In conferendis praecipuis

1 of spoils pertaining in any way to the Reverend Apostolic Chamber of Canterbury. Sixtus, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to our beloved son Master Bartholomaeus Caesius, clerk of Rome, doctor of both laws, general treasurer of the Apostolic Chamber, and our chaplain and familiar, greeting and apostolic blessing.

2 The office of treasurer is clearly most ancient, from the reading of the bull of Eugene IV, Inter edera, vol. v, p. 32. And Callistus III pronounced the treasurer a true familiar of the Pope in const. 1, Quae laudabili, ibid., p. 116. And concerning the said office various Pontiffs have issued constitutions, which I have deliberately omitted (apart from those indicated here and in the apostils) as less necessary, especially since this bull contains everything fully. But concerning the criminal chanceries of the Ecclesiastical State, see the authority of the treasurer and the jurisdiction in the chancellors, in const. xv of Paul IV, Romanus, vol. vi, p. 518, and const. xcvi of Pius IV, Superna, vol. vii, p. 285. By the term spoils are understood goods of ecclesiastical persons disposed of without licence of the Apostolic See according to const. xxxviii of Paul III, Roman Pontiff, vol. vi, p. 317, and const. lx, Romanus Pontifex, ibid., p. 382, and of Pius IV const. ix, Grave nobis, vol. vii, p. 27, and goods acquired through illicit dealing, according to const. xxiii, Decens esse, ibid., p. 78, as well as goods of regulars dying outside the cloister, according to const. lxiv of Gregory XIII, Officii nostri, vol. viii, p. 162, and of clerics dying outside residence, according to const. cviii of Pius IV, In suprema, vol. vii, p. 332, fruits of benefices in Italy reserved or assigned to the Apostolic See, while vacant, according to const. xli, Cupientes malittiis, ibid., p. 127; goods of those dying outside residence and unexacted fruits of benefices, according to const. vii of Julius III, Cum sicut, vol. vi, p. 417. Or before the expedition of apostolic letters or otherwise badly received, as here.

3 of the principal offices of the Roman Curia and Apostolic Chamber, it is our chief concern that, in accordance with the apostolic service committed to us from above, we provide opportunely for the healthful direction, security and preservation of the apostolic treasury, and that its administration be entrusted to such persons whose work, zeal, industry and faithfulness will providently and diligently preserve and increase the goods, property and rights of the said Chamber.

4 § 1. Since therefore the office of general treasurer of the same Chamber, which our beloved son Guido, deacon cardinal of Saints Cosmas and Damian, called Pepolus, held at the time of his assumption by us to the honour of the cardinalate, has become vacant and is now vacant because we have decreed that the said office be vacated by such assumption.

5 § 2. We, directing the gaze of our consideration to your noble birth and outstanding learning, as well as your zeal for faith and justice, integrity and singular probity, and the other virtues by which you, who are an apostolic notary of the number of participants, and a clerk of the aforesaid Chamber, and referendary in both our signatures, and our domestic prelate, and who derive your origin from the noble house of the Caesii, from which very many cardinals, bishops, prelates and other distinguished persons of the holy Roman Church have hitherto come forth and continue to come forth, are known to shine forth, and firmly hoping that those things which we shall deem fit to commit to you, you will execute with the greatest prudence and exact diligence; and that, with the right hand of the Lord assisting you propitiously, you will be able to exercise the said office laudably, we deem it worthy, 1

6 The office of treasurer is vacant.

7 The praiseworthy qualities of the family are recounted, and the office of treasurer and collector of the spoils, fruits and revenues of benefices of churches and monasteries throughout all Italy, and of goods in the City and the whole Ecclesiastical State falling vacant, and other things annexed to it with the rights, emoluments and favors granted to predecessor treasurers or collectors, is conferred upon the person of Bartholomew Caesius, a Roman. Rather, we deem it a duty that we should honor your person, so devoted to us and the Apostolic See, with fitting honors and favors. You therefore, from whatever excommunication, suspension and interdict and other ecclesiastical sentences, censures and penalties, whether by law or by man, imposed for any occasion or cause, if you are bound by them in any way whatsoever, for the purpose of obtaining the present effect alone, we absolve by this present document and declare absolved, of our own motion, not at the instance of your petition or that of another on your behalf presented to us concerning this, but from mere liberality and from our certain knowledge, and from the fullness of apostolic power, the said office, through the aforesaid assumption or in any other manner whatsoever, which we wish to be held as expressly stated, or falling vacant from the person of any other whomsoever, together with the office of collector also of the general spoils, fruits and revenues of all benefices whatsoever of the Church, as well as of churches and monasteries throughout all Italy, and of goods in the City and the whole Ecclesiastical State falling vacant, and other things annexed to it, as well as all and singular the honors, privileges thereof, and also from the dismemberment and separation (of five thousand scudi annually of money from the fruits of the said office of treasurer by us recently, for certain causes moving our mind, applied to the Treasury of the Treasurer erected by us, as is more fully contained in our letters made thereupon, remaining), the customary rights, regalia and emoluments, and the faculties, jurisdictions, exemptions, immunities, preeminences, precedences, prerogatives, favors, indults and graces, both to the same Guido and to our beloved son Benedict, deacon of St. Mary in Cosmedin, called Justinian, cardinals, while constituted in minor orders, held this office of treasurer, and to all others before them, general treasurers and collectors, by whomsoever our Roman Pontiff predecessors and we and the aforesaid See, in general or in particular and otherwise in any manner whatsoever, granted, confirmed, extended and renewed, and otherwise pertaining to the offices of general treasurer and collector of this kind, by right, foundation, privilege, use, custom or any other manner and title whatsoever, and all other things whatsoever by which the aforesaid cardinals Benedict and Guido, while holding this office of treasurer, and any others whatsoever their predecessors in these offices, both in ancient and modern times, used, possessed and enjoyed, and were able to use, possess and enjoy, or even ought to have, whether by apostolic letters or patents, or by writings or camera books, or any other public or private documents, making faith however; all which things and singular, their tenors we wish to be held as expressed in the present document and inserted word for word, by this present document, by apostolic authority we confirm, approve and renew, and to you anew we grant, so that you may freely and lawfully use, possess and enjoy all and singular of them, in all things and through all things, and equally and without any difference whatsoever, just as if by the present document they had been specially and expressly granted, by the same authority we grant and assign to you. And you we now receive and admit to the offices of treasurer and collector of this kind and to their free exercise thereof, and in place of the said cardinal Guido, as far as these offices are concerned, we substitute and subrogate you, and constitute and depute you our and the See's and the Camera's general treasurer; and through the beloved sons of the same Roman Church, the camerlengo,

8 And in the signature of grace.

9 In congregations dealing with matters of interest to the Camera.

10 Faculty is granted to the agent with the Pope concerning the affairs of the Camera.

11 Pension, house and sustenance for the family are assigned.

12 SIXTUS and the presidents of the aforesaid Camera, clerics and others, to whom it pertains and shall pertain, both in the same Camera and elsewhere, we order to receive and admit you, and to respond fully to you concerning the rights, regalia, local dues, taxes, revenues, perquisites and emoluments whatsoever, pertaining in any manner to the offices of treasurer and collector of this kind (the said five thousand scudi, as aforesaid, being dismembered, remaining for the same Camera).

13 § 3. And that in the same Camera and in other camerial acts and in whatsoever other places, in the customary place after the Vice-Chamberlain immediately, but in our chapel and in whatsoever sessions, processions, journeys on horseback and other acts, both public and private, to be done in the sight and presence of ourself and of the Roman Pontiff existing for the time being, or even in his absence, you may sit and proceed before all bishops, archbishops, primates and patriarchs, immediately however after the auditor of cases of the Curia of the said Camera.

14 § 4. And in the signature of ourself and of the Roman Pontiff existing for the time being, to intervene and assist continually.

