Nicolai III. circa § primum hujus Bullae in ejus Const. 2. sup. fol. 143. & circa § 2. extat Const. 5. Pii II. f. 290. l. 1. Circa § 4. extat Const. 7. Pii V. f. 137. l. 2. Circa § 7. extat Const. 3. Nicolai V. f. 283. l. 1. Circa § 10. extat Canon Callisti I. in c. 23. caus. 24. q. 3. Circa § 11. respectu Cardinalium extat Const. 16. Leonis X. f. 420. l. 1. & alia 93. Pii V. f. 222. l. 2. Circa § 12 extat Const. 11. Alexandri VI. f. 352. Circa § 14. extat Const. 2. Martini V. f. 239 & alia 17. Innocentii VIII. f. 343. ac altera 30. Leonis X. f. 440. necnon alia 39. Clementis VII. f. 505. l. 1. & altera 19. Gregorii XIII. f. 290. [Page 3] l. 2. Circa § 15. multi sunt Canones in Corpore Juris, & extat Const. 10. Martini V. f. 247. Circa § 19. extat Const. 3. Ʋrbani VI. f. 222. Et Circa § 20. extat Const. [...] Joannis XXII. f. 174. & alia 3. Clementis VI. f. 212. alia 13. Leonis X. f. 314. & altera 11. Pauli IV. f. 595.
Alia hujusmodi Excommunicatio in die Coenae Domini Promulgari solita est in S. D. N. Ʋrbani VIII. Const. 62. Pastoralis infr. Tom. 4.
Paulus Episcopus, Servus Servorum Dei, ad perpetuam rei memoriam.
PAstoralis Romani Pontificis vigilantia & sollicitudo, cum in omni Reipublicae Christianae pace & tranquillitate procuranda pro fui muneris officio assidue versatur, tum potissimum in Catholicae fidei sine qua impossibile [Page 4] est placere Deo, unitate at (que) integritate retinenda, maxime elucet: Nimirum ut fideles Christi non sint parvuli fluctuantes, ne (que) circumferantur omni vento doctrinae in nequitia hominum ad circumventionem erroris, sed omnes occurrant in unitate fidei & agnitionis Filii Dei in virum perfectum, ne (que) se in hujus vitae societate & communione laedant, aut inter se alter alteri offensionem praebeat, sed potius in vinculo caritatis conjuncti, tanquam unius corporis membra sub Christo capite, ejus (que) in terris Vicario Romano Pontifice Beatissimi Petri Successore, a quo totius Ecclesiae unitas dimanat, augeantur in aedificatione, at (que) ita divina gratia adjutrice sic praesentis vitae quiete gaudeant, ut sutura quoque beatitudine perfruantur. Ob quas sane causas Romani Pontifices praedecessores nostri hodierna die, quae anniversaria DominicaeCoenae commemoratione solennis est, spiritualem Ecclesiasticae disciplinae gladium, & salutaria justitiae arma per ministerium summi Apostolatus [Page 5] ad Dei gloriam & animarum salutem solenniter exercere consueverunt. Nos igitur, quibus nihil optabilius est, quam fidei inviolatam integritatem, publicam Pacem & Justitiam, deo autore, tueri, vetustum & solennem hunc morem sequentes;
§. 1. Excommunicamus & anathematizamus ex parte Dei Omnipotentis, Patris & Filii & Spiritus Sancti, auctoritate quoque Beatorum Apostolorum Petri & Pauli, ac nostra, quoscunque Hussitas, Vuichlephistas, Luteranos, Zuinglianos, Calvinistas, Ugonottos, Anabaptistas, Trinitarios, & a Christiana fide Apostatas, ac omnes & singulos alios Haereticos, quocunque nomine censeantur, & cujuscunque sectae existant; ac eis credentes, eorumque receptatores, fautores, & generaliter quoslibet illorum defensores; ac eorundem libros haeresin continentes, vel de Religione tractantes sine auctoritate nostra [Page 6] & Sedis Apostolicae scienter legentes aut retinentes, imprimentes, seu quomodolilet defendentes, ex quavis causa publice vel occulte, quovis ingenio vel colore; necnon Schismaticos & eos qui se a nostra & Romani Pontificis pro tempore existentis obedientia pertinaciter subtrahunt vel recedunt.
§ 2. Item, Excommunicamus & anathematizamus omnes & singulos, cujuscunque status, gradus, seu conditionis fuerint, Universitates Collegia & Capitula, quocunque nomine nuncupentur, interdicimus, ab ordinationibus seu mandatis nostris ac Romanorum Pontificum pro tempore existentium ad Universale futurum Concilium appellantes; necnon eos quorum auxilio vel favore appellatum fuerit.
§ 3. Item, Excommunicamus & anathematizamus omnes Piratas, Cursarios ac Latrunculos Maritimos, discurrentes Mare nostrum, praecipue a Monte Argentario usque ad Terraciuam, ac omnes eorum fautores, receptatores & defensores.
§. 4. Item, Excommunicamus & anathematizamus omnes & singulos, qui Christianorum quorumcun (que) navibus tempestate, seu in transversum (ut dici solet) jactatis, vel quoquo modo naufragium passis, seu in ipsis navibus, sive ex eisdem ejecta in Mare, vel in littore inventa, cujuscunque generis bona, tam in nostris, Tyrrheni & Adriatici, quam in caeteris cujusque Maris regionibus & littoribus, surripuerint; ita ut nec ob quodcunque Privilegium, Consuetudinem, aut longissimi etiam immemorabilis temporis possessionem, seu alium quemcunque praetextum excusari possint.
§ 5. Item, Excommunicamus & anathematizamus omnes qui in terris suis nova Pedagia seu Gabellas, praeterquam in casibus sibi a jure, seu ex speciali sedis Apostolicae licentia permissis, imponunt vel augent, seu imponi vel augeri prohibita exigunt.
§ 6. Item, Excommunicamus & anathematizamus omnes falsarios literarum Apostolicarum, etiam in forma [Page 8] Brevis, ac▪ Supplicationum, Gratiam vel Justitiam concernentium, per Romanum Pontisicem vel S. R. E. Vicecancellarios seu gerentes vices eorum, aut de mandato ejusdem Pontificis signatarum, necnon falso publicantes literas Apostolicas, etiam in forma Brevis, & etiam falso signantes Supplicationes hujusmodi sub nomine Romani Pontificis seu Vicecancellarii, aut gerentium vices praedictorum.
