Pastoralis officii nobis

Bolla che istituisce l'Archivio Generale in Roma

Bolla di papa Urbano VIII · 16 novembre 1625

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Istituzione dell'archivio generale in Urbe. Urbano Vescovo, servo dei servi di Dio, a perpetua memoria della cosa.

1 La sollecitudine dell'ufficio pastorale a noi, benché immeritevoli, Prologo. affidato dalla divina disposizione, preme continuamente il nostro cuore e lo muove, affinché dirigiamo l'attenzione della nostra vigilanza non solo a quelle cose che riguardano la salvezza delle anime, ma anche a quelle che sappiamo pertinere all'utilità, alla pace, alla tranquillità e alla perpetua sicurezza dei popoli, soprattutto della nostra cara Urbe e di coloro che sono sottoposti a noi e al dominio temporale della Sede Apostolica, e specialmente a quei danni che, per la mancanza di una diligenza sufficientemente esatta nel conservare tanto le scritture pubbliche quanto le private, fra i nostri sudditi, con grave molestia nostra e loro, e danno delle loro fortune, frequentemente sappiamo che sorgono e si diffondono; provvediamo con qualche opportuno rimedio, e, per il felice progresso di quelle cose che per questo da noi si ordinano, affidiamo la loro cura alla prudenza di uomini eccellenti, affinché per opera e studio di essi siano felicemente governate, e le liti più facilmente terminate, come per il compimento della giustizia e la quiete dei medesimi sudditi vediamo che conviene espedire lietamente nel Signore. § 1. Poiché dunque (dalla molteplicità e diversità dei notai dell'Urbe, e dall'imperizia e negligenza anche di alcuni di essi, e dalla confusione degli strumenti e delle altre scritture, e dalla custodia negligente, molti danni e disagi sono arrecati ai nostri sudditi e ad altri, e il massimo detrimento della fede pubblica è portato ogni giorno, e la medesima è posta in non piccolo pericolo di falsità e frodi, viceversa dalla diligente custodia di quegli stessi strumenti e scritture tutte le falsità e le frodi si evitano, i domini delle cose e i diritti si conservano a ciascuno, e altri non pochi beni si conseguono, cosa che abbiamo sufficientemente esplorato e abbondantemente compreso; e in molti domini e regioni estere, e anche per autorità dei nostri predecessori Romani Pontefici in quasi tutte le città e i luoghi dello Stato nostro Ecclesiastico, archivi pubblici e generali sono stati eretti e istituiti, e nella medesima Urbe nostra alcuni particolari, cioè il Capitolino e della Curia Romana, e forse altri, tuttavia osserviamo che alcuni di essi sono caduti in disuso, altri in molte cose difettano, e per mezzo di essi non si provvede sufficientemente a tali disagi, danni e frodi, e ai loro pericoli; e ricordando dagli annali della storia sacra che la Chiesa Romana ebbe un tempo un archivio pubblico sotto il nome di cartofillacio, e che l'ufficio di cartofillacio fu di grande dignità e autorità presso la medesima Chiesa Romana e la Sede Apostolica; e volendo, per quanto in noi è, provvedere ai predetti inconvenienti) non riteniamo che in nessun altro modo meglio si consulti ai predetti nostri sudditi e a tutti gli altri che per l'erezione di un archivio pubblico e generale nella detta Urbe, al quale gli strumenti pubblici e le altre scritture rogati dai notai della medesima Urbe e dagli altri sottoscritti debbano essere deferiti di volta in volta e in esso conservati, per l'ornamento della medesima Urbe e della Curia Romana, e per la sicura e perpetua conservazione degli strumenti e delle scritture, per la sicurezza dei nostri sudditi e degli altri, e per l'utilità pubblica e privata di tutti; abbiamo decretato di procedere a tale erezione.

