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1 and punishment. Although undeserving, placed in such a position; we are constrained by grave sorrow, whenever we turn the eyes of our consideration to a part of the Lord's Flock, that is to the ecclesiastical assembly; and we behold it dishonored either by depraved morals or by unseemly acts; for we are not ignorant how great is the danger of corruption to be feared among the peoples from this; if the salt by which all other things ought to be seasoned shall have lost its savor. It has indeed come to the ears of our solicitude, not rarely does it happen that certain Clerics constituted in minor or major orders, or decorated with ecclesiastical tonsure alone, possessing Benefices, simple Offices or with the burden of residence, resign them to others; with an annual pension reserved to themselves under Apostolic approval, made at the same time a pact with the Resignee for canceling and abolishing the said pension, money being represented namely by certain anticipated payments of sums to that amount; which was established by express convention between the Parties for the abolition and extinction of the aforesaid pension, or rather for the concealed sale of the benefice itself to be wickedly carried out. And since profane merchants of Benefices are not lacking; because if such improper pacts should become known to our Apostolic Ministers or to us; such resignations would never be admitted by our Datary; or Pro-datary; or by us; or by other Roman Pontiffs existing for the time being; so that the cunning depravity of wicked men might elude the circumspect vigilance of the same Apostolic Datary Officials, and ours, and of other Pontiffs, this way and method of perdition has been devised; by secret and clandestine pact between the Resignor and the Resignee, for the pension to be canceled and extinguished; by the quantity of money agreed upon; and this sometimes also deposited with a public merchant or money-changer, together; and at the same time they arrange for the Bull of resignation of the Benefice to be expedited; and another of the Pension reserved on the same Benefice in favor of the Resignor; in such a way, however, that shortly after the same, or not long after the time, to which the Supplication for the reservation of the Pension is usually dated, another Supplication is subscribed, or signed for the cancellation, and according to the same Pension to be made by anticipated or to be anticipated payments; with no mention made of the preceding abominable convention, and the simoniacal stain reeking pact, by which the resignation of the Benefice is transformed by execrable change into the concealed sale of the same Benefice. Since therefore pacts of this kind are patent, improper, reprobated, condemned; and grants of such cancellation, or extinction of the Pension, as obtained by subreptitious and fraudulent cunning, and which, in the reality of the matter and in the whole series of the business expressed; would never have been granted by the Apostolic See, are null, void, and empty, and render the greatest damage and detriment to the souls of those fraudulently obtaining them, and moreover scandal to the simple and good, abomination; and to many eternal ruin: Indeed those obtainers of such grants, who traffic in ecclesiastical Benefices in such infamous commerce rather than resign them, not only ensnare their souls in most grievous sin; which they ought to have before their eyes; but moreover openly before all in the people not without infamy of the ecclesiastical order, are execrated; and despised; And if they shall have dared to approach the Apostolic Datary for obtaining other Benefices, as sellers of Benefices they are ill-spoken of; and publicly rebuked; since immediately to them by their competitors is opposed the Resignation made, with the cancellation of the Pension by anticipated or to be anticipated payments; that is, the unworthy commerce of the Benefice already previously obtained; and the clandestine under ambiguities, and fraudulent conventions detestable sale. We therefore this execrable matter of the cancellation of the Pension, by which no light injury is done to the ecclesiastical Order.