§ 7. Item, Excommunicamus & anathematizamus omnes illos, qui ad Saracenos, Turcas, & alios Christiani nominis hostes, & inimicos, vel Haereticos per nostras vel hujus Sanctae Sedis sententias expresse vel nominatim declaratos deferunt seu transmittunt Equos, Arma, Ferrum, filum Ferri, Stannum, Chalybem, omniaque Metallorum genera atque Bellica Instrumenta, Lignamina, Canapem, Funes, tam ex ipso Canape quam alia quacunque materia, & ipsam materiam, aliaque hujusmodi, quibus Christianos & Catholicos impugnant; necnon illos qui [Page 9] per se vel per alios de rebus statum Christianae Reipublicae concernentibus, in Christianorum perniciem & damnum ipsos Turcas & Christianae Religionis inimicos, necnon Haereticos, in damnum Catholicae Religionis, certiores faciunt, illisque ad id auxilium consilium vel favorem quomodolibet praestant. Non obstantibus quibuscun (que) Privilegiis, quibusvis Personis, Principibus, Rebus-publicis, per Nos & Sedem praedictam hactenus concessis, de hujusmodi prohibitione expressam mentionem non facientibus.
§ 8. Item, Excommunicamus & anathematizamus omnes impedientes seu invadentes eos, qui victualia seu alia ad usum Romanae Curiae necessaria adducunt, ac etiam eos qui ne ad Romanam Curiam adducantur vel afferantur prohibent, impediunt seu perturbant, seu haec facientes defendunt per se vel per alios, cujuscunque fuerint ordinis, praeeminentiae, conditionis & status, etiamsi Pontificali seu Regali aut alia quavis Ecclesiastica vel mundana [Page 10] praefulgeant dignitate.
§ 9. Item, Excommunicamus & anathematizamus omnes illos, qui ad sedem Apostolicam venientes, & recedentes ab eadem, sua vel aliorum opera interficiunt, mutilant, spoliant, capiunt, detinent; necnon illos omnes qui jurisdictionem ordinariam vel delegatam a nobis vel nostris Judicibus non habentes, illam sibi temere vendicantes, similia contra morantes in eadem Curia audent perpetrare.
§ 10. Item, Excommunicamus & anathematizamus omnes interficientes, mutilantes, vulnerantes, detinentes, capientes seu depraedantes Romipetas seu Perigrinos ad Urbem causa Devotionis seu Peregrinationis accedentes, & in ea morantes, vel ab ipsa recedentes, & in his dantes auxilium, consilium, vel favorem.
§ 11. Item, Excommunicamus & anathematizamus omnes interficientes, vulnerantes, mutilantes, percutientes, capientes, carcerantes, detinentes, vel hostiliter [Page 11] insequentes S. R. E. Cardinales, ac Patriarchas, Archiepiscopos, Episcopos, Sedis (que) Apostolicae Legatos vel nuncios, aut eos a suis Diaecesibus, Territoriis, Terris, seu Dominiis ejicientes, necnon ea mandantes vel rata habentes, seu praestantes in eis auxilium, consilium, vel favorem.
§ 12. Item, Excommunicamus & anathematizamus omnes illos, qui per se vel per alios, personas Ecclesiasticas quascunque, vel seculares ad Romanam Curiam super eorum causis & negotiis recurrentes, ac illa in eadem Curia prosequentes aut procurantes, negotiorumque gestores, advocatos, procuratores & agentes, seu etiam Auditores vel Judices super dictis causis vel negotiis deputatos, occasione causarum vel negotiorum hujusmodi, occidunt, seu quoquo modo percutiunt, bonis spoliant; seu qui per se vel per alios, directe vel indirecte delicta hujusmodi committere, exequi vel procurare, aut in eisdem auxilium, consilium vel favorem praestare non verentur, cujuscunque [Page 12] praeeminentiae & dignitatis fuerint.
§ 13. Item, Excommunicamus & anathematizamus omnes tam▪ Ecclesiasticos quam Seculares, cujuscunque dignitatis, qui praetexentes frivolam quandam appellationem a gravamine vel futura executione literarum Apostolicarum etiam in forma Brevis, tam gratiam quam justitiam concernentium, necnon citationum, inhibitionum, sequestrorum, monitoriorum, processuum, executorialium, & aliorum Decretorum, a Nobis & Sede praedicta seu Legatis, Nunciis Praesidentibus, Palatii nostri & Camerae Apostolicae Auditoribus, Commissariis, aliisque Judicibus & delegatis Apostolicis emanatorum, & quae pro tempore emanaverint, aut alias ad Curias Saeculares & Laicam potestatem recurrunt, & ab ea instante etiam Fisci Procuratore & Advocato, appellationes hujusmodi admitti, ac literas, citationes, inhibitiones, sequestra, monitoria, & alia praedicta, capi & retineri faciunt. Quive illa simpliciter, vel sine [Page 13] eorum beneplacito & consensu vel examine executioni demandari, aut ne Tabelliones & Notarii super hujusmodi literarum & processuum executione, instrumenta vel acta conficere, aut confectaparti cujus interest, tradere debeant, impediunt vel prohibent, ac etiam partes seu eorum agentes, consanguineos, affines, familiares, notarios, executores, & sub-executores literarum, citationum, monitoriorum, & aliorum praedictorum capiunt, percutiunt, vulnerant, carcerant, detinent, ex Civitatibus, Locis, & Regnis ejiciunt, bonis spoliant, perterrefaciunt, concutiunt & comminantur per se vel per alium seu alios, publice vel occulte; quive alias quibuscunque personis in genere vel in specie, ne pro quibusvis eorum negotiis profequendis seu gratiis vel literis impetrandis ad Romanam Curiam accedant, aut recursum habeant, seu gratias ipsas vel literas a dicta Sede impetrent seu impetratis utantur, directe vel indirecte prohibere, statuere seu mandare, [Page 14] vel eas apud se aut Notarios seu Tabelliones, vel alias quomodolibet retinere praesumunt.
