INTRODUCTION. 31 deavour to preserve, defend, increase, and advance. Iwill not be in any counsel, action, or treaty in which shall be plotted against our said lord, and the said Roman church, any thing to the hurt or prejudice of their persons, right, honour, state, orpower. And if I shall know any such thing to be treated or agitated by any whatso- ever, I will hinder it to mypower; and as soon as I can will sig- nify it to our said lord, or to some other, by whom it may come to his knowledge. The rules of the holyfathers, the apostolic decrees, ordinances, or disposals, reservations, provisions, and mandates, I will observe with all my might, and cause to be observed by others. Heretics, schismatics, and rebels to our said lord or his foresaid successors, I will to my power persecute and oppose. I will come to a council when I am called, unless I be hindered by a canonical impediment. I will by myself in person visit the threshold of the apostles every three years, and give an account to our lord and his foresaid successors of all my pastoral office, and of all things any wise belonging to the state of my church, to the discipline of my clergy and people, and lastly to the salvation of-souls committed to my trust; and will in like manner humbly receive and diligently execute the apostolic commands. And ifI be detained by a lawful impediment, I will perform all the things aforesaid by a certain messenger hereto specially empowered, a member ofmy chapter, or some other in ecclesiastical dignity, or else having aparsonage; or in default of these, by apriest of the diocese; or in default of one of the clergy [of the diocese]; by some other secular or regular priest of approved integrity and religion, fully instructed in all things above mentioned. And such impediment Iwill make out by lawful proofs, to be transmitted by the foresaid messenger to the cardinal proponent of the holy Roman church in the congregation of the sacred council. The possessions belonging to my table Iwill neither sell, nor give away, nor mortgage, nor grant anew in fee, nor any wise alienate, no, not evenwith the consent of the chapter of my church, without consulting the Romcnpontiff: And ifI shall make any alienation, I will thereby incur the penalties contained in a certain constitution putforth about this matter. So help me God and these holy gospels of God."' Ego N, electus ecclesice N; ab hac hora in antea fidelis et obediens ero B. Petro apos- tolo, sanctmque Romanm ecclesise, et domino nostro, domino N; palm N, suisque suc- cessoribus canonice intrantibus. Non ero in consilio, aut consenso, vel facto, ut vitam perdant aut membrum, seu capiantur mala captione, aut in eos manes guomodolibet ingerantur, vel injuria aliqua inferantur, quovis qucesito colore. Consilium vero quod credituri cunt, per se, aut nuncios suos, seu literas, ad eorum damnum, me sciente, nemini pandam. Papatum Romanum et regalia Sancti Petri adjutoreis ero ad defenden- dum et retinendum, salvo meo ordine contra omnem hominem. Legatum apostolicm sedis ineundo et redeundo honorifice tractabo, et in suis necessitatibusadjuvabo. Jura, honores, privilegia, et auctoritatem sancta Romana ecccesice domini nostri papa et succes.
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