15 § 5. And in all and whatsoever chambers and congregations, to be called and to be present and to intervene concerning the said Camera, whether generally or particularly.

16 § 6. Moreover, the chapters and conventions of leases and rights of the said Camera, and the receipts concerning the concession of those and other rights to be recorded in the said Camera, the style observed in the same Camera being preserved, you may and ought to bring to us by yourself, by the authority and tenor aforesaid, we grant.

17 § 7. Moreover, two hundred shields for the pension of a house, and daily sustenance to be provided by the general treasurers, for themselves and eight of their household members and two horses.

18 § 8. And all and singular rights, perquisites, revenues, salaries, regalia of spoils, even with diverse chapters and secular clerics heretofore composed with the said Camera and hereafter to be composed.

19 § 9. And of vacant honors, as well as of revenues and revenues, letters not expedited, or otherwise badly and indebitably and against the form of the constitution of blessed memory of Pope Boniface the Eighth, and Julius the Second, Third, and of all other whatsoever Roman Pontiffs our predecessors, received.

20 § 10. And also of illicit negotiation by whatsoever persons, exercising whatsoever authority, now and for the time being done, and of other rights and fruits to be declared below, tithes, taxes and also emoluments, ordinary and extraordinary, from whatsoever source and in whatsoever manner arising, which by the Treasurer and collector of spoils and fruits and honors pertaining to the same Camera existing for the time being, to be exacted and levied in whatsoever manner and under whatsoever title or cause have been accustomed, or even could have been and ought to have been.

21 § 11. Excepting however those things which by now and for the time being by our and the aforesaid See's nuncio in the kingdom of Naples, both on this side and beyond the Strait, have been accustomed to be received and collected, unless it should happen that a composition or termination of the case be made in the Curia, in which case a tithe is owed to you; as well as the revenues of four chancellors of annals constituted and assigned by Pope Gregory the Thirteenth of pious memory, even our predecessor, to whatsoever sum 1

22 Of vacant honors and revenues, not expedited by letters, or otherwise badly received.

23 Of illicit negotiations.

24 Excepted are the revenues accustomed to be received by the nuncio of the kingdom of Naples, and the four chancellors of annals assigned to Gregory the Thirteenth.

25 you may and are able to obtain, exact and levy and really and with effect receive.

26 § 12. And as much in the City and its district in the temporal dominion of the same Roman Church, as throughout all Italy, all goods and whatsoever goods, movable and immovable and semovable, as well as spoils and other things and goods howsoever named.

27 § 13. Moreover, fruits, revenues and proceeds of the tables of abbatial, episcopal, archiepiscopal, patriarchal, and other even parochial churches and monasteries and of whatsoever benefices, howsoever and in whatsoever manner qualified, from whatsoever title, even infected, or otherwise badly and indebitably received.

28 § 14. Moreover, goods of those dying without heirs, or otherwise in the aforesaid curia or outside it everywhere howsoever vacant.

29 § 15. And concerning which against the constitutions of Pope Pius of blessed memory the Fifth, likewise our predecessor, against illegitimate even, it has been disposed or already has been disposed.

30 or from the cause of illicit negotiation of acquisition or otherwise badly acquired.

31 § 16. Or from the cause of illicit negotiation of acquisition or otherwise badly acquired.

32 § 17. And which from apostates or other religious living outside the cloister, at the time of their death are held and possessed, and which through the death of the same apostates and other regulars existing outside the cloisters of their monasteries, and otherwise against the form of the letters of the said Gregory our predecessor issued thereupon.

33 and which through the death of the same apostates and other regulars existing outside the cloisters of their monasteries, and otherwise against the form of the letters of the said Gregory our predecessor issued thereupon.

34 § 18. And also those buildings acquired and places which have been built, repaired and restored from the fruits, revenues and proceeds of ecclesiastical benefices, or which have come about in any way from the fruits, revenues and proceeds of ecclesiastical benefices through the death of any ecclesiastical persons, ecclesiastical benefices, even simple ones, concerning which, however, from the fruits of such simple benefices, either by apostolic privilege or by legitimately prescribed custom, no disposition shall have been made, both in title and in administration, held by secular persons and of any of the regular Orders, shining forth with any, even pontifical, dignity, dying in any part of Italy for the time being.

35 § 19. And also of any persons not residing,

36 holding benefices requiring personal residence, remaining outside that same residence and dying anywhere, even in the said Curia, even if they shall have been in gold, silver, gems and other precious things, of whatever kind, quality and species.

37 § 20. And also the fruits, revenues and proceeds of the menses, churches and benefices of the said Camera, as well as of benefices even in dioceses which have made an agreement with the said Camera, reserved or assigned to the aforesaid See from any cause; from the day of vacancy until the day of the appointment or provision and obtaining possession of them, or of the commenda to be made of them, which all fruits, revenues and proceeds we will and decree to belong and pertain to us and the said Camera, and we apply and appropriate them to the same Camera.

38 § 21. And also all and whatever goods left behind and whatever such fruits, revenues and proceeds badly received, of whatever quality and quantity they shall have been, you are able and have power to perceive, exact and recover.

39 § 22. And also both from the office of the Curia 1 and from the office in the aforesaid matters and against those who have undertaken them, and Officials are to be compelled to render an account; 2

40 Witnesses are to be examined and bound;

41 Occupiers of spoils are to be coerced;

42 And by your discretion selling Delinquents in the aforesaid matters are to be punished.

43 SIXTUS your authority, or the aforesaid Camera, and those adhering to it, and also at the sole instance of those denouncing or instigating, to inquire and investigate in all ways and manners, both concerning those matters and any other spoils whatsoever, which have hitherto remained from goods left behind and fruits of this kind through the death of similar persons, or otherwise, as aforesaid, or have remained in any way, and are unjustly usurped and happen to be usurped under any pretext, to collect, perceive and exact in our name and that of the said Camera, even with facility, for easier inquiry, any persons whatsoever, of whatever dignity, status, degree, order and pre-eminence they shall be, even exempted.

44 § 23. And also past and for the time being existing collectors, and subcollectors or officials, before you or another or others to be appointed or to be appointed by you, to render an account and reckoning of what has been administered, exacted and received by them.

45 § 24. And those whose testimony you shall know to be necessary, to submit themselves to examination.

46 § 25. And the occupiers and detainers of spoils and fruits, revenues and proceeds and honours of this kind to restore and release such spoils, fruits, revenues and proceeds.

47 § 26. And in order to effect the selling, auctioning, delivering, disposing and alienating by your discretion in virtue of these faculties, as shall seem good to you, and even without any auction or proclamation, and without the intervention and instance of another official, even the commissioner of the aforesaid Camera for the time being, converting them into money, to consign and pay them.

48 § 27. And those who have in any way offended in the aforesaid matters or concerning them, even to appear personally before you, or before those to be appointed or to be appointed by you in this matter, under confiscation of goods and privation of benefices, and unfitness to obtain them and others in the future, and also pecuniary penalties, as shall seem good to you, and finally excommunication, and other ecclesiastical sentences, censures and penalties, to be inflicted, moderated and applied at your discretion, to be warned, cited and compelled, and also to be committed to prisons, and as often as shall seem good to you to be released, declaring any contradictors whatsoever and rebels and contumacious persons to have incurred the aforesaid penalties and censures, and even to aggravate them repeatedly, and to invoke the aid of the secular arm.

49 § 27. And those who in the aforesaid matters or concerning them in any way whatsoever shall have offended, even to be personally brought before you, or to be summoned or appointed by you for this purpose, under confiscation of goods and deprivation of benefices, and unfitness to obtain those and others in the future, and also pecuniary penalties, which shall seem good to you, and finally excommunication, and other ecclesiastical sentences, censures and penalties, to be inflicted, moderated and applied at your discretion, to be warned, cited and compelled, and also to be committed to prisons, and to be released as often as shall seem good to you, declaring any contradictors whatsoever and rebels and contumacious persons to have incurred the aforesaid penalties and censures, and also to aggravate them repeatedly, and to invoke the aid of the secular arm.

