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A40843	The famous bull in Cœna Domini published at Rome every Maunday Thursday against hereticks and all infringers of ecclesiastical liberties with a preface containing some reflections on the bull, and animadversions on the late account of the proceedings of the Parliament of Paris.; Pastoralis Romani Pontificis vigilantia. English & Latin	Catholic Church. Pope (1605-1621 : Paul V); Paul V, Pope, 1552-1621.	1688 (1688)	Wing F365; ESTC R2280	23,075	70

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as Judges in the Cognizance of them or who by order or any other way compel the Plaintiffs to withdraw or cause to be withdrawn their Citations or Inhibitions or any other Letters decreed in the spiritual Court and the Defendants against whom such Inhibitions were issued out to procure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 Vice-chancellors 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-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 Vs 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 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 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 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 Vs 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 Vs 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 and renewed by Vs 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 Vs 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 Vs 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 Vs 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 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 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 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 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 James Brambilla Mag. Curs FINIS