§ 14. Item excommunicamus & anathematizamus omnes & singulos, qui per se vel alios, auctoritate propria ac de facto, quarumcun (que) exemptionum vel aliarum gratiarum & literarum Apostolicarum praetextu, beneficiales, & decimarum, ac alias causas spirituales ac spiritualibus annexas, ab Auditoribus & Commissariis nostris, aliis (que) Judicibus Ecclesiasticis avocant; illarumve cursum & audientiam; ac personas, capitula, Conventus, Collegia, causas ipsas prosequi volentes impediunt ac se de illarum cognitione tanquam Judices interponunt. Quive partes actrices, quae illas committi fecerunt & faciunt, ad revocandum & revocari faciendum citationes vel inhibitiones aut alias literas in eis decretas, & ad faciendum vel [Page 15] consentiendum eos contra quos tales inhibitiones emanarunt a censuris & paenis in illis contentis absolvi, per statutum vel alias compellunt; vel executionem literarum Apostolicarum seu executorialium, processuum▪ ac decretorum praedictorum quomodolibet impediunt, vel suum ad id favorem, consilium aut assensum praestant, etiam praetextu violentiae prohibendae, vel aliarum praetensionum, seu etiam, donec ipsi ad nos informandos, ut dicunt, supplicaverint aut supplicari fecerint; nisi supplicationes hujusmodi coram Nobis & sede Apostolica legitime prosequantur, etiamsi talia committentes fuerint Praesidentes Cancellariarum, Consiliorum, Parlamentorum, Cancellarii, Vice-cancellarii, Consiliarii, ordinarii vel extraordinarii▪ quorumcun (que) Principum Saecularium; etiamsi Imperiali, Regali, Ducali, vel alia quacun (que) praefulgeant dignitate; aut Archiepiscopi, Episcopi, Abbates, Commendatarii seu Vicarii fuerint.
§ 15. Quive ex eorum praetenso officio, vel ad instantiam partis, aut aliorum quorumcun (que) personas Ecclesiasticas, Capitula, Conventus, Collegia Ecclesiarum quarumcun (que) coram se ad suum Tribunal, Audientiam, Cancellariam, Consilium, vel Parlamentum, praeter juris Canonici dispositionem, trahunt, vel trahi faciunt vel procurant, directe vel indirecte, quovis quaesito colore; necnon qui statuta, ordinationes, constitutiones, pragmaticas, seu quaevis alia decreta in genere vel in specie, ex quavis causa & quovis quaesito colore, ac etiam praetextu cujusvis consuetudinis & privilegii, vel alias quomodolibet fecerint, ordinaverint & publicaverint, vel factis & ordinatis usi fuerint, unde libertas Ecclesiastica tollitur, seu in aliquo laeditur vel deprimitur, aut alio quovis modo restringitur, seu nostris & dictae sedis, ac quarumcun (que) ecclesiarum juribus quomodolibet directe vel indirecte, tacite vel expresse praejudicatur.
§ 16. Necnon qui Archiepiscopos, Episcopos, alios (que) superiores & inferiores Praelatos, & omnes alios quoscun (que) Judices Ecclesiasticos ordinarios quomodolibet hac de causa directe vel indirecte, carcerando vel molestando eorum agentes, procuratores, familiares necnon consanguineos & affines, aut alias impediunt, quo minus jurisdictione sua Ecclesiastica contra quoscun (que) utantur, secundum quod Canones & sacrae constitutiones Ecclesiasticae, & decreta Conciliorum Generalium, & praesertim Tridentini, statuunt; ac etiam eos qui post ipsorum ordinariorum ac etiam ab eis delegatorum quorumcun (que) sententias & decreta, aut alias fori ecclesiastici judicium eludentes, ad Cancellarias & alias Curias seculares recurrunt, & ab illis prohibitiones & mandata etiam paenalia, ordinariis aut delegatis praedictis decerni, & contra illos exequi procurant; eos quo (que) qui haec decernunt & exequntur, seu dant auxilium, consilium, patrocinium & favorem in eisdem.
§ 17. Quive jurisdictiones seu fructus, reditus & proventus ad nos & sedem Apostolicam, & quascun (que) Ecclesiasticas personas ratione Ecclesiarum, Monasteriorum & aliorum beneficiorum Ecclesiasticorum pertinentes usurpant, vel etiam quavis ocsione vel causa sine Romani Pontificis vel aliorum ad id legitimam facultatem habentium expressa licentia sequestrant.
§ 18. Quive collectas, decimas, talleas, praestantias & alia onera Clericis, Praelatis & aliis personis Ecclesiasticis, ac eorum & Ecclesiarum, Monasteriorum & aliorum beneficiorum Ecclesiasticorum bonis, illorumve fructibus, reditibus & proventibus hujusmodi, absque simili Romani Pontificis speciali & expressa licentia imponunt, & diversis etiam exquisitis modis exigunt, aut sic imposita a sponte dantibus & cóncedentibus recipiunt. Necnon qui per se vel alios directe vel indirecte praedicta facere, exequi vel procurare, aut in eisdem auxilium, consilium vel favorem [Page 19] praestare non verentur, cujuscun (que) sint praeeminentiae, dignitatis, ordinis, conditionis aut status, etiamsi Imperiali aut Regali fulgeant dignitate; seu Principes, Duces, Comites, Barones, & alii Potentatus; quicun (que) etiam Regnis, Provinciis, Civitatibus & Terris quoquomodo Praesidentes, consiliarii & Senatores, aut quavis etiam Pontificali dignitate insigniti. Innovantes decreta super his per Sacros Canones, tam in Lateranensi novissime celebrato, quam aliis Conciliis generalibus edita, etiam cum censuris & paenis in eis contentis.
§ 19. Item, Excommunicamus & anathematizamus omnes & quoscunque Magistratus & Judices, Notarios, Scribas, Executores, Subexecutores quomodolibet se interponentes in causis capitalibus seu criminalibus contra Personas Ecclesiasticas, illas processando, banniendo, seu sententias contra illas proferendo vel exequendo sine speciali, specifica & expressa hujus Sanctae Sedis Apostolicae licentia; quique ejusmodi licentiam [Page 20] ad Personas & casus non expressos extendunt, vel alias illa perperam abutuntur, etiamsi talia committentes fuerint Consiliarii, Senatores, Praesidentes, Cancellarii, Vice-cancellarii, aut quovis alio nomine nuncupati.