50 § 28. And concerning the same spoils, fruits of God and of the Church, revenues and proceeds and goods, to settle and make agreements as many times as it shall seem good to you, with any persons whatsoever, holding any authority; and to give quietance to those making payment from the amounts settled and paid by them and from amounts received, to release and free them; and also to absolve and free those returning to them, if they humbly petition it, from censures and penalties, after simple satisfaction beforehand, and also otherwise with reincidence, whether as a precaution or for effect, and to release them from prisons.

51 § 29. And in all the aforesaid matters and their details, even summarily, simply and plainly, and without the noise and form of judgment, with only the truth of the matter examined, even in private, as regards all others whatsoever holding or about to hold any authority, to proceed, to pronounce sentence and to bring to proper conclusion.

52 § 30. And to reassume cases of this kind, even with all their incidents, dependencies and connections, from any other judges whatsoever, ordinary and delegated, holding any authority, even from the auditors of the Apostolic Palace or their lieutenants, by virtue of their ordinary jurisdiction and faculty; and to inhibit those and others, to whom it shall be necessary, even under ecclesiastical and pecuniary ¹ censures and penalties to be imposed at your discretion, to be moderated and applied; and to declare that the same censures and penalties have been incurred as often as shall be necessary, to aggravate and re-aggravate them.

53 § 31. And also a vice-treasurer or vice-auditor or general lieutenant, and one or more auditors in your place, with similar or more limited power, as often as it shall seem expedient to you, and at your complete pleasure, to remove, depute, constitute and make, and to revoke; and also any collectors whatsoever, subcollectors, commissioners, subcommissioners and depositaries and exactors of monies of the said Chamber, or other officials heretofore deputed or to be deputed, to revoke or confirm; and to depute and subdelegate others whatsoever in their place by your letters furnished with your seal, in whatsoever cities, towns, lands and places, as often as it shall seem expedient to you, and to do, manage and execute all other things which in the aforesaid matters and concerning them shall be necessary in any way and opportune, full faculty we grant to you and to those acting in your place by these presents.

54 § 32. And moreover, in order that the exaction and collection of spoils, fruits, revenues and proceeds, and goods and other things of this kind depending therefrom may be carried out more conveniently and suitably, we decree that all and every similar suits, causes and controversies, concerning any fruits whatsoever, revenues and proceeds, spoils, goods and other things aforesaid, and on their account, and other matters which depend in any way on these same suits and causes, or shall have connection with them, now and at any time whatsoever pending in any places, even if a settlement shall have been made in the Chamber concerning spoils or fruits wrongly received and other things aforesaid, and some controversy still be pending between the parties, shall be known by no one other than by you and yours or others deputed by you from time to time over spoils and fruits and things, goods and other matters aforesaid, collectors, subcollectors and other officials and ministers, special or general.

55 § 33. And also causes of appeals from sentences pronounced by your commissioners, or even by the nuncios of the Apostolic See existing from time to time in the kingdoms of Naples, Spain, Portugal or the Algarves, and the duchy of Savoy and the principality of Piedmont, and any other kingdoms and provinces whatsoever, and residing anywhere, as well as by visitors and any others whatsoever, in any manner and in any way and under any name, title or office, and other collectors general deputed and to be deputed from time to time, pertain to you alone and your aforesaid deputies in the second instance or otherwise; and all appeals interposed thereupon and to be interposed, are to be known by you and your aforesaid, and not by another, according to the form of the said Gregory your predecessor; nor can they be known and terminated by another, unless by commission signed by our hand, or by our letters, and with the commissioner general of the said Chamber and notary of spoils and causes of this kind from time to time deputed by you being cited. And that monitions, citations, inhibitions, processes, sentences and mandates, which shall have emanated otherwise than from citation, commission or our letters, as regards the introduction of the same causes and the pendency of the suit or the impediment, retardation or disturbance of your and your ministers' jurisdiction and processes deputed by you for that purpose, shall be of no force or moment.

56 § 34. But neither, unless suitable security has been provided in the form of a deposit, may appeals be made in any way from sentences pronounced by you or your locum tenens or auditor or the aforesaid ministers concerning the aforesaid matters from time to time, except after execution has been carried out, to the effect that appeals from the sentences of nuncios, collectors and others concerning this matter are granted to the treasury only.

57 An appeal to the treasury is granted in a devolutive manner only, not

58 delaying execution. The designations of places of the mountains are admitted by the same only, and the same are sold by him.

59 Care of the interior and construction of the city of Terracina is given to him.

60 Lotteries and all permits, etc., are granted to the treasurer with faculty.

61 devolutive only, nor can their execution be deferred or suspended.

62 § 35. Likewise all resignations and cessions of any places or credits of the mountains of Julius, and of the first and second succursals of Avignon and others, if any such resignations or cessions exist, which the treasurer for the time being has been accustomed to admit, to admit; and those same places or credits, both through resignation or cession of this kind, and through any other dismissal or loss vacant from time to time, to confer and assign according to the form of other faculties granted to your predecessors; and to expedite any patent letters sealed with your seal, and to appoint and revoke the secretary and chaplain and computist or accountant and other officials, as is customary, whenever it shall seem good to you.

63 § 36. Likewise the care and administration of the revenues of our city of Terracina, and of constructing the new city already begun in a more healthful place, according to the form of other faculties granted to your predecessors, we grant and impart to you by the tenor of these presents the license, faculty, power and authority.

64 § 37. Moreover, since some, both prelates and citizens, inhabitants and curial officials of the aforesaid City, and other diverse persons of our entire Ecclesiastical dominion, sometimes burdened by debt and oppressed by other necessities, wishing to sell their own local properties, gold and silver and other goods, both movable and immovable, houses, vineyards and whatever else, for the satisfaction of their debts or for the relief of such necessities and otherwise at their own discretion, for the most part are unable to sell them except at a much lower price than their true value with the greatest detriment to themselves, nor can they find buyers;

65 to you and to any persons whatsoever, of whatever status, rank and condition, that they may, at your discretion, expose their local properties, gold, silver and other goods, both movable and immovable, as above, under lotteries which they call sortes, even with compass and cloths, or otherwise, and to make, publish and conduct such lotteries or drawings, after prior appraisal by experts to be appointed by you, privately or to any others you are able and empowered to do, provided that the aforesaid Camera's share and portion acceptable to you be paid, and a tenth to you and to those who shall have made such lotteries or drawings, to grant any licenses whatsoever; and to them so that they may recover the said share owed to the same Camera and the aforesaid tenth, together with the actual and necessary expenses to be incurred thereupon, in and upon the same lotteries, in such manner as shall seem good to you, granting indulgence and choosing and appointing expert appraisers; and to publish thereupon edicts or proclamations and any patent letters as shall seem good to you, both in the said City and outside it, in whatever cities, towns and places of the Ecclesiastical State subject mediately or immediately to the aforesaid See, and to affix them in public places, and to expedite them under your seal; and likewise to compel all and singular who have hitherto obtained similar licenses to pay the share and portion of this kind acceptable to you, even if otherwise expressed in their licenses, and to revoke such licenses as to those who shall have refused or neglected to pay them.