2 me with disgrace; and an infamous mark is impressed, as the dignity and necessity and pastoral duty demands, it is annulled. : : : : Wishing to restrain such things in the future, and to remove far from the Sanctuary of God such profane abomination, by Our own motion, with certain knowledge, and mature deliberation of Ours, and from the fullness of Apostolic power, We establish and declare that all such pacts and agreements for the cessation or abolition of Pensions through anticipated or to be anticipated payments made contemporaneously with the Resignations of Benefices, with reservation of Pension, entered into by whatever persons adorned with whatever dignity, honor, and preeminence, as disapproved by the Sacred Canons and Apostolic Constitutions, and smelling of the stain of simony, are null, void, and invalid; and all such cessations, abolitions, and extinctions of Pensions which shall happen to be made hereafter within six months from the day of taking possession of the Benefice by the Resignatory, computed from that day, even if no pact between the parties can be proved to have intervened; and even if the aforesaid cessation be made by virtue of a Supplication signed by Our hand or that of the Roman Pontiff for the time being; which We in no way wish to be valid, as obtained through subreptitiousness and frauds, neither in judgment nor outside it, for any effect; but to be null, void, and empty; and (insofar as it is necessary) by motion, knowledge and deliberation similar, and from the fullness of Apostolic power, by the tenor of these presents We condemn, revoke, annul, void and abolish; and furthermore both the Resignor and the Resignatory are deprived of all right to the Benefice, and they themselves by that very fact, without any other declaration of Us or of a Judge's sentence, are deprived; and shall be unable to obtain any other Benefice; and that from anyone this Benefice, as vacant by law and by fact, can be sought; and moreover We decree and declare that the Resignor is bound under grave sin to restore the monies received for the cessation of such Pension indebitely and simoniacally, which by the judgment of the Ordinary shall be applied to pious places or distributed to poor persons; and if he refuse, he can be compelled by ecclesiastical remedies and penalties, by Our motion, knowledge, and equal power, without any other sentence and declaration, by right itself. And because there is much malice of men on earth, so that all access to fraud, deceits and tricks which the perverse cunning of some is accustomed to devise for their own destruction, insofar as it can be done, may be cut off; We will, command, and declare, under this Our will, constitution, and disposition, to be comprehended all and singular cessions, translations to the Resignatory himself, or to another person, of the benefit or utility of receiving the fruits of such Pensions, as well as all other cessions, translations, resignations, extinctions, abolitions, in whatever manner, title, name, color, and authority, made through anticipated payments or represented money within the said time of six months; and even beyond that space of time, provided that the reprobate and detestable pact shall have preceded it. We moreover command and enjoin that these same present letters be perpetually firm, valid, and efficacious, and at no time under whatever color and pretext, even of defect of Our intention, be able to be impugned: And thus, and not otherwise; in all and singular of the aforesaid, by whatever Ordinary and Delegated Judges, even the Auditors of Cases of the Apostolic Palace, and the aforesaid Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, even Legates a Latere, and Nuncios of the Apostolic See, and all others whatsoever exercising and about to exercise whatever preeminence and power, with the faculty and authority of judging and interpreting otherwise taken away from them and from each of them, it ought to be judged and decided; and if anything contrary to this be attempted by anyone whatsoever with whatever authority knowingly or unknowingly, it shall be null and void. Notwithstanding the wills, conditions, protestations, and clauses of the Resignors or Cedents, appended in the resignations and cessions themselves, or in the constitutions and Mandates of Procurators, and otherwise, even for the preservation of their rights and signification that they do not resign or cede otherwise or in another manner, and expressed with whatever force of words, formula, and multiplication and amplitude; as well as whatever indults, privileges, and Apostolic graces both general and particular; however worthy of special mention and note, granted and confirmed to whatever Archbishops, Bishops, and other superior and inferior Prelates of Churches, even Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, and their and Our familiar continuous table-companions, as well as to the Writers of Apostolic Letters, Abbreviators, and other Officials of the Roman Curia; and whatever other things contrary to these. Furthermore, so that these present Letters may be easily known to all, and no one may excuse himself on the pretext of ignorance of them, We command that the same be published at the doors of the Lateran Church and of the Prince of the Apostles, as well as at the Apostolic Chancery, and the general Curia on the Citatorio Hill, and in the Field of Flowers of the City, and in other places customary and accustomed, as is the custom, and that copies of them be affixed: And We will that they thus published affect and bind all and singular just as if they had been singularly intimated to them. And also with copies of the aforesaid even printed, and signed by the hand of a public Notary and the seal of an Ecclesiastical Prelate or his Curia, the same faith is to be given as would be given to these presents, if they were exhibited or shown. Let no one whatsoever be permitted to infringe this page of Our decree, constitution, declaration, annulment, invalidation, prohibition, interdict, and will; or to dare to act contrary to it; but if anyone should presume to attempt this, let him know that he will incur the indignation of Almighty God, and of the Blessed Peter and Paul His Apostles. Given at Rome at St.