§ 20. Item, Excommunicamus & anathematizamus omnes illos, qui per se seu alios, directe vel indirecte, sub quocun (que) titulo seu colore invadere, destruere, occupare & detinere praesumpserint, in totum vel in partem Almam Urbem, Regnum Siciliae, Insulas Sardiniae, & Corsicae, Terras circa Pharum, Patrimonium B. Petri in Tuscia, Ducatum Spoletanum, Comitatum Venaysinum, Sabinensem, Marchiae, Anconitanae, Massae, Trebariae, Romandiolae, Campaniae, & Maritimas Provincias, illarumque Terras & loca, ac Terras specialis commissionis Arnulforum, Civitatesque nostras Bononiam, Caesenam, Ariminum, Beneventum, Perusium, Avenionem, Civitatem Castelli, Tudertum, Ferrariam, Comaclum, & alias Civitates, Terras & loca, vel jura ad ipsam [Page 21] Romanam Ecclesiam pertinentia, dictae (que) Romanae Ecclesiae mediate vel immediate subjecta, necnon supremam jurisdictionem in illis, Nobis & eidem Romanae Ecclesiae competentem, de facto usurpare, perturbare, retinere & vexare variis modis praesumunt, necnon adhaerentes, fautores, & defensores eorum, seu illis auxilium, consilium vel favorem quomodolibet praestantes.
§ 21. Volentes praesentes nostros Processus, ac omnia & quaecunque his literis contenta, quousque alii hujusmodi processus a Nobis aut Romano Pontifice pro tempore existente fiant aut publicentur, durare suosque effectus omnino sortiri.
§ 22. Caeterum a praedictis sententiis nullus per alium quam per Romanum Pontificem, nisi in mortis articulo constitutus, nec etiam tunc, nisi de stando Ecclesiae mandatis & satisfaciendo cautione praestita, absolvi possit, etiam praetextu quarumvis facultatum & indultorum quibuscunque personis Ecclesiasticis, secularibus, & [Page 22] quorumvis Ordinum, etiam Mendicantium, & Militarium, regularibus, etiam Episcopali vel alia majori dignitate praeditis, ipsisque Ordinibus & eorum Monasteriis, Conventibus & Domibus ac Capitulis, Collegiis, Confraternitatibus, Congregationibus, Hospitalibus, & locis piis, necnon Laicis, etiamsi Imperiali, Regali, & alia mundana excellentia fulgentibus, per Nos & dictam Sedem ac cujusvis Concilii decreta, verbo, literis, aut alia quacunque Scriptura in genere & in specie concessorum & innovatorum, ac concedendorum & innovandorum.
§ 23. Quod si forte aliqui contra tenorem praesentium talibus excommunicatione & anathemate laqueatis, vel eorum alicui absolutionis beneficium impendere de facto praesumpserint, eos excommunicationis sententia innodamus, gravius contra eos spiritualiter & temporaliter, prout expedire noverimus, processuri.
§ 24. Declarantes ac protestantes quamcun (que) absolutionem, etiamsi solenniter per Nos faciendam, praedictos excommunicatos sub praesentibus comprehensos, nisi prius a praemissis cum vero proposito similia ulterius non committendi, destiterint, ac quoad eos, qui contra ecclesiasticam libertatem, ut praemittitur, statuta fecerint, nisi prius statuta, ordinationes, constitutiones, pragmaticas, & decreta hujusmodi publice revocaverint, & ex Archivis seu Capitularibus, locis aut libris, in quibus annotata reperiuntur, deleri & cassari, ac Nos de revocatione hujusmodi certiores fecerint, eos non comprehendere, nec eis aliter suffragari; quinetiam per hujusmodi absolutionem, aut quoscunque alios actus contrarios tacitos vel expressos, ac etiam per patientiam & tolerantiam nostram vel Successorum nostrorum, quantocun (que) tempore continuatam, praemissis omnibus & singulis, ac quibuscun (que) juribus Sedis Apostolicae ac Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae undecun (que) & quandocun (que) quaesitis, vel [Page 24] quaerendis nullatenus praejudicari posse aut debere.
§ 25. Non obstantibus privilegiis, indulgentiis, indultis, & literis Apostolicis generalibus vel specialibus supradictis, vel eorum alicui, seu aliquibus aliis cujuscunque ordinis, status vel conditionis, dignitatis & praeeminentiae fuerint, etiamsi, ut praemittitur, Pontificali, Imperiali, Regali, seu quavis Ecclesiastica & mundana praefulgeant dignitate, vel eorum Regnis, Provinciis, civitatibus seu locis a praedicta Sede ex quavis causa etiam per viam contractus aut remunerationis, & sub quavis alia forma & tenore, ac cum quibusvis clausulis, etiam derogatoriarum derogatoriis concessis, etiam continentibus quod excommunicari, anathematizari vel interdici non possint, per literas Apostolicas non facientes plenam & expressam ac de verbo ad verbum de indulto hujusmodi, ac de ordinibus, locis, nominibus propriis, cognominibus & dignitatibus eorum mentionem, necnon consuetudinibus, etiam immemorabilibus, [Page 25] ac praescriptionibus quantumcun (que) longissimis, & aliis quibuslibet observantiis, scriptis vel non scriptis, per quae contra hos nostros Processus ac sententias, quo minus includantur in eis, se juvare valeant ac tueri. Quae omnia quoad hoc, eorum omnium tenores, ac si ad verbum, nihil penitus omisso, insererentur, praesentibus pro expressis habentes penitus tollimus, & omnino revocamus: caeterisque contrariis quibuscunque.
§ 26. Ut vero praesentes nostri processus ad publicam omnium notitiam facilius deducantur, Chartas seu Membranas Processus ipsos continentes, valvis Ecclesiae S. Joannis Lateranensis, & Basilicae Principis Apostolorum de Urbe appendi faciemus; ut ii, quos Processus hujusmodi concernunt, quod ad ipsos non pervenerint, aut quod ipsos ignoraverint, nullam possint excusationem praetendere aut ignorantiam allegare; cum non sit verisimile, [Page 26] id remanere incognitum, quod tam patenter omnibus publicatur.
§ 27. Insuper ut Processus ipsi & praesentes literae, ac omnia & singula in eis contenta, eo fiant notiora, quo in plerisque Civitatibus & locis fuerint publicata; universis & singulis Patriarchis, Primatibus, Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, & locorum Ordinariis, & Praelatis ubilibet constitutis, per haec scripta committimus, & in virtute sanctae obedientiae districte praecipiendo mandamus; ut per se vel per alium seu alios praesentes literas, postquam eas receperint, seu earum habuerint notitiam, semel in anno, aut, si expedire viderint, etiam pluries, in Ecclesiis suis, dum in eis major populi multitudo ad Divina convenerit, solenniter publicent, & ad Christi fidelium mentes reducant, nuncient, & declarent.