66 § 38. Likewise all and singular causes, cases, disputes and controversies concerning them, as much on the occasion of the spoliation and vacant honours and goods, and the places and fruits thereof, as to the acts, and also of all such things, you and all and singular of the aforesaid matters, both civil and criminal and mixed, in whatever manner they may arise, and which may happen to arise from time to time between whatsoever persons, furnished with whatsoever authority, dignity and pre-eminence, together with all and singular their incidents, dependencies, emergencies, annexations and connections, and by virtue of the office of your Curia simply, summarily and plainly, with only the truth of the fact examined, to hear, to know, to decide, and with due conclusion, all and whatsoever appeal to suspensive effect only being removed, to determine and finish, and to decree whatsoever executive mandates, to relax, and with whatsoever appeal or recourse or inhibition, under its pretext or otherwise perhaps emanating, notwithstanding, to cause to be executed exclusively to all and singular others; so that no one, even by virtue of a commission, unless signed by our hand or by the Roman Pontiff existing for the time being, may and ought to intermeddle in such causes.

67 § 39. And also whatsoever causes committed to whatsoever other judges, ordinary or delegated, even of our Palace or auditors or locumtenentes, as above, now and for the time being introduced, by your ordinary authority and in virtue of these faculties to reassume, and to inhibit those to whom it shall be necessary.

68 § 40. And as much in the said lots, as also in causes and disputes depending from them in whatsoever manner and however they may depend, even their extraction and the consignment of their prizes, one of the notaries of the aforesaid Camera, as shall seem good to you, at your pleasure, as often as it shall seem and please you, electing and deputizing, and all and singular hitherto deputized or in future to be deputized at your pleasure revoking, and another or others similarly deputizing.

69 § 41. And all and singular letters, writings, instruments and acts, as much concerning the jurisdiction of the lots as of the Camera, to cause to be consigned to you, and those whom it shall be necessary, compelling and forcing, by motion, knowledge and fullness of power similar, full, free and absolute faculty, power and authority we likewise concede and impart.

70 concerning this kind as well as all and singular other matters concerning the jurisdiction of the general treasurer or collector of spoils, to you to cause to be consigned, and those whom it shall be necessary, compelling and forcing, by motion, knowledge and fullness of power similar, full, free and absolute faculty, power and authority we likewise concede and impart.

71 § 42. Likewise that you may more carefully and diligently watch over all the aforesaid matters, and may retain persons who undertake the care of the aforesaid, to you we assign the tenth of all and singular monies or other things from the said lots, under whatsoever mode and form hitherto made and published, as hereafter to be made and published, accruing to the Camera and the aforesaid See, and to you the tenth of this kind by your own authority retaining, even without any other mandate and ordinance, from those to whom it shall be necessary, receiving, exacting, levying, and converting into your uses and utility, faculty we likewise bestow. Moreover to you, that concerning all compositions and incamerations in whatsoever manner by you or collectors and other your officials and ministers, from whatsoever cause in whatsoever manner made and for the time being to be made, even for fruits, revenues and proceeds badly received, and other aforesaid matters in whatsoever places and tribunals made or to be made, and also by the camerarius and his auditors, civilly or criminally, from whatsoever cause to be expedited, the whole tenth part of those, beyond the share touching the same camerarius, you may have and exact, and from those incamerations and compositions to deduct and retain likewise we will and command.

72 § 43. Moreover, that you whatsoever bans, edicts, banishments, letters or ordinances concerning all and singular the aforesaid and their observance may make, issue, publish and denounce, and to their observance whosoever comprehended in them;

73 § 44. Likewise whatsoever debtors of the Camera from any cause or occasion owing to be compelled, to pay or to satisfy by all ways and remedies of law and fact to compel and force:

74 §45. And to use your own seal in all your own acts and writings, which have hitherto been customary under the seal of the treasurer, and the emoluments and revenues arising therefrom, both on the occasion of letters patent of commissioners, depositaries and other officials, and from the concession and assignment of any places, funds and other expeditions whatsoever, to which your seal shall in any manner be affixed, to receive, in the manner of other treasurers your predecessors and according to custom, and not otherwise, we likewise grant you permission by the same authority, freely and lawfully.

75 § 46. Moreover, that whosoever local ordinary, whether of both or one of the signatures of the curia, or referendary of the metropolitan transfer, or of another cathedral or collegiate church canon, or person constituted in ecclesiastical dignity, to be chosen by you, may receive any annual pensions upon any episcopal or archiepiscopal menses whatsoever, or other churches, as well as monasteries, priories, prepositorates, dignities and other ecclesiastical benefices, with cure and without cure, secular and of any regular Orders, with fruits, revenues and proceeds, rights, perquisites and emoluments all, as well as daily distributions, or in their place, fruits, revenues, proceeds, rights, perquisites and emoluments and distributions of this kind, reserved to you by the aforesaid authority and reserved, and to be reserved and to be reserved, even if the payments and exactions of such pensions or fruits are to begin for the successors of the benefices and other churches aforesaid, up to the sum of one thousand ducats of gold in gold of the Camera of new coin, in the said curia or outside it, everywhere, even in churches which you obtain, or your person shall have preceded in them not residing, even at the point of death, by your authority, even after the resignation of this treasurership office, with express consent to cancel, extinguish and annul, and after they shall have been cancelled, extinguished and annulled, other similar annual pensions upon the same fruits, revenues, proceeds, rights, perquisites, emoluments and distributions of this kind, or fruits, revenues, proceeds, rights, perquisites, emoluments and distributions aforesaid, up to the same sum, to one or more persons to be nominated by you, and holding any, any and whatever ecclesiastical benefices, in the same manner, form, conditions, and with the immunities, exemptions, liberties, donations, indults, decrees and others by which they were reserved to you or reserved, even without the consent of those who are to pay, or fruits or those holding churches, monasteries, priories, prepositorates, dignities and other benefices of this kind, by the said authority to reserve, concede, constitute and assign, and also to transfer freely and lawfully; and also reservations or transfers of pensions or fruits of this kind to be made by force of these presents may be valid, and obtain full strength and firmness, in all things and through all things, just as if by us and the Roman Pontiff existing for the time being, with the consent of those who are to pay, or those holding churches, monasteries, priories, dignities and other benefices of this kind, they had been made.

76 § 47. And also to you, so that concerning each and every house, lands, possessions, towns, jurisdictions, castles, territories and other places, even those with ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and concerning moveable goods and other things, both moveable and immoveable and semi-moveable, of whatever quality, value, species, price, even notable and most notable, and condition existing, as well as monies, rights and actions belonging to you, both by reason of whatever things, even patriarchal and cathedral and metropolitan churches and monasteries, even consistorial, priories, prepositorships, dignities and other ecclesiastical benefices of whatever kind, with cure and without cure, secular and of whatever regular Orders, even military orders, which from whatever apostolic concessions and dispensations you hold and will hold in the future in title, in commendam, in administration or otherwise in any manner whatsoever, and by reason of the fruits, revenues and proceeds of ecclesiastical tables of whatever patriarchal, archiepiscopal, episcopal and monastic tables, priories, dignities and other benefices, as aforesaid, qualified, and of annual pensions, upon similar fruits, revenues and proceeds, and reserved and assigned in the form aforesaid, and to be reserved, which you receive and will receive in the future; as well as the emoluments of the treasurership and of other offices of the same Curia whatsoever and of the montes, as well as of legations and otherwise in whatever manner, way, form and occasion belonging and pertaining to you; and also concerning the said fruits, revenues and proceeds and pensions, and in whatever manner and from wherever lawfully acquired and to be acquired, and otherwise in whatever manner, even from offices which you have exercised or shall happen to exercise, and otherwise from any occasion or cause or consideration coming to you and to come to you in the future, even if they consist in counted money, jewels, gems and other precious things and otherwise in whatever manner now and for the time being, even if they were from your chapel, its ornaments, vessels and finally all its sacred furnishings, both in the said Curia and outside, existing everywhere, of all which qualities and true annual values, even if such things were not included under the general appellation of goods or furnishings, but required special terms, present, as if they were specifically and individually expressed and denoted, we wish to be held as sufficiently expressed and narrated; and also concerning the said proceeds and pensions due and to be due, and also not yet received and collected, even if the time of their payment has not yet arrived, for that portion which will be due to you up to whatever and however great and notable and most notable and unthought-of sum, both for the decent and honest expenses of your funeral, and also for the remuneration of those who served you while living, even beyond the merit of service, and in your blood relatives and relations by marriage, and also of whatever other persons, even strangers, as well as convents, universities, colleges and others, even non-pious, places, provided they are not illegitimate, or otherwise in whatever manner incapable, and as regards your aforesaid chapel, provided it be for the favour and use of churches, and otherwise for your arbitration and will absolutely to make a will, and by testament, codicils, trusts, substitutions, legacies, donations, both between the living and on account of death and in whatever other manner and ways, even with the omission of whatever solemnities, even substantial ones, and forms, both by law and through our and whatever other Roman Pontiffs' constitutions and ordinances, as well as statutes and customs of the city, state, place and province, where it shall happen that this be done, or you remaining in the same will die, both by word and by Apostolic Letters whatsoever, concerning both grace and justice, even in the Chancery, Chamber or Curia office, for itself and for the vice-treasurer or lieutenant and two familiars gratis, even after the dismissal of the treasurership office.