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1 e puna., : . 2 fpenfatione; licét immerentes , collocati; gravi dolore ' conftringimur, quoties confi- derationis noftre oculos. convertimus rem Dominici Gregis partem ,. hoc eft ad Ecclefiafticum coetum ;. eumque confpicimus ; vel pravis moribus, vel indeco- 1is acübus dehoneftari ; j non enim rdgnas neficii , inhabilitationis ad alia - ad prarftantio- fumus , quanta fit inde in populis corru- 174 I. ptionis timenda pernicies ;. fi fal ; unde €oetera condiri debent evanuerit . f.1. Pervenit quidem ad aures folli. txreniur citudinis noftrz,non raró contingere folegionm refers re, ut quidam Clerici in minoribus . vel sc vc. majoribus ordinibus conftituti , aut. fola 29*»* p- &o eam abo- Ecclefiaftica tonfura decorati , Beneficia , «ii - fei Officia fimplicia vel cum onere refidentiz poffidentes , aliis refignent ; annua fibi penfione fub Apoflolico beneplacito refervata , inito codem tempore pado cum Refignataário caffandi, & abolendi — - dictam penfionem, repracfentata pecunia nempe factis quibufdam anticipatis folutionibus pecuniarum ad eam fummam; - quz ad abolitionem, & extindtionem prz didtz penfionis » vel potius ad palliatam | ipfi us beneficii venditionem nefarie per ficiendam , exprefla j inter Partes conyentione , ftabilita fuit, Et. quoniam profani sodes. b foliifti Beneficiorum diftradores- Hon IgDO* i, «a exor rant;quod fi hujufmodi improba padta Da: dicun sc taric Apoftolice noftrz Miniftrisjaut Noferien. bis innotefcerent ; nunquam refignationes hujufinodi a Datario ;. vel Prodatario Noftro ; vel. a Nobis; Alüfque Romanis Pontificibus pro tempore exiftentibus admitterentur; ut circumfpedam eorumdem Datariz Apoftolice Officialium , & Noftram ,. aliorumque Pontificum vigilantiam fallerent , callida malorum hominum improbitas. hanc perditionis viam ; & rationem excogitavit; Arcano , & clandeftino pacto inter Refignantem , & Refignatarium , ad penfionem caffandam , & extinguendam; conventa pecuniae quantitate; edque quandoque etiam depofità. apud publicum i mercatorem s fcü menfam. argentariam , unitim ; ac fimul expediri curant Bullam refignationis Beneficii ; & | alteram Penfionis refervatz fuper. codem Beneficio favore Refignantis; 1ta tamen ; ut prope eodem , vel non multó poft tem- - pore , quo Supplicationi pro refervatione . Penftonis folira Data apponitur , alia Supplicatio fubfcribatur , ífeü íignetur pro «affatione 5. atque iecdhdin ejufdem Penfionis per anticipatas ; feüanticipandas folutiones. faciendá » mulie mentione Ee 1741. facta de precedenti abominanda conventiope , & fimoniacam labem redolente pado , quo Bencficii refignatio 1n occultam ipfius Beneficii venditionem execrabili transformatione commutatur . Mia de — ff. 2. Cumautem hujus generis pateeqéit 5 improba , reprobata ,' damnata fint ; & grati hujufmodi caffationis ; feà exütin&ionis Penfionis, tanquam fubreptitiz, & dolofa calliditate obtentz , & que , rei veritate & totius negocii ferie exprella ; nunquam a Sede Apoftolica concefl fuif-: fent, nulle , irritz, ac inanes fint ,. & in maximum animarum cas fraudulenter impetrantium damnum , ac detrimentum rendant , Gk praterea. fcandalo fimplicibus, & bonis abominationi ; & pluribus zterno exitio finr: Siquidem gratiarum hujufmodi impetratores , qui Ecclefiaftica Beneficia tali infami mercatu negotiantur potis ;, quàm refignant non folàm graviffimo peccato ; quod pra oculis habere deberent ; animas fuas