§ 28. Caeterum Patriarchae, Archiepiscopi, Episcopi, aliique locorum Ordinarii, & Ecclesiarum Praelati, necnon Rectores, caeterique curam animarum exercentes, [Page 27] ac Presbytei saeculares & quorumvis Ordinum regulares ad audiendas peccatorum confessiones quavis authoritate deputati, transumptum praesentium Literarum penes se habeant, eas (que) diligenter legere & percipere studeant.
§ 29. Volentes earundum praesentium transumptis, etiam impressis, Notarii publici manu subscriptis, & sigillo Judicis Ordinarii Romanae Curiae, vel alterius personae in dignitate ecclesiastica constitutae munitis, eandem prorsus fidem in judicio, & extra illud ubique locorum adhibendam fore, quae ipsis praesentibus adhiberetur, si essent exhibitae vel ostensae.
§ 30. Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam nostrae excommunicationis, anathematizationis, interdicti, innovationis, innodationis, declarationis, protestationis, sublationis, revocationis, commissionis, mandati & voluntatis infringere, vel ei ausu temerario contraire. Siquis autem hoc attentare praesumpserit, indignationem Omnipotentis [Page 28] Dei ac Beatorum Petri & Pauli Apostolorum ejus se noverit incursurum.
Datum Romae apud S. Petrum, Anno Incarnationis Dominicae Millessimo sexcentesimo decimo, sexto Idus Aprilis, Pontificatus nostri anno quinto.
Anno a Nativitate Domini Nostri Jesu Christi millesimo sexcentesimo decimo tertio, Indict. 11. die vero quarta mensis Aprilis, Pontificatus Sanctiss. in Christo Patris & D. N. D. Pauli divina providentia Papae V. anno octavo, supradictae literae affixae & publicatae fuerunt ad Valvas Basilicarum S. Joannis Lateranensis & Principis Apostolorum, & in acie Campi Florae per nos Baldassarem Vacham & Brandimartem Latinum Cursores.
The Sixty third Constitution of Paul V.
THe Excommunication and Anathematization of all Hereticks whatsoever, and their favourers, and Schismaticks, or of those who violate the Ecclesiastical Liberty, or any ways infringe the Contents of this Bull, which is wont to be published on Maunday-Thursday.
As for almost all the Chapters of this Bull, (besides the 3d Extravagant of Paul II. and the 5th Extravagant of Sixtus IV. in the Title of Penance and Remissions) you have them before ordained in the first Constitution of Urban. V. fol. 215. in the 25th Constitution of Julius II. f. 482. in the 10th Constitution of Paul III. f. 522. and in the 81st Constitution of Gregory XIII. f. 348. lib. 2. Other Bulls of this nature, [Page 2] called Bulls in Caena Domini, I have purposely omitted, being content with these; from which it may appear that the Popes have made some Variation in them, according to the Exigency of the times. Yet I would not omit those which follow, as being especially necessary, and partiticularly published upon the several Chapters of this Bull.
There is extant therefore in this Collection, a particular Edict of Nicolas III. about the 1st Section of this Bull in his 2d Constitution. Sup. fol. 143. concerning Sect. 2. there is extant, Const. 5. of Pius II. f. 290. l. 1. concerning §. 4. there is extant, Const. 7. of Pius V. f. 137. l. 2. concerning §. 7. is extant, Const. 3. of Nicolas V. f. 283. l. 1. concerning §. 10. is extant a Canon of Callistus. in c. 23. Const. 24. qu. 3. Concerning §. 11. in respect of the Cardinals is extant, Const. 16. of Leo X. f. 420. l. 1. and Const. 93. of Pius V. f. 222. l. 2. Concerning § 12. is extant Const. 11. of Alexander VI. f. 352. Concerning § 14. is extant Const. 2. of Martin V. f. 239. and Const. 17. of Innocent [Page 3] VIII. f. 343. and Const. 30. of Leo X. f. 440. and Const. 39. of Clement VII. f. 505. l. 1. and Const. 19. of Gregory XIII. f. 290. l. 2. Concerning § 15. are many Canons in the Body of the Law, and Const. 10. of Martin V. f. 247. Concerning § 19. is extant Const. 3. of Urban VI. f. 222. Concerning § 20. is extant Const. 8. of John XXII. f. 174. and Const. 3. of Clement VI. f. 212. and Const. 13. of Leo X. f. 314. and Const. 11. of Paul IV. f. 595.
Another like Excommunication usually published on Maunday Thursday, is extant in the 62d Constitution of our Holy Lord Urban VIII. inf. Tom 4.
Paul Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God, in perpetual memory of the thing now Decreed.
THE Pastoral vigilance and care of the Bishop of Rome, being by the duty of his Office continually employed in procuring by all means the peace and tranquility of Christendom, is more especially eminent in retaining and [Page 4] preserving the unity and integrity of Catholick Faith; without which it is impossible to please God: That so the faithful of Christ may not be as Children wavering, nor be carried about with every wind of Doctrine, by the cunning craft of men, whereby they lay in wait to deceive; but that all may meet in the unity of the Faith, and the knowledg of the Son of God unto a perfect man: That in the communion and society of this life they may not injure nor offend one another; but rather being joyned together with the bond of Charity, as members of one body under Christ the Head, and his Vicar upon Earth the Bishop of Rome, St. Peter's Successor, from whom the unity of the whole Church doth flow, may be increased in edification, and by the assistance of the Divine Grace may so enjoy the tranquility of this present life, that they may also attain eternal happiness. For which Reasons the Bishops of Rome, our Predecessors, upon this day, which is dedicated to the Anniversary commemoration of our Lord's Supper, have been wont [Page 5] solemnly to exercise the Spiritual Sword of Ecclesiastical Discipline and wholsom Weapons of Justice by the Ministry of the Supreme Apostolate to the glory of God, and salvation of Souls. We therefore, desiring nothing more than by the guidance of God to preserve inviolable the integrity of Faith, publick Peace and Justice; following this ancient and solemn Custom;
§. 1. We excommunicate and anathematize in the name of God Almighty, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and by the authority of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own, all Hussites, Wiclephists, Lutherans, Zuinglians, Calvinists, Hugonots, Anabaptists, Trinitarians, and Apostates from the Christian Faith, and all other Hereticks by whatsoever name they are called, and of whatsoever Sect they be: as also their Adherents, Receivers, Favourers, and generally any Defenders of them; together with all who without our Authority, or that of the Apostolick See, knowingly read, keep, print, or any ways for any cause whatsoever, publickly [Page 6] or privately on any pre text or colour defend their Books containing Heresie, or treating of Religion; as also Schismaticks, and those who withdraw themselves, or recede obstinately from the obedience of us, or the Bishop of Rome for the time being.