77 writing, even less solemn and without any insinuation or subscription of witnesses, or even before two or three witnesses only, or even by a note alone subscribed by your hand, and otherwise in all things and in every respect, as it shall seem good to you in whatever manner, and in the said Curia and outside it and everywhere, and in the article of death, and no mention being made of the present or of other similar faculties granted to you for the time being, which we decree shall in no way be prejudiced by these presents; or that in virtue of those you wish and intend to make a will and dispose, once and again and repeatedly to dispose, establish and ordain freely and lawfully you may, by the aforesaid authority, by the tenor of these same presents, we grant and indulge.

78 § 48. Moreover, that all and singular apostolic letters, under lead and also in the form of a brief, both present and otherwise concerning any whatsoever graces, indults, concessions, faculties, concerning both grace and justice, obtained by you and the vice-treasurer or your lieutenant and two familiars to be nominated by you, from us and our successors or the aforesaid See for the time being, or even granted by similar motion, in all the offices of the Chancery, Camera and Court aforesaid, as well as in lead and register, and the Apostolic Secretariat, and elsewhere anywhere, shall be expedited freely and without any payment whatsoever of taxes, annates, commons, minutiae, services, localia or any other rights or regalia; and the tax-writer shall subscribe the tax of the aforesaid letters, with subscription freely for the person of the treasurer and the others aforesaid; and both he himself and other writers, abbreviators, solicitors of the aforesaid letters, archivists, cubicularies and apostolic shield-bearers, portionaries and presidents of the Ripa, and soldiers of Sts. Peter and Paul, chancellors, secretaries, apostolic protonotaries and summists, as well as masters and lead collectors and lead-workers, registrars and vice-chancellors, and whosoever other officials of the aforesaid Court, and those presiding over the expedition of letters of this kind for the time being, and their ministers, even participating in annates, commons, localia, minutiae, services, regalia and other rights of this kind, the same letters concerning the person of the said treasurer and his vice-treasurer and lieutenant and two familiars of his aforesaid, even after dismissal from the office of treasurer, so that it shall suffice for you once to have been treasurer, for the purpose of all and singular the aforesaid, to you and the aforesaid yours, under the penalties of excommunication latae sententiae and suspension and privation of their offices and fruits and emoluments of the same, to be incurred by those to whom it pertains, and who shall be unwilling to subscribe or grant and expedite these freely, by that very fact incurring them, without any further mandate of us and our successors and the aforesaid See, altogether freely and without any other payment and exaction of the aforesaid taxes, annates, commons, localia, minutiae, services and others, in all things and through all things, up to the lead and register of the same and their final expedition and release inclusive, all contradiction ceasing, shall be expedited, subscribed and released and permitted to be made, and they are bound, even if it be expressly provided in their offices and concessions that they are not bound to this, and that their offices were granted to them by title onerous, we will and command, etc.

79 § 49. And the present letters in all things and clauses hereof ought to avail in all respects, and those and the things contained in them whatsoever shall at no time be noted, impugned, invalidated or reduced to the terms of law, or recalled into law or controversy, or any remedy of law or fact or grace be obtained against them, nor shall they be comprehended under any revocations, suspensions, limitations and other contrary dispositions of similar or dissimilar graces; but always excepted from those, and as often as those shall emanate, so often shall they be restored to their pristine state and that in which they were before those emanated, reposited and fully reintegrated, and newly granted, even under whatsoever date to be chosen by you, and shall always be valid and efficacious and be, and have and obtain the force of a valid and efficacious contract between us and the aforesaid See and Camera on the one part and you on the other part rightly and correctly made, initiated and stipulated, and also accepted on both sides, and be inviolably observed, and always remain valid and efficacious.

80 § 50. And thus by whatsoever judges and commissioners, even cardinals of the Holy Roman Church and camerlengo, and presidents of the said Camera and clerics, and auditors of the Apostolic Palace aforesaid, the faculty and authority of judging and interpreting otherwise being taken away from them and from each of them, in whatsoever cause and instance, and everywhere, ought to be judged and decided; and we decree by the authority and tenor of the aforesaid that it shall be null and void if otherwise anything be attempted concerning these by anyone, by whatsoever authority, knowingly or unknowingly.

81 § 51. Wherefore to our venerable brothers in Christ the bishops of Ameria and Tudertum, and to our beloved son the general auditor of causes of the same Chamber of the Apostolic Camera, by apostolic letters we command that they, or any two or one of them, in person or through another or others, solemnly publishing these present letters and all things contained therein, whenever and wherever it shall be necessary, and as often as they shall be required on your behalf, assisting you with the protection of effective defense in the aforesaid matters, shall cause you to enjoy and possess peacefully the approval, confirmation, grant, assignment, reception, admission, substitution, establishment, mandate, individual indults, will, decrees, statute, impartation, remission, condonation, obligation, hypothecation and other aforesaid matters; not permitting you to be molested, disturbed, disquieted or hindered in any way by the camerlengo, presidents and the aforesaid clerics or any others whatsoever, exercising any authority, contrary to the tenor of these presents. Compelling any and all contradictors and rebels through sentences, censures and ecclesiastical penalties, and other appropriate remedies of law and fact, appeal being set aside; observing legitimate processes to be had over these matters, aggravating the said sentences, censures and penalties even repeatedly; invoking also to this end, if it shall be necessary, the aid of the secular arm. Notwithstanding apostolic constitutions and ordinances; and likewise the statutes and customs of churches, monasteries, places and Orders of any kind whatsoever, strengthened by oath, apostolic confirmation or any other firmness; and also privileges, indults and apostolic letters, granted, approved and renewed to those and their superiors and persons, and to the clerics and college of the said Camera, and to any others whatsoever, under whatsoever tenors and forms, and with whatsoever, even derogatory clauses of derogations, and other more efficacious and unusual clauses, irritant and other decrees, even repeatedly granted, approved and renewed; all and singular of which, even if, for their sufficient derogation, special, specific, individual and express mention, and word for word, and not through general clauses importing the same, should have to be made of them and their whole tenors, or any other expression, or some other exquisite form should have to be observed to this end, we, having these tenors as if word for word and the form delivered in them observed, sufficiently expressed in these presents, otherwise remaining in their force, on this occasion only, by the series of these letters, specially and expressly derogate from them, notwithstanding anything to the contrary. Or if to any persons commonly or severally from the same See it has been indulged that they cannot be interdicted, suspended or excommunicated through apostolic letters not making full and express mention, and word for word, of this indult.

82 § 52. We will moreover that to transcripts of these presents, even printed ones, and subscribed by the hand of a public notary and sealed with your seal, the same faith shall be given everywhere in judicial proceedings and outside, as would be given to these presents themselves, if they were exhibited or shown. To no one therefore, etc.