illaqueant; fed infuper palàm apud omnes in populo non fine infamia Ecclefiafüci ordinis , exfecrantur ; & contemnuntur ; Etfi pro alis Beneficiis obtinendis ad Datariam Apoftolicam accedere aufi fuerint , tanquam Beneficiorum Venditores malé audiunt ; & publicé redarguuntur ; cum fta tim ipfis ab eorum competitoribus opponatür Refignatio fada, cum caífadone Penftonis per anticipatas feü. anticipandas folutiones ; hoc eft , indigna Bencficii jam antca obtenti negotiatio ; & clandefina fub ambagibus, & fraudulentis conventionibus deteftanda venditio . pue e — f. 3. — Nos igitur hoc execrabile ma-- tionis Pen- ! x . NN foni coe; llf 9. quo non leve Ecclefiaftico Ordini Re: . .- c AER * iu. I:

2 me dedecus ; & infami nota inuritur , prout di»nán& neceffitas & paftorale munus poftulat , annullatur . : : : : MEER UED coercere 1n futurum volentes ,. & longé a Sanduario Dei profanam hujufmodi abominatonem removere Motu proprio , ac certa fcientia ,, & matura deliberatione Noftris, deque Apoftolice poteftatis plenitudine ftatuimus , & declaramus, omnia hujufmodi paca , & conventiones pro caffatione , fe abolitione Penfionum per anticipatas ; vel anticipandas folutio- nes contemporaneé ad Refignationes De- A. II, neficiorum., cum refervatione Penfionis ,. per quafcunque perfonas quavis dignitate, honore , ac praeminentia infignitas Inita , tanquam à Sacris Canonibus, && Apoftolicis Conftitutionibus improbata , & fimoniacam labem redolentia, nulla, caffa, ac irrita effe ; & omnes caffatio-. iu CEN vcn abolitioneg nes ; abolitiones , & exundiones Penfioyos num hujufmodi ; quas in pofterum intra 5... 5 fex menfes;à die captx pofleffionis Benefi- *»oe | ta intra fex cii per. Refignatarium | computandos 3e fieri contigerit ; etiam fi nullum pracefione Bel dens padtum interveniffe inter partes pro- '' bari poffit . & caffatio predica fecuza. fit vigore Supplicationis manu noftra vc] Romani Pontificis pro tempore fignatz ; quam nullatenus, tanquam per fubreptionem , & fraudes obtentam , neque 1n judicio ; neque extra, ad ullum effe&um eis fuffragari. volumus , irritas ; nullas ;, & inanes effe ; ac omnibus viribus, ac cffecu vacuas y. & quatenus opus fit) motu , fcientia & deliberatione fimili , deque Apoftolicze poteftatis plenitudine , tenore przfentium damnamus, revocamus; annullamus ; caffamus & abolemus & infuper tàm Refignantem, quàm Refignatarium ab omni Jure Beneficii. decidifle , «ee "fam . Refie gnans, quam x ? : rius Benef. eofque ipfo fa&to, abíque alia declaratios EE s : ipfo fado, & ne vel Judicis fententia ; privatos ; &'ad istabisa à : ; 2 ^ ia affeq. alia obtinenda inhabiles effe , ac fore j.& qeu, à quocumque Beneficium hujufmodi, tanquam de jure, & de fa&o vacans;impetrapewic pe ri potle ; & praterea Refignantem ad reveio dt : füituendas pecunias. pro caffatione Penfio- A cm nis hujufmodi indebite & fimoniace per-- -ceptas , quz arbitrio Ordinarii erunt piis locis applicandz ». vel. pauperibus perfonis diftribuendz , füb peccato gravi teneri » .