§ 2. Further, We excommunicate and anathematize all and singular, of whatsoever station, degree or condition they be; and interdict all Ʋniversities, Colledges and Chapters, by whatsoever name they are called; who appeal from the Orders or Decrees of Ʋs, or the Popes of Rome for the time being to a future General Council; and those by whose aid and favour the Appeal was made.
§ 3. Further, We excommunicate and anathematize all Pirates, Corsairs and Robbers by Sea, roving about our Sea chiefly from Mount Argentiere to Terracina, and all their Abetters, Receivers and Defenders.
§ 4. Further, We excommunicate and anathematize all and singular, who when the Ships of any Christians are either driven out of the way by Tempest, or any ways suffer shipwrack, convey away any Goods of what kind soever, either in the Ships themselves, or cast out of the Ships into the Sea, or found on the Shore, as well in our Tyrrhenian and Adriatick Seas, as in any other Divisions of Shores of all Seas whatsoever; so that they shall not be excused by any Priviledge, Custom, or possession of time immemorial, or any other pretext whatsoever.
§ 5. Further, We excommunicate and anathematize all who impose or augment any new Tolls or Gabells in their Dominions, except in cases permitted to them by Law, or by especial leave of the Apostolick See; or, who exact such Taxes forbidden to be imposed or augmented.
§ 6. Further, We excommunicate and anathematize all Forgers of Apostolick Letters, even in form of a Brief, and [Page 8] of Supplications respecting Indulgence or Justice, signed by the Pope of Rome, or by the Vice-chancellours of the Holy see of Rome, or by their Deputies, or by the command of the said Pope; as also those who falsly publish the Apostolick Letters, even in form of a Brief; and those who falsly sign such Supplications in the name of the Pope of Rome, or the Vice-chancellour, or their Deputies.
§ 7. Further, We excommunicate and anathematize all those, who carry or transmit to the Saracens, Turks, and other Enemies and Foes of the Christian Religion, or to those who are expresly and by name declared Hereticks by the Sentence of us, or of this Holy See, Horses, Arms, Iron, dust of Iron, Tin, Steel, and all kind of Metals, and Warlike Instruments, Timber, Hemp, Ropes made as well of Hemp as of any other matter, and that matter whatsoever it be, and other things of this nature, which they make use of to the prejudice of Christians and Catholicks: as also those who [Page 9] by themselves or others give intelligence of matters relating to the State of Christendom to the Turks and Enemies of the Christian Religion to the hurt and prejudice of Christians, or to Hereticks to the prejudice of the Catholick Religion, or who any ways afford to them counsel, assistance or favour; notwithstanding any Privileges hitherto granted by Ʋs and the aforesaid See to any Persons, Princes or Commonwealths; wherein express mention is not made of this prohibition.
§ 8. Further, We excommunicate and anathematize all hindering or invading those, who bring Provisions, or any other things necessary, for the use of the Court of Rome; as also those who forbid, hinder or obstruct the bringing or conducting of them to the Court of Rome; or who abet the doers of these things either by themselves, or by others; of whatsoever order, preeminence, condition or quality they be, even although they be Bishops or Kings, or invested [Page 10] with any other Ecclesiastical or Secular Dignity.
§ 9. Farther, We excommunicate and anathematize all those who kill, maim, spoil, apprehend or detain by themselves, or by others, those who come to the Apostolick See, or return from it; as also all those who having no ordinary jurisdiction, nor any Delegated by Ʋs or our Judges, rashly challenging it to themselves, presume to commit any like actions against those who reside at the Court of Rome.
§ 10. Farther, We excommunicate and anathematize all who kill, maim, wound, detain, apprehend, or rob Travellers to Rome, or Pilgrims for the sake of Devotion or Pilgrimage going to that City, staying in it, or returning from it; and those who give aid, counsel or favour in these cases.
§ 11. Further, We excommunicate and anathematize all who slay, wound, maim, strike, apprehend, imprison, detain, or in hostile manner pursue the Cardinals of the Holy Church [Page 11] of Rome, and Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops, Legats or Nuncios of the Apostolick See; or those wo drive them out of their Territories, Diocesses, Lands or Dominions; or those who command or allow these things to be done, or give aid, counsel and favour to them.
§ 12. Further, We excommunicate and anathematize all those, who by themselves or by others slay, or any ways strike or despoil any Ecclesiastical or Secular Persons having recourse to the Court of Rome for their Causes and Affairs, and prosecuting and managing them in the said Court, or even the Auditors or Judges deputed for the hearing and managing of the said Causes and Affairs, upon occasion of these Causes and Affairs: as also those who by themselves or by others directly or indirectly presume to act or procure the said Crimes, or to give aid, counsel or favour to them, of whatsoever preheminence or dignity they be.
§ 13. Further, We excommunicate and anathematize all those, as well Ecclesiasticks as Seculars, of whatsoever dignity they be, who under pretence of a certain frivolous appeal from the injustice or future execution of the Apostolick Letters, even in form of a Brieve, respecting as well indulgence▪ as justice, as also from the injustice and future execution of Citations, Inhibitions, Sequestrations, Monitories, Processes, Executorials and other Decrees, issuing out, or which shall at any time issue out from Ʋs and the aforesaid See, or our Legates, Nuncios, or Presidents, from the Auditors of our▪ Palace and Apostolick Chamber, from our Commissaries, and other Apostolick Judges and Delegates: as also those, who any other ways have recourse to Secular Courts and the Lay Power; and who cause such Appeals to be admitted by the Secular Courts, even although the Procurator and Advocate of the Exchequer should require it; or who cause the▪ [Page 13] aforesaid Letters, Citations, Inhibitions, Sequestrations, Monitories, &c. to be seized or retained; or those who hinder or forbid the said Letters to be put in execution, either simply, or without their goodwill, consent▪ or examination; or who hinder or forbid Scriveners or Notaries from making or delivering when made to the Parties concerned any Instruments or Acts concerning the execution of these Letters and Processes; or who apprehend, strike, wound, imprison, detain, drive out of Cities, Places and Kingdoms, despoil of their Goods, terrify, vex and threaten, either by themselves or by others, publickly or privately, the Parties, or their Agents, Kindred on both sides, their Friends, Notaries, the Executors or Sub-executors of the said Letters, Citations, Monitories, &c. or who any other way presume directly or indirectly to forbid, ordain and command, any Persons in general [...] in particular, to betake themselves, or haue recourse to the See of Rome to prosecute their Affairs of any kind, or to obtain Indulgences [Page 14] or Letters, or who forbid them to obtain the said Indulgences, or to make use of them when obtained of the said See; or who presume to retain the said Indulgences in their own hands, or in the hands of a Notary or a Scrivener, or any other way.