83 Given at Rome at St. Peter's, in the year of the Lord's Incarnation 1590, on the tenth day before the Kalends of February, in the fifth year of our pontificate.

84 Dat. 23 Jan. 1590, pontif. year v.

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1 spoliorum ad Reverendam Canterani Apostolicam quoquo modo spectantium. Slxtns episcopus , servus servorum Dei, Dilecto Alio magistro Bartholomaeo Caesio, clerico Romano , utrìusque iuris doctori, Camene Apostolicae thesaurario generali, ac capellano et familiari nostro, salutem et apostolicam benedictionem.

2 rioopmium in conferendis praecipuisRomanaeCu- 1 Oflìcium thesaurarìi liquet esse antiquissimum, ex lectura bullae xvn Eugenii IV, Inter edera, tom. v, pag. 32. Et thesaurarium veruni Papae familiarem pronunciavit Callistus III in const. i, Quae laudabili, ibidem, pag. 116. Et circa dictum oflìcium varias ediderunt nonnulli Pontiflces constitutiones, quas tamquam minus necessarias (praeter hic et in apostillis indicatas) consulto praeterii, praesertim quod haec bulla piene omnia continet. At circa cancellarias criminales Status Ecclesiastici, vide thesaurarìi auctoritatem., et in cancellarios iurisdictionem, in const. xv Pauli IV, Romanus, tom. vi, pag. 518, et const. xcvi Pii IV, Superna» tom. vii, p. 285. Spoliorum autem appellatone veniunt bona ecclesiasticarum personarum sine licentia Sedis Apostolicae de eis disponentium iuxta constitut. xxxvm Pauli HI, Romani Pontificis, tom. vi, pag. 317, et constitut. lx, Romanus Ponlifex, ibidem, pag. 382, ac Pii IV const. ix, Grave nobis, tom. vii, pag. 27, et acquisita ob illicitam negotiationem, iuxta constitut. xxiii, Decens esse', ibidem, pag. 78, necnon bona regularium extra claustra decedentium, iuxta constitut. lxiv Gregorii XIII, Officii nostri, tom. vili, pag. 162, clericorumque extra resi - dentiammorientium, iuxta const. cvm Pii IV, In suprema, tom. vii, pag. 332, fructus beneficio - rum Italiae, Sedi Apostolicae reservatorum vel affectorum , dum vacant, iuxta const. xli, Cupientes malittis, ibid., pag. 127; bona decedentium extra residentiam fructusque beneficiorum inexacti, iuxta const. vii Iulii III, Cum sicut , tom. vi, pag. 417. Vel ante litterarum apostolicarum expeditionem aut alias male percepti, ut hic.

3 riae et Caincrae Apostolicae oflìciis, illud potissimuni nobis curae est, ut, iuxta commissum nobis desuper apostolicae servitutis munus, salubri directioni, indemnitati et conservationi aerarii apostolici opportune consulatur, utque illius administralio talibus personis committatur, quarum opera, studio, industria ac fide, bona, res et iura praediclae Camerae provide ac diligenter eonserventur et augeanlur.

4 § 1. Cum itaque oflìcium thesaurariae generalis eiusdem Camerae, quod dilectus filiusnoster Guido Sanctorum Cosmse et Damiani diaconus cardinalis Pepolus nuncupatus, tempore assumptionis per nos de persona sua ad cardinalati honorem factae nuper obtinebat, ex eo quod nos ipsum ofìlcium per àssumptionem huiusmodi vacare decrevimus, vacaverit et vacet ad praesens.

5 § 2. Nos, ad generis nobilitatem eximiamque doctrinam, necnon fidei ac iustitiae zelum, integritatem ac singularem probitatem, ceterasque virtutes, quibus tu, qui notarius apostolicus de numero participantium, et Camerae praefatae clericus, et in utraque signatura nostra referendarius, ac praelatus noster domesticus existis, et ex nobili Caesiorum prosapia, ex qua quamplurimi sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinales, episcopi, praelati et aliae egregiae personse de Sede Apostolica benemerentes hactenus prodierunt et in dies prodeunt, originem trahis, clarere dignosceris, nostrae dirigentes considerationis intuitum, et indubie sperantes quod ea, quae Ubi duxerimus commitlenda , summa cum prudentia et exacta diligenza exequeris; quodque, dextera Domini tibi assistente propitia, dictum oflìcium poteris laudabiliter exercere, dignum, 1 Sed omisi ponere has bullas praecedentes, quia hic omnia comprehenduntur - quae in eis continentur.

6 Ofiìciuni the- Baurariatus vacali s.

7 CaeMac f.irniliae laudaljilés qualilates referuntur, el oflìcium thesaurariaeaccoUecloriae spoliorum, ac frucluum el provenluum beneQciorum ecclcsiarum, et monaslerior. in universa llali > al honorum in Urbe, et tolo Slalu Ecclcslaslico vacan tium, aliisque illi annexis curo iuribus et emolumentis ac graliis praedecessoribus lliesaurariis seu collectoriae con— cessis conferilurin personam Bartholom. Caesii Romani 1. quin potius debitum, foro censemus ut personam luam nobis et Apostolicae Sedi admodum devotam condignis honoribus et gratiis prosequamur. Te itaque a quibusvis excommunicationis , suspensionis et interdicti aliisque ecclesiasticis sententiis, censuris et poenis, a iure vel ab bomine, quavis occasione vel causa latis, si quibus quomodolibet innodatus existis ad effectum praesentium dumtaxat consequendum, harum serie absolventesetabsolutum fore censentes, motu proprio, non ad tuam vel alterius prò te nobis super boc oblatae petitionis inslantiam, scd de mera liberali tate et ex certa scientia nostris, deque apostolicae potesfalis plenitudine, dictum officium, per assumptionem praedictam sive alio quovis modo, quem haberi volumus prò expresso, aut ex alterius cuiuscumque persona vacans, cum officio collectoriae ctiam generalis spoliorum ac fructuum et proventuum quorumcumque beneficiorum eeclesiaslicorum , necnon ecclesiarum et monasteriorum in universa Italia, ac bonorum in Urbe et toto Statu Ecclesiastico vacantium, aliisque illi annoxis, necnon omnibus et singulis illius honoribus, privilegiis, necnon ex dismembratione et separatione (quinque millium scutorum annuorum monetae ex fructibus dicli officii thesaurariae per nos nuper, ex certis causisanimum nostrum moventibus,factis, Monti thesaurariae per nos nuper erecto applicatorum, prout in nostris inde confectis litleris plenius continetur, remanentibus ), iuribus, regalibus et emolumentis consuetis, ac facultalibus, iurisdi- < tionibus, cxemplionibus, immunitatibus, prajeminenliis, anlelationibus, praerogalivis, favoribus, indultis et gratiis tam eidem Guidoni, quam dilecto iìlio nostro Benedicto S. Mariae in Cosmedin diacono Iustiniano nuncupato cardinalibus, dum in minoribus constituti, huiusmodi officium thesaurariae obtinerent, quam ceteris omnibus ante eos generalibus thesaurariis et collectoribus per quoscumque Romanos Pontifices praedecessores nostios ac nos et Sedem praedictam, in genere vel in specie ac alias quomodolibet coneessis, confìrmatis, extensis et innovatis, ac alias ad thesaurariae generalis et collectoriae huiusmodi officia, de iure, fundatione, privilegio, usu, consuetudine vel alio quocumque modo et titillo pertinentibus, ceterisque omnibus et singulis quibus Benedictus et Guido cardinales praedicti, dum huiusmodi officium thesaurariae obtinuerunt, et alii quicumque eorum in oflìciis huiusmodi antecessores, tam antiquis quam modernis temporibus, usi, potiti et gavisi fuerunt, ac uti, potivi et gaudere potuerunt seu etiam debuerunt, sive de illis per litteras apostolicas vel patenles, aut scripturas seu libros camerales, vel quaecumque alia publica vel privala documenta, fidem tamen facientia appareat ; quae omnia et singula, illorum tenores praesentibus prò expressis ac de verbo adverbum insertis haberi volumus, harum serie, apostolica auctoritate confirmamus, approbamus et innovamus, tibique de novo concedimus, ita . ut tu illis omnibus et singulis uti, potiri et gaudere libere et licite valeas , in omnibus et per omnia, ac pariformiter et absque ulla prorsus differentia, perinde ac si per praesentes specialiter et expresse concessa fuissent, eadem tibi auctoritale concedimus et assignamus. Teque ad thesaurariae et collectoriae officia huiusmodi illorumque liberum exercitium ex nunc recipimus et admittimus, ac in locum dicti Guidonis cardinalis, quoad officia huiusmodi, substituimus et subrogamus, ac nostrum et Sedis ac Camerae praedictaethesaurarium generalem constituimus et deputamus ; ac per dilectos filios eiusdem Romanae Ecclesiae camerarium ,