& Ecclefiafticis remediis, ac poenis , fi renuat, ipfo jure, abíque alia fententia ; & declaratione ; cogi poffe motu, fcientia, & poteflate pari decernimus ; & declramus, - e — 4-4. Btquoniam multa malitia ho- 15 minum eft in terra , üt omnis aditus fraus« cer exigédiPendibus, & dolis quos perverfa nonnullo- 5,5, ze rum calliditas &in exitium fui ingeniointra fex menfes à Cà Ía excogitare confuevit ; quoad fieri pos«i* teít, . Pour. A. I. teft, intercludatur ; volumus , pracipimus,& declaratus, fub hac Noftra volun- - tate ; conftitutione ; & difpofitione comprehendi omnes ; & fingulas ceffiones , fci translationes in 1pfum Refignatarium , aut in aliam perfonam, commodi, fei utilitatis percipiendi frudus penfionum | hujufmodi , necnon alias quafcumque . ceffiones , translationes , refignationes , extinctiones , abolitiones, quovis modo , titulo ; nomine ; colore, & au&toritate, per anticipatas folutiones fei repraefentata pecunia factas intra didum tempus fex menfium 5 & etiam ultra id temporis fpatium, dummodo reprobum illud, & deteftabile pa&ium przceffiffe confüiterit ,- duüleh-. ff. $. Mandamus praterea & jube-- Jutares . mus, eafdem prafentes literas perpetuo firmas, validas, & efficaces exiftere I fore ,. & nullo unquam tempore fub quovis colore, & pretextu, ctiam defeus noftrz intentionis, impugnari pofle : Sicque, & non aliàs; in praemiffis omnibus , & fingulis,per quofcumque Judices Ordinarios, & Delegatos, etiam Caufarum Palatii Apoftolici Auditores, ac przdi- S x S. R. E. Cardinales , etiam de Latere à Legatos, & Sedis Apoflolice przfate NNuncios 5. aliofque quoflibet quacumque preeminentia , & poteílate fungentes , & functuros , fublatá eis , & eorum cuilibet quavis aliter judicandi; & interprc- - . tandi facultate ; & auctoritate, judicari ,- — — & definiri debere ; ac irritum, & inane; fi | fecus fuper his à quoquam quavis auctoseogidefitate fcienter ,. vel ignoranter contigerit rh. attentari: Non obftantibus Refignantium, 7^4 »- fed Cedentium voluntatibus, conditionifervationes * Mípbus, proteftationibus, & claufulis in tionibus adàs. — Ipfifmet refignationibus , & ceffionibus P loBIbUs , E fíeü Procuratorum conftitutionibus . & - Mandatis , ac aliàs, etiam ad prafervationem fuorum jurium , & fignificationem , quod non aliter, nec alio modo refignant, - feü cedunt, appofitis , & quacumque ver-- borum vi, formula, & muluplicatione , & amplitudine expreffis ;- necnon quibufvis indultis, privilegiis, & gratiis Apoftolicis tam generalibus , quàm particula- - ribus ; quantumvis fpeciali mentione , & . Bourranrvue. | ÀNNO nota dignis , quibufcumque Archiepifco- 1741. pis, Epifcopis, & aliis fuperioribus , & inferioribus Ecclefiarum Przlatis , etiam S. R. E. Cardinalibus, ac eorum, & noftris familiaribus continuis commenfalibus, necnon Literarum Apoftolicarum Scriptoribus ; Abbreviatoribus ; caeterifque Romanae Curie Officialibus conceffis & confirmatis , caterifque contrariis quibufcumque . | f.6. Costérum , ut facilis praíenpoticotes Literze omnibus innotefcant , & nemo UM pratextu illarum ignorantiz excufari pof (it , Jubemus , eafdem ad valvas Ecclefize Lateranenfis , & Principis Apoftolorum, necnon Cancellarie Apoftolice , Curizque generalis in Monte Citatorio , ac in - Acie Campi Flore de Urbe , aliifque locis folitis ; & confuetis ; ut moris eft, publicari eorumque exempla affigi : Vo- | lumufque eas fic publicatas ; omnes ; & - fingulos perindé afficere ; & obligare ac ft illis ipfis fuiffent fingulariter intimatz . Exemplis quoque predictis etiam impreferas fis , manuque Notarii publici ; & figillo sess. Praelati Ecclefiaftici, vel ejus Curiz-obfignatis, eamdem prorfus fidem adhiberi , quz ipfis przfentibus adhiberetur ,. fi forent exhibitz ,. vel oftenfe. f.7. Nulli ergo omnino hominum saei. liceat, hanc paginam Noftri decreti con- -fritutionis declarationis ; annullazionis , inhirmationis ; prohibitionis , interdiái ; ac voluntatis infringere ;. vel ei aufu temerario contraire; fi quis autem hoc attentare. prafumpferit , . indignationem: Omnipotentis Dei, ae Beatorum Petri, & Pauli Apoftolorum ejus fe noverit incurfurum . Datum Roms apud San-