§ 14. Further we Excommunicate and Anathematize all and singular, who by themselves or by others, by their own Authority and de facto, under pretence of any exemptions, or any other Apostolick Indulgences and Letters, take away the cognizance of Benefices, and Tithes, and other spiritual Causes, or annexed to spirituals from our Auditors and Commissaries, and other Ecclesiastical Judges; and hinder the proceeding and audience of them, and the Persons, Chapters, Convents, Colledges, desiring to prosecute the said Causes; or who intrude themselves as Judges in the Cognizance of them; or who by order, or any other way compel the Plaintiffs to withdraw, or cause to be withdrawn, their Citations, or Inhibitions, or any other Letters decreed in the spiritual [Page 15] Court; and the Defendants, against whom such Inhibitions were issued out, to procure, or consent to be absolved from the Censures or Punishments contained in them; or who any ways hinder the execution of Apostolick Letters, Executorials, Processes and Decrees aforesaid; or give their allowance, counsel, or assent to it, even under pretence of hindering violence, or any other pretexts whatsoever, or even until they shall Petition us, or cause us to be Petitioned for our better information, as is commonly pretended, unless they prosecute such Petitions before us and the Apostolick See in lawful form; even although those who commit such things should be Presidents of Chanceries, Councils, or Parliaments, Chancellors, Vicechancellors, ordinary or extraordinary Counsellors of any secular Princes, (whether they be Emperors, Kings, Dukes, or any other dignity) or Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Commendataries or Vicars.
§. 15. Also those who under pretence of their Office, or at the instance of any party, or of any others, draw, or cause and procure to be drawn, directly, or indirectly, upon any pretext whatsoever, Ecclesiastical Persons, Chapters, Convents, Colledges of any Churches, before them to their Tribunal, Audience, Chancery, Counsel, or Parliament, against the Rules of the Canon-Law; as also those who for any cause, or under any pretext, or by pretence of any Custom or Priviledg, or any other way, shall make, enact, and publish any Statutes, Orders, Constitutions, Pragmaticks, or any other Decrees in general or in particular; or shall use them when made and enacted; whereby the Ecclesiastical Liberty is violated, or any ways injured or depressed, or by any other means restrained; or whereby the Rights of us and of the said See, and of any other Churches, are any way directly or indirectly, tacitely or expresly prejudged.
§ 16. Also those who upon this account directly or indirectly hinder Archbishops, Bishops, and other superior and inferior Prelates, and all other ordinary Ecclesiastical Judges whatsoever by any means, either by imprisoning or molesting their Agents, Proctors, Domesticks, kindred on both sides, or by any other way, from exerting their Ecclesiastical jurisdiction against any persons whatsoever, according as the Canons and sacred Ecclesiastical Constitutions and Decrees of General Councils, and especially that of Trent, do appoint; as also those who after the sentence and decrees of the Ordinaries themselves, or of those delegated by them, or by any other means eluding the judgment of the Ecclesiastical Court, have recourse to Chanceries or other secular Courts, and procure thence Prohibitions and even Penal Mandates to be decreed against the said Ordinaries and Delegates and executed against them; also those who make and execute these Decrees, or who give aid, counsel, countenance or favour to them.
§ 17. Also those who usurp any Jurisdictions, Fruits, Revenues and Emoluments belonging to Ʋs and the Apostelick See, and any Ecclesiastical persons upon account of any Churches, Monasteries, or other Ecclesiastical benefices; or who upon any occasion or cause sequester the said Revenues without the express leave of the Bishop of Rome or others having lawful power to do it.
§ 18. Also those who without the like special and express licence of the Pope of Rome impose Tributes, Tenths, Talleys, Subsidies, and other Charges upon Clergy-men, Prelates, and other Ecclesiastical persons, and the Goods, Fruits, Revenues and Emoluments of them and of the Churches, Monasteries, and other Ecclesiastical Benefices; and exact them by divers artifices, or even receive them so imposed from the Clergy, although they should of their own accord grant and give them: Also those who by themselves or others directly or indirectly fear not to do, execute or procure the said things, [Page 19] or to give aid, counsel or favour to them, of whatsoever preheminence, dignity, order, condition or quality they be, although they be Emperors, or Kings, or Princes, Dukes, Earls, Barons, and other Potentates whatsoever, even Presidents of Kingdoms, Provinces, Cities and Territories, Counsellors, and Senators, or invested even with any Pontifical Dignity. Renewing the Decrees set forth concerning these Matters by the Sacred Canons, as well in the last Council of Lateran, as in other General Councils, together with the Censures and Punishments contained in them.
§ 19. Further, We excommunicate and anathematize all and every Magistrates and Judges, Notaries, Scribes, Executors, Subexecutors, any ways intruding themselves in capital or criminal causes against Ecclesiastical Persons by processing, banishing, or apprehending them, or pronouncing or executing any sentences against them, without the special, particular and express licence of this Holy Apostolical See; also those who extend [Page 20] such licences to Persons or Cases not expressed, or any other way injustly abuse them; although the Offenders should be Counsellors, Senators, Presidents, Chancellours, Vice-chancellours, or entitled by any other name.
§ 20. Farther, We excommunicate and anathematize all those, who by themselves, or by others, directly or indirectly, under any title or colour whatsoever shall presume to invade, destroy, seize and detain, in whole or in part, the City of Rome, the Kingdom of Sicily, the Islands of Sardinia and Corsica, the Territories about Faro, St. Peter's Patrimony in Tuscany, the Dukedom of Spoleto, the County of Venoso, and Sabinum, Marca di Ancona, Massa, Trebaria, Romandiola, Campania, and the Maritime Provinces, and their Territories and Places, and the Lands held in special commission by the Arnulfi, and our Cities of Bononia, Caesena, Ariminum, Beneventum, Citta di Castello, Todi, Ferrara, Comaclo, and other Cities, Lands and Places and Rights belonging to the [Page 21] Church of Rome, and subjected mediately or immediately to the said Church of Rome; also those who presume by divers means to usurp, disturb, detain, and vex the supreme Jurisdiction of the said Dominions belonging to Ʋs and the Church of Rome; also their Adherents, Favourers and Defenders, or those who any way give assistance, counsel or favour to them.