2 Incipit.

3 que molestia, fortunarumque suarum mciuj-ì, frequenlcr exoriri et vigere intelliifimus, commodà aliquà ratione provideamus, et, prò felici progressi! eorum, quae propterea a nobis ordinantur, iliorum curam egregiorum virorura prudenliae demandemus, quorum opera et studio feliciter gubernentur, ac lites facilius terminentur, prout prò iustitiae complemento et subditorum eorumdem quiete1 conspicimus in Dominos alubriter expedire. causao insti- § \. Cum itaque (ex multiplicilate et di- "chiv'ium er1n versitate notariorum Urbis, et aliquorum etiam ex eis imperitià et negligendo, ac instrumentorum et aliarum scripturarum confusione, ac incuriosa custodia, plurima damna et incommoda subditis nostris et aliis irrogari, maximum etiam detrimentum fidei publicae in dies inferri, eamdemque non parvo in discrimine falsitatum et fraudimi versari, vicissim vero ex diligenti eorumdem instrumentorum et scripturarum cura falsitates et fraudes omnes evitari, dominia rerum ac iura unicuique conservari, aliaque non modica pervenire bona satis exploratum et abunde perspectum habentes; et in plerisque dominiis et regionibus exteris, ac etiam Romanorum Pontifìcum praedecessorum nostrorum auctoritate fere in omnibus civitatibus et locis Status nostri Ecclesiastici publica et generalia, et in ipsàmet Urbe nostra quaedam particularia, Capitolinum videlicet et Romanae Curiae, et forsan alia, archivia erecta et instituta fuisse, ex eis tamen alia in desuetudinem abiisse, alia in multis deficere, ncque per illa huiusmodi incommodis, damnis et fraudibus, illarumque periculis sufficienter provideri animadvertentes; et ex annalibus sacrae historiae Romanam Ecclesiam olim archivium publicum sub nomine cartophylacii habuissc, et cartophylacii officium magnae dignilatis et auctoiitatis apud eamdem Ro- 1 Edit. Maia, legit quieti (r, t.). »„ C. 1625 manam Ecclesiam et Sedem Apostolicam extitisse, memoria repetentes ; et praemissis, quantum in nobis est, occurrere cupientes) nulla alia ratione satius praediclis nostris subditis et aliis omnibus quam per ereclionem archivii publici et generate in dieta Urbe, ad quod instrumenta publica et aliae scripturae per eiusdem Urbis notarios et alios infrascriptos rogata prò tempore deferri et in eo asservari debeant, consultum iri censeamus; prò earumdem Urbis et Romanae Curiae ornamento , et instrumentorum ac scripturarum tuta et perpetua conservatione, nostrorum subditorum et aliorum securitate, ac publica et privata omnium utilitate, ad ereclionem huiusmodi devenire decrevimus.

4 8 2. Motu igitur proprio, non ad alicuius nobis super hoc oblatae petitionis tuae instantiam, sed ex certa scientia e mera deliberatione nostris, ac de apostolicae potestatis plenitudine, archivium generale, Urbanum nuncupandum, sub protectione e suprema superintendentia dilecti filii Francisci S. Agathae diaconi cardinalis Barberini nuncupati, nostri secundum carnem ex fratre germano nepotis, eius vita durante, e, post illius obitum, unius ex eiusdem sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalium per prò tempore existentem Romanum Pontificem ad id specialiter deputandi *, in dieta Urbe, in loco prope plateam Principis Apostolorum de Urbe nuncupatam per nos designato; e, prò eiusdem archivii generalis bono regimine e administratione, unum conservatoriae eiusdem archivii generalis officium prò uno clerico vel laico utriusque iuris doctore, vitae ac morum probitate e experientia praedito, ac alias sufficiente e idoneo, conservatore archivii generalis Urbani nuncupando, ad nostrum e prò tempore existentis Romani Pontificis nutum ponendo 1°, deputandum e amovendo, cum infrascriptis e aliis omnibus e singulis privilegiis, facultatibus, honoribus, praeeminentiis e oneribus, in capitulis per dilectum filium nostrum Antonium dictae sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae presbyterum cardinalem sancti Honuphrii nuncupatum de mandato nostro subscriptis expressis, e aliis etiam per prò tempore existentem archivii generalis huiusmodi superintendentem cardinalem quandocumque ampliandis, moderandis e declarandis, apostolica auctoritate, tenore praesentium, perpetuo erigimus e instituimus; illique sic erecto e instituto, prò eius dote ac illud prò tempore obtinentis sustentatione, salario e emolumento, summam in particulari chirographo, etiam hodie manu nostra subscripto, ex taxis ac omnibus iuribus, obventionibus, emolumentis e aliis regalibus in dictis capitulis contentis e specificatis designandam, dieta auctoritate etiam perpetuo applicamus e appropriamus, ac ex nunc applicatam e appropriatam fore e esse volumus e declaramus.