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1 e pena., : . 2 spensazione; licet immerenti, collocati; grave dolore constrignimur, quoties considerationis nostre oculos convertimus rem Dominici Gregis partem, hoc est ad Ecclesiasticum coetum; eumque conspicimus; vel pravis moribus, vel indecorosis actibus dehonestari; non enim ignoras neficii, inhabilitationis ad alia ad praestantio sumus, quanta sit inde in populis corruptionis timenda pernicies; si fal; unde cetera condiri debent evanuerit. f.1. Pervenit quidem ad aures sollicitudinis nostre, non raro contingere solegionum referre, ut quidam Clerici in minoribus vel sc vc. majoribus ordinibus constituti, aut sola Ecclesiastica tonsura decorati, Beneficia, «ii - fei Officia simplicia vel cum onere residentiz possidentes, aliis resignent; annua sibi pensione sub Apostolico beneplacito reservata, inito eodem tempore pado cum Resignatario cassandi, & abolendi — - dictam pensionem, repraesentata pecunia nempe factis quibusdam anticipatis solutionibus pecuniarum ad eam summam; - quz ad abolitionem, & extindtionem prz didtz pensionis, vel potius ad palliatam ipsius beneficii venditionem nefarie per ficiendam, expressa inter Partes conyentione, stabilita fuit, Et. quoniam profani sodes. b foliifti Beneficiorum distratores- Hon IgDO* i, «a exor rant; quod si hujufmodi improba padta Da: dicun sc taric Apostolice nostre Ministris; aut Noferien. bis innotefcerent; nunquam resignationes hujuffinodi a Datario; vel Prodatario Nostro; vel. a Nobis; Alüfque Romanis Pontificibus pro tempore existentibus admitterentur; ut circumspectam eorumdem Datarie Apostolice Officialium, & Nostram, aliorumque Pontificum vigilantiam fallerent, callida malorum hominum improbitas. hanc perditionis viam; & rationem excogitavit; Arcano, & clandestino pacto inter Resignantem, & Resignatarium, ad pensionem cassandam, & extinguendam; conventa pecuniae quantitate; edque quandoque etiam deposita apud publicum i mercatorem s fcü mensam argentariam, unitim; ac simul expediri curant Bullam resignationis Beneficii; & | alteram Pensionis reservatae super eodem Beneficio favore Resignantis; 1ta tamen; ut prope eodem, vel non multo post tem- - pore, quo Supplicationi pro reservatione. Pensionis solita Data apponitur, alia Supplicatio subscribatur, ífeü ígnetur pro «assatione 5. atque iecdhdin ejufdem Pensionis per anticipatas; feüanticipandas solutiones. faciendá» mulie mentione Ee 1741. facta de precedenti abominanda conventione, & simoniacam labem redolente pado, quo Beneficii resignatio 1n occultam ipsius Beneficii venditionem execrabili transformatione commutatur. Mia de — ff. 2. Cumautem hujus generis pateeqéit 5 improba, reprobata, damnata sint; & grati hujufmodi cassationis; feà extütin&ionis Pensionis, tanquam subreptitiz, & dolofa calliditate obtentz, & que, rei veritate & totius negocii serie expressa; nunquam a Sede Apostolica concefl fuif-: fent, nulle, irritz, ac inanes sint, & in maximum animarum cas fraudulenter impetrantium damnum, ac detrimentum rendant, Gk praterea. fcandalo simplicibus, & bonis abominationi; & pluribus zterno exitio finr: Siquidem gratiarum hujufmodi impetratores, qui Ecclesiastica Beneficia tali infami mercatu negotiantur potis;, quàm resignant