8 Et In signa— tura gratiae.

9 In congregallonibusqne de interesse Camerae Iractanlibus.

10 Facullas agenti cum Papa de affìctibus Carneree conceditur.

11 Pensio, ilomus et viclus familiae asslgontur,

12 SIXTUS praefataeque Camerae praesidentes, clericos aliosque, ad quos spectat el spectabit, tam in eadem Camera quam alibi, recipi et admitti, tibique de iuribus, regalibus, iocalibus, taxis, proventibus, obventionibus et emolumenlis quibuscumque, ad thesaurariae et collectoriae officia huiusmodi quomodolibet spectanlibus (dictis quinque millibus scutis, ut prae • fertur, dismembratis, prò eadem Camera remanentibus), integre responderi mandamus.

13 § 3. Tibique quod in eadem Camera aliisque aclibus cameralibus ac quibuscumque aliis locis in loco solito post vicecamerarium immediale, sed in capella nostra et quibuscumque sessionibus, processionibus, equitationibus aliisque aclibus, tam publicis quam privalis, in nostro et prò tempore existentis Romani Pontificis conspectu et praesentia vel etiam absentia faciendis, ante omnes episcopos, archiepiscopos, primates et palriarchas, immediate tamen post auditorem causarum Curiae Camerae huiusmodi, sedere et incedere.

14 § 4. Ac in nostra et prò tempore existentis Romani Pontificis signatura continuo intervenire et assistere.

15 § 5. Ac in omnibus et quibuscumque cameris et congregationibus, interesse Camerae praefatae sive generaliter sive particulariter concernentibus, vocari et adesse ac intervenire.

16 § 6. Necnon capi tuia et conventiones appaltuum et iurium dictae Camerae, ac apochas super illorum et aliorum iurium concessione in dieta Camera consignandas, servato stylo in eadem Camera servari solito, per te ipsum-ad nos deferre possis et debeas, auctoritale et tenore praedictis, indulgemus.

17 § 7. Necnon scuta ducenta prò pensione domus, ac victum quotidianum thesaurariis generalibus, prò ipsis et octo v pp. 167 eorum familiaribus ac duobus equis praestari solita.

18 § 8. Ac omnia et singula iura, obventiones, provenlus, salaria, regalia spoliorum, eliam cum diversiscapituliset cleris saecularibus hactenus cum dieta Camera composilorum et hi posterum componendorum.

19 § 9. Ac honorum vacantium, necnon redituum et proventuum , litleris non expeditis, aut alias male et indebite ac contra formam conslitutionis felicis recordationis Bonifacii Papae odavi, et Iulii secundi, lertii, el aliorum quorumcumque Romanorum Pontificum praedecessorum nostrorum, perceptorum.

20 § 10. Ac etiam illicitae negociationis per quasvis personas, quavis auctoritale fungentes, nuncetpro tempore faclae, et aliorum iurium et frucluum inferius declarandorum, decimas, taxas et etiam emolumenta, ordinaria et exlraordinaria, undecumque et quomodocumque provenientia, quae per prò tempore existentem dictae Camerae Ihesaurarium et collectorem spoliorum ac fructuum et honorum ad eamdem Cameramspeclantium, exigi et levari quomodocumque et quocumque titulo vel causa consueverunl, seu etiam potuerunt el debuerunt.

21 §11. Demptis tamen his, quae per nunc et prò tempore existentem nostrum et Sedispraedictae in regno Neapolitano, tam citra quam ultra Pharum, nuncium hactenus percipi et colligi consueverunl, nisi compositionem aut causae terminationem in Curia fieri contingat, quo casu decima tibi debeatur; necnon proventibus qualuor cancellariis annalarum per piae memoriae Gregorium Papam XIII, edam praedecessorem nostrum, constitutis et assignatis , ad quameumque summam 1 De his spoliis vide in Pii IV const. xxiu , Decens, tom. vii, pag. 78 ubi notavi. Provenlusqiia spolioi'iim.

22 Honorum e- Liam vacantium ac redituum, noi) expedilin lilleris, liu t alias malo perceplorum.

23 Illicitaequo oegotiationesl.

24 Exeipiuntur proventus per noncium regni Neapolis percipi consueios, relquatuorcancellariis annalarum assegnati aGregorioXIN.

25 ascendant, consequi, exigere et levare ac realiter et cum effectu percipere possis et valeas.

26 § 12. Ac tanti in Urbe eiusque distrisin.iiain nactu dominioque temporali eiusdem Rosario" àss"!- manae Ecclesiae, quamtota Italia, omnia fe1"1""" et quaecumque bona, mobilia et immobilia ac semoventia necnon spolia aliasque res et bona quomodolibet nuncupata.

27 § 13. Necnon fructus, reditus et pro- Kiu.iusbene ventus mensarum abbalialium, episeopafìcini nm malo , . . . . . . .... percepii hum, archiepiscopalium, patriarchalium, et aliarum etiam parochialium ecclesiarum et monasteriorum ac quorumeumque benefìciorum, quomodocumque et qualitercumque qualifìcatorum, ex quovis titillo, etiam infecto, aut alias male et indebite perceptos.

28 § 14. Necnon bona sine haeredibus de- Bon,i quoquo cedentium, aut alias in curia praedicta modo Tacnnlia. . , . . ... vel extra eam ubique quomodolibet vacantia.

29 § 15. Et de quibus contra constitutioniogiiimisrenem recolendae memoriae Pii Papae lieta conti a bui- ...... .

30 um cn« pìì v quinti, simuiter praedecessons nostri, ?""ep°gd88o.T' contra illegitimos edilam, disponi contigerit, aut iam dispositum fuerit.

31 § 16. Aut ex causa illicitae negotiam>io acquitionis vel alias male acquisitos.

32 § 17. Et quae ab apostatis aut aliis Reiicu pio extra claustra degentibus religiosis, temreligiosos ex , . . .

33 illustra degenpore eorum obitus detinentur et possila "T^gurii dentur, quaeque per obitum ipsorum xiii,num. h.t aposlatarum et aliorum regularium extra t vili, pag. 102 , claustra suorum monasteriorum existentium, et alias contra formarci litterarum dicti Gregorii praedecessoris desuper edilarum.

34 § 18. Ac etiam illa necnon aedificia Acquisita de et loca, quae ex fructibus, reditibus et fructiba» eccieproventibus ecclesiasticis profecla, aedifi- 8iaslicis.de quir p • bus ìegitime dicata, refecta et restaurata fuerint, seu spo.ltun, non ^.^ ^ ^^ frucl;bus # reditìbuS et proventibus quomodolibet provenerint per obitum quarumeumque personarum ecclesiasticarum, beneficia ecclesiastica, etiam simplicia, de quorum tamen simplicium fructibus, vel ex privilegio apostolico vel ex consuetudine Ìegitime praescripta, dispositum non fuerit, lam intitulum quam administrationem obtinentium, saecularium et quorumvis Ordinum regularium, quavis, etiam pontificali, dignitate fulgentium, in omni Italiae parte prò tempore decedentium.