5 cui salarium assignat. 8 3. Ita ut liceat eidem conservatori prò tempore existenti, per se, vel alium ad id ab eo deputandum, summam sic applicatam e appropriatam ab iis, ad quos prò tempore spectabit, exigere, recipere e retinere, ac in suos usus e utilitatem convertere, nostra vel Romani Pontificis prò tempore existentis licentia desuper minime requisita.

6 Et privilegia recensita. 8 4. Ac (ut praedictum officium sic erectum e institutum, illludque prò tempore obtinens amplioribus per nos favoribus e gratiis decoretur) quod prò tempore existens conservator dicti archivii noster ac prò tempore existentis Romani Pontificis verus, indubitatus e non fictus familiaris continuus commensalis, aliorumque familiarium e continuorum commensalium numero e consortio adscriptus e aggregato eo ipso existat; e vestes violacei coloris ad instar nostrorum cubiculariorum honoris nuncupatorum gestet, illisque arbitrio suo utatur; ac, in signum verae e indubitatae ac non fictae familiaritatis huiusmodi, singulis diebus ex palatio apostolico panem eiusdem quantitatis e qualitatis, próut dilectis filiis in utraque signatura nostra referendariis dari consuevit, habeat, decernimus, e panem huiusmodi dietim sibi ex dicto palatio dari mandamus.

7 Vili PP. 389 An. G. 1625 del colore simile a quello dei nostri cubiculari detti camerieri d'onore porti, e di essi a suo arbitrio si serva; e, in segno di vera e indubitata e non fittizia familiarità di questo genere, ogni giorno dal palazzo apostolico pane della medesima quantità e qualità, come ai diletti figli in ambedue le nostre segnature ai referendari è solito darsi, abbia, decretiamo, e pane di questo genere quotidianamente a lui dal detto palazzo darsi ordiniamo.

8 § 5. All'archivio generale invece tutti i testamenti, i fedecommessi, gli strumenti, i legati, i codicilli, le donazioni causa di morte e le altre ultime volontà, ricevuti e rogati in qualsiasi modo da qualunque notaio pubblico della Città, anche da coloro che hanno i loro uffici a titolo oneroso da noi e dalla Sede predetta e dalla camera apostolica, nonché dai parroci della medesima Città, tanto nella Città stessa quanto fuori di essa; e inoltre su vendite, risoluzioni e rescissioni di vendite, cessioni, rinunce, transazioni, divisioni, dazioni in soluzione, permute di e su beni e cose immobili fatte, nonché su censi e loro estinzioni, feudi, subfeudi, e su concessioni in enfiteusi, livello, o sotto canone annuo, canone, o altra prestazione, donazioni tra vivi, insinuazioni, doti e patti dotali, addizioni di eredità, ripudiazioni e inventari, emancipazioni, adozioni, arrogazioni, diritti di patronato irrevocabili, e mandati di procura per vendere e donare, fideiussioni perpetue e altri strumenti descritti e annotati più ampiamente nei capitoli predetti, e ricevuti e rogati in qualsiasi modo, come sopra detto, da qualunque notaio della Città predetta, tanto nella Città quanto fuori di essa, secondo il modo e la forma prescritti e ordinati negli stessi capitoli, vogliamo, ordiniamo e similmente comandiamo che debbano essere portati, e in esso rispettivamente ricevuti, annotati e diligentemente e perpetuamente conservati e custoditi.