non solàm graviffimo peccato; quod pra oculis habere deberent; animas suas illaqueant; sed infuper palàm apud omnes in populo non sine infamia Ecclesiastici ordinis, exfecrantur; & contemnuntur; Etsi pro alis Beneficiis obtinendis ad Datariam Apostolicam accedere ausi fuerint, tanquam Beneficiorum Venditores malé audiunt; & publicé redarguuntur; cum sta tim ipsis ab eorum competitoribus opponatur Resignatio facta, cum cassadone Pensionis per anticipatas feü. anticipandas solutiones; hoc est, indigna Bencficii jam antca obtenti negotiatio; & clandefina sub ambagibus, & fraudulentis conventionibus detestanda venditio. pue e — f. 3. — Nos igitur hoc execrabile ma-- tionis Pen- ! x. NN foni coe; llf 9. quo non leve Ecclesiastico Ordini Re: . .- c AER * iu. I:

2 me dedecus; e infame nota inuritur, prout dignità necessità e pastorale munus postulat, annullatur. Meer ued coercere in futurum volentes, e longe a Santuario Dei profanam hujusmodi abominatione removere Motu proprio, ac certa scientia, e matura deliberatione Nostris, deque Apostolice potestatis plenitudine statuimus, e declaramus, omnia hujusmodi paca, e conventiones pro cassatione, se abolitione Pensionum per anticipatas; vel anticipandas solutiones contemporaneé ad Resignationes Beneficiorum, cum reservatione Pensionis, per quascunque personas quavis dignitate, honore, ac praeminentia insignitas Inita, tanquam à Sacris Canonibus, e Apostolicis Constitutionibus improbata, e simoniaca labe redolentia, nulla, cassa, ac irrita esse; e omnes cassationes; abolitiones, e exundiones Pensionum hujusmodi; quas in posterum intra sex menses; à die captae possessionis Beneficii per Resignatarium computandos fieri contigerit; etiam si nullum praecedente Beneficio pactum intervenisse inter partes probari possit. E cassatio praedicta secuta sit vigore Supplicationis manu nostra vel Romani Pontificis pro tempore signatae; quam nullatenus, tanquam per subreptione, e fraudes obtentas, neque in judicio; neque extra, ad ullum effectum eis suffragari volumus, irritas; nullas;, e inanes esse; ac omnibus viribus, ac effectu vacuas; e quatenus opus sit) motu, scientia e deliberatione simili, deque Apostolicae potestatis plenitudine, tenore praesentium damnamus, revocamus; annullamus; cassamus e abolemus e insuper tam Resignantem, quam Resignatarium ab omni Jure Beneficii decidisse, e tam Resignans, quam Resignatarius Benef. eosque ipso facto, absque alia declaratione ipso facto, e ne vel Judicis sententia; privatos; e ab istabisa; alia obtinenda inhabiles esse, ac fore; e qeu, à quocumque Beneficium hujusmodi, tanquam de jure, e de facto vacans; impetrapewic peri potle; e praterea Resignantem ad reveio dt: stitiendas pecunias pro cassatione Pensionis hujusmodi indebite e simoniace perceptas, quae arbitrio Ordinarii erunt piis locis applicandae. vel pauperibus personis distribuendae, sub peccato gravi teneri. e Ecclesiasticis remediis, ac poenis, si renuat, ipso jure, absque alia sententia; e declaratione; cogi posse motu, scientia, e potestate pari decernimus; e declaramus. Etquoniam multa malitia hominum est in terra, ut omnis aditus fraudcer exigendi Pendibus, e dolis quos perversa nonnullorum calliditas e in exitium sui ingenii intra sex menses à Cà Ía excogitare consuevit; quoad fieri possit, Pour. A. I. teft, intercludatur; volumus, praecipimus, e declaratus, sub hac Nostra voluntate; constitutione; e dispositione comprehendi omnes; e singulas cessiones, sci