even on those who may be already possessed of, or expecting any other ecclesiastical benefices, in whatever number, or of whatever quality soever they may be; and to declare these deprived as aforesaid, for ever infamous, and incapable, for the time to come, of obtaining the like or any others; and to fulminate all sorts of censures, according as justice, rebellion, or disobedience, shall appear to you to require; to inflict an interdict, and when inflicted, either to remove it finally, or only to suspend it for a time, according as it may be found expedient, on good reasons and consideration, as you may know to be useful and necessary; but chiefly on those days on which perhaps indulgences are to be published, or the croisade to be preached;—and to prodor ceed directly and simpliciter, without the noise and form of justice, having only regard to truth, against those who carry to these heretics, or their accomplices, provisions, arms, or other things prohibited, and other aiders, abetters, advisers, or entertainers of them, whether open or secret, or who by any means hinder or disturb the execution of such a salutary enterprize; and to declare all and every one of the transgressors to have incurred the censures and pains, both spiritual and temporal, which are inflicted, of right, upon those who do such things;-as also to restore and absolve those who are penitent, and willing to return again to the bosom of the church as formerly, even though they should have taken an oath to favour the heretics, or had received their pay to fight for them, or had supplied them with arms, succours, victuals, and other things forbidden; providing they promise by taking an oath of a different kind, or otherwise give sufficient security, that for the time to come they will obey our mandates, those of the church, and yours, whether they be communities, universities, or particular persons, of whatever state, order, or pre-eminence they be, or in whatever dignity, ecclesiastical or civil, they may be elevated; and to re-establish and put them in possession of their hon

ours, dignities, offices, benefices, fiefs, goods, and other rights, of which they were formerly possessed;-and in fine, to concede, dispose, establish, ordain, command, and execute, all and every other matters necessary or in any respect conducive to this salutary business, even though they should be such as require a particular order, and are not comprehended in your general commission; and to check and restrain all opposers thereof, by ecclesiastical censures, and other suitable and lawful remedies, without regard to any appeal whatever; and, if need be, to call in to your assistance the aid of the secular arm. And our will is, that all privileges, exemptions, apostolical letters, and indulgences of any kind, granted by us, in general or particular, or in manner aforesaid, under any form of words or expressions, shall be held void, and as letters not granted, so far as they are inconsistent with, and tend to hinder or retard these presents, we hereby deprive them of all force, together with all other things whatever that are contrary, though the Holy See should have granted to any, either generally or particularly, that they could not be interdicted, suspended, or excommunicated and deprived of their dignities and benefices, or smitten with any other apostolical pain, if in the apostolical letters there be not full and express mention made, word for word, of such an indulgence.

Thou, therefore, my dearly beloved son, undertaking with a devout mind the charge of such a meritorious work, shew yourself diligent, solicitous, and careful in word and deed to execute it, so that from your labours, attended with the divine favour and grace, the expected success and fruits may follow; and that, by your solicitude, you may not only merit for reward the glory which is bestowed on those who are employed in designs and affairs of piety, but also that you may obtain, and not undeservedly, the more abundant commendations from us, and from the apostolic see, on account of your most exact diligence and faithful integrity.

And, because it may be difficult to transmit these present letters to all places where they may be necessary, we will, and by apostolical authority appoint, that, to a copy which may be taken and subscribed by the hand of any public notary, and attested by the subscription of any ecclesiastical prelate, entire faith may be given, and that it should be held as valid, and the same regard paid to it as to the original letters, if they had been produced and shewn.

› Given at Rome, at St Peter's, in the year of the incarna*tion of our Lord 1477, the 5th of the kal. of May, in the third year of our pontificate.

This monument of Papal bigotry achieved its object→→ a crusade commenced against the Waldenses, by which they were annihilated. When we think of the melancholy fate of this martyred Christian people, we are led to exclaim, in the pathetic language of Milton,

The

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones

Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold;
Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old,
When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones,
Forget not; in thy book record their groans—

Slain by the bloody Piemontese, who roll'd
Mother with infant down the rocks; their moans
The vales redoubled to the hills, and they

To heaven."

prayer will be heard :—the time is at hand when the millions of the "excellent ones of the earth" whom Popery hath martyred, shall be avenged. For thus spake the voice from heaven :

"Come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded

How

you, and double unto her double, according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled, fill to her double. much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her; for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire for strong is the LORD GOD who judgeth her." Rev. xviii. 4-8.

P. NEILL, PRINTER.

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