9 § 6. Infine, il diletto figlio Camillo, chierico fiorentino, dottore in utroque iure, presso di noi di scienza letteraria, di vita e di onestà di costumi, e da noi commendato molteplici volte per altri meriti di probità e di virtù, volendo prosequire il medesimo Camillo con il favore di speciale grazia in considerazione di ciò, dello quale confidenza nel Signore moltissimo nella fede, nella dottrina, nella prudenza e nell'esperienza in simili materie, lo costituiamo e deputiamo conservatore del detto archivio generale a nostro e della detta Sede beneplacito, con moto proprio e autorità paritaria. A Francesco invece cardinale, e agli altri che soprintendono al detto archivio generale, come sopra detto, cui sono qui affidate le tre funzioni di soprintendenti e governatori, concediamo facoltà di pubblicare, sotto il suo nome e sotto pene anche corporali a lui gradite, quante volte sarà necessario, editti, bandi e proclamazioni riguardanti il predetto archivio generale o i suoi affari per il tempo, e di dichiarare, interpretare, ampliare e innovare gli editti emanati per il tempo, e di farli eseguire, come a lui parrà più opportuno; nonché di udire, conoscere e decidere con debito fine tutte le cause civili, criminali e miste su quanto sopra detto e per occasione di ciò per il tempo intentate, e le appellazioni, reclamazioni, ricorsi e restitutiones in integrum dalle sentenze, decreti e gravami emanati, promulgati o comunque inflitti dal predetto Camillo e dal conservatore del detto archivio generale che per il tempo esisterà, con tutti e singoli gli incidenti, dipendenti, annessi e connessi, e tutti gli affari principali, anche privativamente quanto a tutti gli altri, con mano regia, semplicemente e in piano, senza strepito e forma di giudizio, e senza osservanza della tela giudiziaria, e rimossa ogni e qualunque appellazione, ricorso o restituzione in integrum, per se, o per altro o altri, da Francesco cardinale e dal soprintendente e governatore del detto archivio generale che per il tempo esisterà deputandi; e di ordinare, comandare, fare, gestire, esercitare, disporre ed eseguire tutte le altre cose singole che appartengono alla direzione del medesimo archivio generale e al suo retto e facile governo e amministrazione, e che altrimenti intorno a quanto sopra detto saranno necessarie o comunque opportune, concediamo e impartiamo piena e onnimoda potestà, autorità e facoltà.

10 § 7. Decernentes easdem praesentes, etiam ex eo quod notarii et eorum collegia, quibus officia et scripturae titulo oneroso vel alias per nos et Romanos Pontifices praedecessores nostros dictamque cameram apostolicam concessa reperiuntur, vocati et auditi non fuerint, vel ex eo quod praemissa nulla causa subsistente et etiam de facto processerint, aut ex alia quantumvis iuridica et legitima etiam necessario exprimenda causa, vel quocumque praetextu, de subreptionis vel obreptionis, aut nullitatis vitio, seu intentionis nostrae, vel quovis alio defectu, notari, impugnari, invalidari, retractari, et ad terminos iuris reduci, aut in ius vel controversiam revocari, seu adversus illas quodcumque iuris, gratiae, vel facti remedium impetrari, aut etiam motu, scientia et potestatis plenitudine similibus concedi, vel sub quibusvis constitutionibus, et cancellariae apostolicae regulis editis et edendis, ac litteris apostolicis in contrarium, etiam pari motu, ac consistorialiter emanatis, aut quibusvis aliis similium vel dissimilium gratiarum revocationibus, suspensionibus, limitationibus, aut aliis contrariis dispositionibus, comprehendi nullo unquam tempore posse. Aff. C. 1625 Clausulae pro praesentium litterarum firmitate.