translationes in Ipsum Resignatarium, aut in aliam personam, commodi, sei utilitatis percipiendi fructus pensionum hujusmodi, necnon alias quascunque. cessiones, translationes, resignationes, extinctiones, abolitiones, quovis modo, titulo; nomine; colore, e auctoritate, per anticipatas solutiones sei repraesentatae pecunia factas intra dictum tempus sex mensium; e etiam ultra id temporis spatium, dummodo reprobum illud, e detestabile pactum praecessisse consuerit, duüleh-. ff. §. Mandamus praterea e jubemus, easdem praesentes literas perpetuo firmas, validas, e efficaces existere I fore, e nullo unquam tempore sub quovis colore, e pretextu, etiam defeus nostrae intentionis, impugnari posse: Sicque, e non aliàs; in praemissis omnibus, e singulis, per quoscunque Judices Ordinarios, e Delegatos, etiam Causarum Palatii Apostolici Auditores, ac praedicti S. R. E. Cardinales, etiam de Latere à Legatos, e Sedis Apostolice praefatae Nuncios; aliofque quoslibet quacumque preeminentia, e potestate fungentes, e functuros, sublata eis, e eorum cuilibet quavis aliter judicandi; e interpretandi facultate; e auctoritate, judicari, e definiri debere; ac irritum, e inane; si secus super his à quoquam quavis auctoritate scienter,. vel ignoranter contigerit rh. attentari: Non obstantibus Resignantium, sed Cedentium voluntatibus, conditionibus, fervationes Mispbus, protestationibus, e clausulis in tionibus adàs. Ipfifmet resignationibus, e cessionibus P loBIbUs, E fíeu Procuratorum constitutionibus. e Mandatis, ac aliàs, etiam ad praesevationem suorum jurium, e significationem, quod non aliter, nec alio modo resignant, seu cedunt, appofitis, e quacumque verborum vi, formula, e multiplicatone, e amplitudine expressis; necnon quibusvis indultis, privilegiis, e gratiis Apostolicis tam generalibus, quam particularibus; quantumvis speciali mentione, e Bourrantvue. ANNO nota dignis, quibuscunque Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, e aliis superioribus, e inferioribus Ecclesiarum Praelatis, etiam S. R. E. Cardinalibus, ac eorum, e nostris familiaribus continuis commenfalibus, necnon Literarum Apostolicarum Scriptoribus; Abbreviatoribus; caeterisque Romanae Curiae Officialibus concessis e confirmatis, caterisque contrariis quibuscunque. f.6. Costerum, ut facilis praesentes Literae omnibus innotescant, e nemo UM praetextu illarum ignorantiae excusari possit, Jubemus, easdem ad valvas Ecclesiae Lateranensis, e Principis Apostolorum, necnon Cancellariae Apostolice, Curiae generalis in Monte Citatorio, ac in Acie Campi Flore de Urbe, aliifque locis solitis; e consuetis; ut moris est, publicari eorumque exempla affigi: Volumusque eas sic publicatas; omnes; e singulos perindé afficere; e obligare ac si illis ipsis fuissent singulariter intimatae. Exemplis quoque predictis etiam impreseras fis, manuque Notarii publici; e sigillo sess. Praelati Ecclesiastici, vel ejus Curiae obfignatis, eamdem prorsus fidem adhiberi, quae ipsis praesentibus adhiberetur, si forent exhibitae, vel ostensae. f.7. Nulli ergo omnino hominum saei liceat, hanc paginam Nostri decreti constitutiones declarationis; annullationis, infirmationis; prohibitionis, interdicti; ac voluntatis infringere;. vel ei ausu temerario contraire; si quis autem hoc attentare praesumpserit, indignationem: Omnipotentis Dei, ae Beatorum Petri, e Pauli Apostolorum ejus se noverit incurfurum. Datum Romae apud San-

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