§ 21. Willing that our present Processes, and all and every thing contained in these Letters, continue in force, and be put in excution; till other Processes of this kind be made and published by Ʋs and the Pope of Rome for the time being.
§ 22. In fine, none may be absolved from the aforesaid Censures by any other than by the Pope of Rome, unless he be at the point of death, nor even then, unless he giveth caution to stand to the commands of the Church, and give satisfaction. In all other cases none shall be absolved, not even under pretence of any Faculties or Indulgences granted [Page 22] and renewed by Ʋs and the said See, and the Decrees of any Council, by Words, Letters, or any other Writing, in general or in particular, to any Persons Ecclesiastical, Secular, and Regular of any Orders, even of the Mendicant and Military Orders, or to any Persons invested with Episcopal, or any greater Dignity, and to Orders themselves and their Monasteries, Convents, Houses and Chapters, to Colledges, Confraternities, Congregations, Hospitals, and Pious Places, as also to Laymen, although they should be Emperours, Kings, or eminent in any other secular Dignity.
§ 23. If by chance any shall against the tenor of these Presents, de facto, presume to bestow the benefit of Absolution upon any such involved in excommunication and anathema, or any of them; we include them in the sentence of Excommunication, and shall afterwards proceed more severely against them both by spiritual and temporal Punishments, as we shall think most convenient.
§ 24. Declaring and protesting that no Absolution, altho solemnly made by Ʋs, shall comprehend, or any other way avail the aforesaid excommunicated Persons comprehended under these present Letters; unless they desist from the premisses with a firm purpose, of never committing the like thing; nor those, who, as was before said, have made Statutes against the Ecclesiastical Liberty; unless they first publickly revoke these Statutes, Orders, Constitutions, Pragmaticks and Decrees, and cause them to be blotted and expunged out of the Archives, Rolls, and Registers wherein they are preserved, and farther certify Ʋs of this revocation: moreover, that by any such Absolution, or any other contrary Acts, tacit or express, or even by the connivance and toleration of Ʋs and our Successours for how long time soever continued, none nor any of the Premisses, nor any Right of the Apostolick See and Holy Church of Rome howsoever and whensoever obtained, or to be obtained, can or ought to be prejudged or receive any prejudice.
§ 25. Notwithstanding any Priviledges▪ Indulgences, Grants, and Apostolick Letters general er special, granted by the Holy See to any of the aforesaid Persons, or any one of them, or any others, of whatsoever order, quality or condition, dignity and preheminence they be; although, as was before said, they should be Bishops, Emperours, Kings, or eminent in any other Ecclesiastick or Secular Dignity, or to their Kingdoms, Provinces, Cities, and Dominions, for any cause whatsoever, even by way of contract or reward, and under any other form and tenor, and with any Clauses whatsoever, even derogatory of those which should derogate from them; or even containing that the said Persons or Places shall not be excommunicated, anathematized or interdicted by any Apostolick Letters, which do not make full and express mention and exact repetition of the said Grant, and of the Orders, Places, Proper names, Sirnames and Dignities of the said Persons; as also notwithstanding [Page 25] all Customs, even immemorial, and Prescriptions, how long soever, and any other Observances written or not written, by which the said Persons may help and defend themselves against these our Processes and Censures from being included in them. All which Grants, as far as relates to this matter, and the whole tenor of them, accounting them expressed in these Presents as if they had been verbatim inserted, nothing omitted, we utterly abolish and wholly revoke; and notwithstanding any other Pleas which may be alledged to the contrary.
§ 26. But that these our present Processes may more easily come to the knowledge of all Persons; We have caused the Papers and Parchments containing the Processes themselves to be affixed in the City to the doors of the Church of St. John Lateran, and of the Church of the Prince of the Apostles; that those whom these Processes concern, may pretend no excuse or alledge ignorance, as if they had not come to their knowledge; since it is not probable, that should [Page 26] remain unknown, which is so openly published to all men.
§ 27. Moreover, that the Processes themselves, and these present Letters, and all and every thing contained in them may become more manifest by being published in many Cities and Places; We by these Writings entrust, and in vertue of holy obedience strictly charge and command all and singular Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, Ordinaries of Places, and Prelates wheresoever constituted, that by themselves or some other or others, after they shall have received these present Letters, or have knowledge of them, they solemnly publish them in their Churches once a year or oftner, if they see convenient, when the greater part of the People shall be met for celebration of Divine Service; put faithful Christians in mind of them, relate them, and declare them.
§ 28. Lastly, all Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ordinaries of Places, and Prelates of Churches, as also all Rectors, and others having cure of Souls, and [Page 27] Priests secular and regular of whatsoever Orders, deputed by any authority to hear confession of sins, shall have a Transcript of these present Letters by them, and shall diligently study to read and understand them.
§ 29. Our farther pleasure is, that the same credit in judgment and out of judgment, shall in all places be given to Copies, although Printed, of these presents, subscribed by any publick Notary, and sealed by the ordinary Judge of the Court of Rome, or any other person in Ecclesiastical dignity; as would be given to these presents themselves, if they should be produced or shewn.
§ 30. Let no man therefore infringe, or boldly and rashly oppose this our Letter of Excommunication, Anathematization, Interdict, Innovation, Innodation, Declaration, Protestation, Abolition, Revocation, Commission, Command and Pleasure: But if any one shall presume to attempt it; let him know that he shall incur the displeasure of Almighty God, and of his Blessed [Page 28] Apostles Peter and Paul.
Given at Rome from St. Peter in the year of our Lord's Incarnation, One thousand six hundred and ten, the eighth of April, in the fifth year of our Popedom.
In the year, from the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ 1613. Indict. 11. the 4th day of the Month April, and the eighth year of the Popedom of our most Holy Father in Christ, and our Lord Paul V. by Divine Providence Pope, the aforesaid Letters were affixed and published at the Doors of the Churches of St. John Lateran, and the Prince of the Apostles, and in the field of Flora, by us Balthazar Vacha and Brandimars Latini Cursors.