11 1 Edit. Main. habet superintendentes (r. t.). sed semper ab illis excipi, et quoties illae emanabunt, toties in pristinum et eum, in quo erant, validissimum statum restitutas, repositas et plenarie reintegratas, ac de novo etiam sub quacumque posteriori data per pro tempore existentes cardinalem superintendentem et conservatorem dicti archivii generalis quandocumque eligendum concessas, validasque et efficaces, etiam quod in dieta camera apostolica nullo unquam tempore praesentarentur aut registrarentur, fore et esse;

12 § 8. Sicque, et non alias, per quoscumque iudices, etiam causarum palatii apostolici auditores, et camerae apostolicae praesidentes clericos, ac etiam eiusdem sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae camerarium, et alios cardinales, sublata eis et eorum cuilibet quavis aliter iudicandi et interpretandi facilitate, iudicari et definiri debere, irritum quoque et inane, si secus super his a quoquam, quavis auctoritate, scienter vel ignoranter, contigerit attentare. Designatio § 9. Quocirca dilectis filiis Urbis nostrae gubernatori, et causarum curiae dictae camerae generali auditori, et dilecti filii nostri in eadem Urbe, eiusque districtu vicarii in spiritualibus generalis in civilibus causis locumtenenti motu pari per apostolica scripta mandamus, quatenus ipsi, vel duo, aut unus eorum, per se, vel alium, seu alios, praesentes litteras, et in eis contenta quaecumque, ubi et quando opus fuerit, ac quoties pro parte Francisci cardinalis et Camilli praedictorum, ac pro tempore existentium dicti archivii protectoris et conservatoris, fuerint requisiti, solemniter publicantes, illisque efficacis defensionis praesidio assistentes, faciant easdem praesentes, et in eis contenta huiusmodi, ab omnibus, ad quos spectat et pro tempore spectabit, firmiter et inviolabiliter observari; ac Franciscum cardinalem et Camillum, ac pro tempore exequutorum.

13 Vili PP. 391 An. C. 1625 existentes protectorem et conservatorem huiusmodi, illis pacifice frui et gaudere, non permittentes eos desuper per quoscumque quomodolibet indebite molestari; contradictores quoslibet et rebelles per censuras et poenas ecclesiasticas, aliaque opportuna iuris et facti remedia, appellatione postposita, compescendo, ac sententias, censuras et poenas ipsas, servata forma Concilii Tridentini, etiam iteratis vicibus aggravando, invocato etiam ad hoc, si opus fuerit, auxilio brachii secularis.

14 § 10. Non obstantibus praemissis, et, quaobsumtum tenus opus sit, nostra de non tollendo iure eroga quaesito, ac felicis recordationis Pii Papae IV, etiam praedecessoris nostri, sub datura videlicet viii idus augusti, pontificatus sui anno vi edita, inter alia disponente, quod omnes gratiae qualecumque interesse camerae concernentes infra certum inibi expressum tempus in eadem camera praesentari et registrari debeant, aliisque constitutionibus et ordinationibus apostolicis, ac Urbis et aliarum quarumcumque civitatum, locorum, oppidorum, districtuum, necnon collegiorum, monasteriorum, ecclesiarum et aliorum piorum et non piorum locorum, etiam iuramento, confirmatione apostolica, vel quavis firmitate alia roboratis, statutis, reformationibus, decretis et consuetudinibus, privilegiis quoque, indultis et litteris apostolicis, exemptionibus, immunitatibus et concessionibus officiorum et notariatuum, etiam titulo oneroso, tam a nobis, quam a Romanis Pontificibus praedecessoribus nostris et camera praedicta, etiam per viam contractus, seu alias quomodolibet, tam praedictis omnibus et singulis, quam etiam iudicibus, officialibus, scriptoribus, notariis, eorumque collegiis et superioribus, dictaeque camerae, eiusque causa- 1 Haec pluries citata constitutio legitur in tom. vii, pag. 375 (r. t.).