35 §19. Necnon quarumvis personarum nona non re- , „ . ... . sidentium 1.

36 beneficia personalem residentiam requirentia obtinentium, extra eamdem residentiam acubilibet, etiam in dieta Curia, decedentium remansura, etiamsi in auro, argento, gemmis et aliis pretiosis rebus, cuiuscumque generis, qualitatis et speciei fuerint.

37 S 20. Ac etiam fructus, reditus et „Fructus bene- 3 ; ficiorum reseiproventus mensarum, ecclesiarum et movatorum vei atr, ,.i • , fectorum, prò nastenorum ìnipsiusGamerae ubristaxalempo,.equovatorum, necnon benefìciorum etiam indioe-c,'"u' elp- *• cesibus quae pactum cum dieta Camera iniverunt, ex quacumque causa Sedi praedictae reservatorum seu affectorum; ex die vacationis usque ad diem praefectionis seu provisionis et adeptae possessionis illorum, seu commendae de illis faciendae, quos omnes fructus, reditus et proventus ad nos et dictam Cameram spectare et pertinere volumus et decernimus, eidemque Camerae applicamus et appropriamus.

38 § 21. Necnon omnia et quaecumque omn^'ucl"^'j° bona relieta et quoscumque huiusmodi percepii, fructus, reditus et proventus male perceptos, cuiuscumque qualitatis et quantitatis fuerint, etiam percipere, exigere et recuperare possis et valeas.

39 § 22. Ac etiam tam ex officio Curiae 1 Haec vide in Pii IV ronstit. cvni, torti, vii, p. 33"2. 2 Ad hoc halies etiam in Pii IV. const. ili, tom. vii, pag. 127.

40 Ali. C. «590 Kacuius lliesiiiirttrio ilnlur procedendi e- L i a iì) ex officio in praemissisel r.onlra cuceplos, Officfalesi[ue ad reddendam ratlonem cogendi ;

41 Tesles ad sa ciaminand. a— stringendi;

42 Occupatoiea ipoliorumcoerfendi:

43 lllaque arbitrio suo vendendo Delinquentes in praemissis puniendi.

44 SIXTUS tuae, seu Camera praedictae, illiqueadhserentium, quam etiam ad solam instantiam denunciantium seu instigatorum inquirendi et investigandi omnibus viis et modis, tam super illis quam aliis quibuscumque spoliis, quae hactenus ex bonis relictis et fructibus huiusmodi per similium personarum obitum, aut alias, ut praefertur, seu quomodolibet remanserunt, et indebite quocumque praetextu usurpantur et usurpari contigerit, nostro et dictae Camerae nomine colligere, percipere et exigere, etiam cum facilitate, prò faciliori inquisitione, quascumque personas, cuiuscumque dignitatis, status, gradus, ordinis et praeeminentiae fuerint, etiam exemptas.

45 § 23. Necnon praeteritos et prò tempore existentes colleclores, et subcollectores vel officiales, coram te vel alio seu aliis a te deputando seu deputandis, ad reddendum computum et rationem de administratis, exaclis et receptis ab eisdem.

46 § 24. Illosque quorum testimonio indigere cognoveris, ad se examini subiiciendum.

47 § 25. Et spoliorum ac fructuum , redituum et proventuum ac honorum huiusmodi occupatores et detentores ad spolia, fructus, reditus et proventus huiusmodi restituendum et relaxandum.

48 § 26. Ac Ubi ad effeclum vendendi, subhastandi, deliberandi, distrahendi et alienando arbitrio tuo in vim huiusmodi facultatum, prout tibi visum fuerit, et etiam absque aliqua subhastatione seu incantu, et absque intervenlu et instantia alterius officialis, etiam praedictae Camerae prò tempore existentis commissarii, in pecuniam convertendi, illa consignandum et solvendum.

49 § 27. Eosque qui in praemissis vel circa ea quomodolibet deliquerint, etiam ad personaliter coram le, seu a te depulando vel deputandis huiusmodi, comparendum, sub confiscationis honorum et privationis beneficiorum, inhabilitatisque ad illa et alia in posterum obtinenda, ac etiam pecuniariis, quae tibi videbuntur, ac demum excommunicationis, aliisque ecclesiasticis senlentiis, censuris et poenis, tuo arbitrio infligendis , moderandis et applicandis , monendi, citandi et compellendi, ac etiam carceribus mancipandi, ac quoties tibi videbitur relaxandi, conlradictores quoslibel et rebelles ac contumaces, poenas ac censuras praedictas incurrisse declarandi, illasque etiam saepius aggravandi, auxiliumque brachii saecularis invocandi.

50 § 28. Ac super eisdem spoliis, fructi Deiuporquc bus, reditibus et proventibus ac bonis, comP°"eni" toties quoties tibi videbitur, cum quibusvis personis, quacumque auctoritale fungentibus, componendi et concordandi; ac solvenles de compositis etsolulis per eos ac de receptis quietandi, liberandi; necnon ad eos ! reversos, si id humiliter petierint, a censuris et poenis, praevia satisfactione simpliciler, et eliam alias cum reincidentia, seu ad caulelam seu ad effectum agendi, absolvendi et liberandi, ac a carceribus relaxandi.

51 § 29. Et in praemissis omnibus et sins,immai.jeprogulis, etiam summarie, simpliciter et de cciendi ; plano, ac sine strepilu et figura iudicii, sola facti ventale inspecta, eliam privali ve, quoad alios quoscumque, quavis auctorilate fungentes et funcluros, procedendi, sententiandi fineque debito lerminandi.

52 § 30. Causasque huiusmodi, etiam cum caum sPoii„ omnibus et singulis suis incidentibns, con- ",m eisi;ue an_ nexis et. annexis, a quibuscnmque alns bus indicibili iudicibus , ordinariis et delegatis , quacumque auctorilate fungenti bus, eliam causarum Palalii Apostolici audiloribus seu locatenentibus, vigore suae ordinariae iurìsdiclionis ac facullalis, reassumendi; ac illis aliisque, quibus opus fuerit, eliam sub censuris ecclesiaslicis et peruniariis ¹ reassumendi: poenis tuo arbitrio imponendis, moderandis et applicandis, inhibendi; ipsasque censuras et poenas, quoties opus fuerit, incidisse deelarandi, aggravandi et reaggravandi.

53 § 31. Necnon vicethesaurarium aut vicMiieaaulocumtenenlem generalem, ac unum seu rarium, anditoi !■. > , • •.• , ies,coiiecioipS P»ures auditores loco lui, cum simili aut eie. «p»«»»J' limitata poteslatc, lolies quoties libi expe- H suo aibilno l ' ' r removendì; dire videbitur, et ad omne tuum beneplacitum, depulandi, constiluendi et faciendi, ac revocandi; necnon quoscumque collectoies, subcollectores, commissarios, subcommissarios ac depositarios et exactores pecuniarum eliuriumdictaeCamerae, seu alios officiales hactenus deputatos seudepulandos,revocandiseuconfirmandi; et alios quoscumque illorum loco per tuas lilteras tuo sigillo munitas, in quibuscumque civitalibus, oppidis, terris et locis, depulandi et subdelegandi, tolies quoties tibi videbitur expedi re, ceteraque omnia faciendi, gerendi et exequendi, quae in praemissis et circa e a necessaria fuerint quomodolibet et opportuna, plenam tibi et liberanti per praesentes concedimus facul lalem.