and their Councils Abridged. 43F r 6. By this it came to pats, that withoutall difficulty he that gavemolt, carried it: And the fame courfe was held inSacraments, Indulgences, Di- fpenfations, and otherEccleliaftical and Spiritual Gifts. 17. That he ufually fold the fame Benefice divers times over to divers perfons, or to the fatre, filencing Claims of Right ; whereby the whole Church was defiled with Simony , * filled with the unworthy , both in *Which higher and lower Prelacies, etrc. Council, r8. That he refufed to. Confirm thole that were Canonically Eleéìed, Heredgel unlefseven to fatiety they glutted himwith Money, putting the unworthy in their flead, and tranflated men againft their wills from their Churches, that be might fell them dearer. rp. That promifing Church.Reformation in the Council at Pifa, he calledone at Rome, and being there publickly admonithed, being í.ncorri- Bible by the Devils inftinák, did worfe. 2o. That he fold for Money Indulgences at the hour of death, the Predi- cation of the Crofs, Abfolutionsfrom fault and punifhment, Conceflions of Churches andportableAltars, Confecrationsof Bithops, Benedictions of Abbots, Relicks of Saints, Holy Orders, power in Confeflion to abfolve from fins, and Ads that may be miniftred only by the Operations of the Holy Ghoftfor Grace. 2 r. That one Nic. Fijiorius, a Florence Merchant, and the Popes Secreta- ry, a Lay married man, was made by the Pope his Legate Apoftolical, Cent into Brabant to exact and receive a Subfidy, which was the tenthpart of the fruit of all Benefices in divers Citiesand Dioceffes, and to excommuni- cate the refufers by a certain deputed Sublegate, t and fufpend Colledges, í'oLike a Covents, Chapters, &e. Lay Chan- cellor 2. That he authorized this Nicholas to grant to all perfons of each s $ P his Sucre. Sex, for Money to choofe their Confeffors, that might abfolve from fault gate. and punifhment, by which the Merchant got vaft fums of Money, feducing the people. 23. That all the premifes are known, true, proved, &c. 24. That Anno i¢12. Ambaffadors from the King, Bithops, andUniver- Pities of France, admonifhed him charitably of this fcandalous, infamous Simony. 2 5. That ke amended not by it, but didworfe. 26. That he is defamed of all this in all Kingdomes of the Chtiftian World. 27. That he abufed Renie and the Churches Patrimony, exhaufting the people, and imburfing it himfelf, by Taxes, Gabels, &c. Many in lances are added. 28. For there things many Crimes, Sacriledges, Adulteries, Murders, Spoils,Rapine and Thefts were committed in Rome, through his fault. 2p. It is the common voice, opinion, aflèrtionand belief, that in thefé, and innumerable other evils,, he is the greateft Dilapidator and Diflipator of the Church affairs that ever was, scandalous to the itniverfal Church, a K k k 2 Witch,
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