15 rum auditori generali et procuratori fiscali, aliisque etiam personis, sub quibuscumque tenoribus et formis, ac cum quibusvis clausulis et decretis, etiam motu simili, etiam consistorialiter, ac alias, in contrarium quomodolibet concessis, approbatis ac innovatis, et in futurum concedendis, approbandis, confìrmandis et innovandis: quibus omnibus, etiamsi de illis, eorumque totis tenoribus specialis, specifica, expressa et individua, non autem per clausulas generales idem importantes, mentio habenda, aut aliqua alia exquisita forma ad id servanda foret, tenores huiusmodi praesentibus prò sufficienter expressis habentes, illis alias in suo robore permansuris, hac vice dumtaxat etiam motu huiusmodi specialiter et expresse derogamus, ac derogatum esse volumus et mandamus, contrariis quibuscumque: aut si quibusvis, communiter aut divisim, ab eàdem sit Sede indultum, quod interdici, suspendi, vel excommunicari non possint per litteras apostolicas non facientes plenam et expressam ac de verbo ad verbum de indulto huiusmodi mentionem. Praesentium § 11. Volumus autem, quod eaedem acienda publi- canda praesentes, una cum capitulis, ut praefertur, faciendis, ut omnibus innotescant, ad valvas basilicae Principis apostolorum de eàdem Urbe et cancellariae apostolicae praedictae ac in sfcie Campi Florae publicentur et affigantur, dimissis inibì earum copiis, quae perinde omnes arctent, ac si unicuique personaliter intimatae fuissent; § 12. Quodque earumdem praesentium fidem et capitulorum, ut praefertur, confìciendorum transumptis et exemplaribus, etiam impressis, ac manu alicuius notarii publici subscriptis, et sigillo alicuius personae in dignitate ecclesiastica constitutae munitis, ea prorsus fides adhibeatur, tam in iudicio quam extra, quae eisdem praesentibus adhiberetur, si forent exhibitae vel ostensae.

16 § 13. Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam nostrae erectionis, institutionis, applicationis, appropriationis, praecepti, constitutionis, deputationis, impartitionis, decretorum, derogationis, mandatorum et voluntatum infringere, vel ei ausu temerario contraire. Si quis autem hoc attentare praesumpserit, indignationem omnipotentis Dei, ac beatorum Petri et Pauli apostolorum eius, se noverit incursurum.

17 Dato a Roma, presso santa Maria Maggiore, nell'anno dell'Incarnazione del Signore milleseicento venticinque, il 16 novembre, del nostro pontificato nell'anno terzo.

18 Dat. die 16 novembris 1625, pontif. anno III. Anno a Nativitate Domini nostri Iesu Christi milleseicento ventisei, indictione nona, die vero diciassette mensis iulii, pontificatus Sanctissimi in Christo Patris et D. N. D. divina providentia Urbani VIII, anno

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Testo latino

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Inslìiiitio archivii generalis in Urbe l Urbanus Episcopus, servus servorum Dei, ad perpetuam rei memoriam.

1 Pastoralis officii nobis, meritis licet im- Prooemium. paribus, divina disposinone iniuncti sollicitudo assidue cor nostrum pulsat et commovel, ut non solum ad ea, quae animarum salutem respiciunt, verum etiam quae ad populorum , praesertim almae Urbis nostrae, ac nobis, et Sedis Apostolicae temporali ditioni subditorum utilitatem , pacem, tranquillilatem, perpetuamque securitatem pertinere noscunlur, vigilantiae nostrae aciem dirigamus, et praesertim noxis illis, quae, ob non adhibitam satis exactam diligentiam in conservandis tam publicis quam privatis scripturis , inter subditos nostros, gravi cum nostra, eorum- 1 Plura de archiviis invenies praecipue in Constit. xix (in n. ed. xviii) Iulii II, Sicut, tom. v, pag. 458.

2 Irti e.

4 8 2. Motu igitur proprio, non ad ali- Archivium « oii' ... Urbanum msticuius nobis super hoc oblatae petitioms tuii; instantiam, sed ex certa scientià et mera deliberatone nostris , ac de apostolicae potestatis plenitudine, archivium generale, Urbanum nuncupandum, sub protectione et suprema superintendentià dilecti fìlli Francisci S. Agathae diaconi cardinalis Barberini nuncupati, nostri secundum carnea! ex fratre germano nepotis, eius vita durante, et, post illius obitum, unius ex eiusdem sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae car- Eiqne cardi- . _ nalcm praeflcit, dinalibus per prò tempore existentem Romanum Pontifìcem ad id specialiter deputandi *, in dieta Urbe , in loco prope plateam Principis Apostolorum de Urbe nuncupatam per nos designato; et, prò eiusdem archivii generalis bono regimine et administralione, unum conservatoriae eiusdem archivii generalis officium prò uno clerico vel laico utriusque iuris doctore, vitae ac morum probitale et experientià praedilo, ac alias sufficienti et idoneo, conservatore archivii generalis Urbani nuncupando, ad nostrum et prò tempore exiac conservastentis Romani Pontificis nutum ponendo l°,eDD' 1 Male edit. Mairi, legit deputcmdmn (r. t.). et amovendo , cum infrascriptis et aliis omnibus et singulis privilegiis, facultatibus, honoribus, praeeminentiis et oneribus, in capitulis per dilectum filium nostrum Antonium diclae sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae presbyterum cardinalem sancti Honuphrii nuncupatum de mandato nostro subscriptis expressis, et aliis etiam per prò tempore existentem archivii generalis huiusmodi superintendentem cardinalem quandocumque ampliandis, moderandis et declarandis, apostolica auctoritate, tenore praesentium , perpetuo erigimus et instituimus ; illique sic erecto et instituto , prò eius dote ac illud prò tempore obtinentis sustentatione, salario et emolumento, summam in particulari chirographo, etiam hodie manu nostra subscripto, ex taxis ac omnibus iuribus, obventionibus, emolumentis et aliis regalibus in dictis capitulis contenlis et specificatis designandam, dieta auctoritate etiam perpetuo applicamus et appropriamus, ac ex nunc applicatam et appropriatam fore et esse volumus et declaramus.

5 cui saiarium 8 3. Ita ut liceat eidem conservatori prò assigaat. . . * tempore existenti, per se, vel ahum ad id ab eo deputandum, summam sic applicatam et appropriatam ab iis, ad quos prò tempore spectabit, exigere, recipere et retinere, ac in suos usus et utilitatem convertere, nostra vel Romani Pontifìcis prò tempore existentis licentià desuper minime requisita.

6 Et privilegia 8 4. Ac (ut praedictum officium sic erenic recensita " . ^ . x ctum et mstitutum, ìlludque prò tempore obtinens amplioribus per nos favoribus et gratiis decoretur) quod prò tempore existens conservator dicti archivii noster ac prò tempore existentis Romani Pontifìcis verus, indubitatus et non fictus familiaris continuus commensalis, aliorumque familiarium et continuorum commensalium numero et consortio adscriptus et aggregato eo ipso existat ; et vestes violacei deceroit.

7 Vili PP. 389 An. G. 1625 coloris ad instar nostrorum cubiculariorum honoris nuncupatorum gestet, illisque arbitrio suo utatur; ac, in signum verae et indubitatae ac non fictae familiaritatis huiusmodi, singulis diebus ex palatio apostolico panem eiusdem quantitatis et qualitatis, próut dileclis filiis in utràque signatura nostra referendariis dari consuevit, habeat, decernimus, et panem huiusmodi dietim sibi ex dicto palatio dari mandamus.

8 § 5. Ad archivium aulem generale praeomnia omnidictum omnia testamenta, fideicommissa, st°rumentaa ai ! , ,. .,, j .• a .• hoc archivium legata, codicillos, donationes causa mortis mbet detem. et alias ultimas voluntates, a quibusvis notariis publicis Urbis, etiam eorum officia titulo oneroso a nobis et Sede praedictà ac camera apostolica habentibus, necnon parochis eiusdem Urbis, tam in ipsà Urbe quam extra eam, quomodolibet recepta et rogata, ac super venditionibus, et venditionum resolulionibus et rescissionibus , cessionibus, renunciationibus, transactionibus, divisionibus, in solutum dationibus, permutationibus de et super bonis et rebus immobilibus factis, necnon censibus et eorum extinctionibus, feudis, subfeudis, ac in emphyteusim, livellum, aut sub annuo censu, canone, vel alia responsione concessionibus , inter vivos donationibus, insinuationibus , dotibus et pactis dotalibus, haereditatum aditionibus, repudiationibus, et inventariis, emancipationibus, adoptionibus , arrogationibus, iurispatronatibus irrevocabilibus, et ad vendendum et donandum procurationum mandatis , fideiussionibus perpetuis ac alia instrumenta in capitulis praedictis latius descripta et adnotata, et per quosvis notarios Urbis praedictos, tam in Urbe quam extra eam, quomodolibet, ut praefertur, recepta et rogata, sub modo et forma in eisdem capitulis praescriptis et ordinatis, deferri, et in eo respective recipi, annotari ac diligenter et perpetuo conservari et custodiri debere volumus, praecipimus el similiter mandamus.

9 con.erv.no- § G. Postremo, dilectum filium Camillum rem deputai,- perimm ciericum Florenlinum utriusque iuris doctorem, apud nos de litterarura scienlià, vilae ac morum honestate, aliisque probilatis et virtutum meiitis mullipliciter commendatum, horum intuitu specialis gratiae favore prosequi volentes , eumdem Camillum, de cuius fide, doctrinà, prudentià, et in similibus experientià plurimum in Domino confidimus, in conservatorem dicti archivii generalis ad nostrum et dictae Sedis beneplacitum motu el auctoritate paribus constituimus et de- Eique, aiiisputamus. Francisco vero cardinali, ac aliis que superinlen- ,..,... ,. p , dentibus facuidicti archivii generalis, ut praelertur, detates hìc cmin- 1. , ., , daias tribù», putandis superintendentibus et gubernatoribus, edicla, bannimenia et proclamationes , praedictum archivium generale vel illius negotia prò tempore quomodolibet concernenza, sub suo nomine, ac sub poenis etiam corporalibus sibi benevisis, quoties opus fuerit, publicandi, ac prò tempore emanata declarandi, interpretandi , ampliandi et innovarteli , ac exequutioni demandali faciendi , prout eidem magis expedire visum fuerit; necnon oinnes causas civiles, criminales et mixtas super praemissis et illorum occasione prò tempore molas, ac appellationum, reclamationum, recursuum, ac in integrum restitutionum a sententiis, decretis et gravaminibus per praedictum Camillum et prò tempore exislentem conservatorem dicti archivii generalis latis, promulgatis, seu quomodolibet illatis, cum omnibus et singulis incidentibus, dependenlibus, annexis et connexis, lotisque negotiis priucipalibus, etiam privative quoad omnes alios, manu regia, simpliciter et de plano, sine strepitu et figura iudicii, ac tela iudiciarià minime observatà, ac omni et quacumque appellalione, recursu, vel restitulione in intogruvn rcrnotis, per se, vel alium, aut alios, a Francisco cardinales et prò tempore existenle superintendente l et gubernatore dicti archivii generalis deputandos, audi'endi, cognoscendi, fineque debito terminandi et decidendi; aliaque omnia et singula, quae ad ipsius archivii generalis directionem ac reclam et facilem administrationem et gubernationem pertinent, et alias circa praemissa necessaria fuerint seu quomodolibet opportuna, ordinandi, mandandi, faciendi, gerendi , exercendi, disponendi el exequendi plenam et omnimodam potestalem, auctorilalem et facultatem concedimus et impartimur.

10 § 7. Decernentes easdem praesentes , etiam ex eo quod notarii et eorum collegia , quibus officia et scripturae titulo oneroso vel alias per nos et Romanos Pontifices praedecessores nostros dictamque cameram apostolicam concessa reperiuntur, vocati et auditi non fuerint, vel ex eo quod praemissa nulla causa subsislente et etiam de facto processerint , aut ex alia quantumvis iuridicà et legitimà etiam necessario exprimendà causa, vel quocumque praetextu, de subreptionis vel obreptionis , aut nulli tatis vitio , seu intentionis nostrae, vel quovis alio defectu, notali, impugnali, invalidar^ retractari, et ad terminos iuris reduci , aut in ius vel controversiam revocari , seu adversus illas quodeumque iuris, gratiae, vel facti remedium impetrali, aut etiam motu, scientià et potestatis plenitudine similibus concedi, vel sub quibusvis constitutionibus , el cancellariae apostolicae regulis editis et edendis, ac litteris apostolicis in contrarimi), etiam pari motu, ac consistorialiter emanatis, aut quibusvis aliis similium vel dissimilium gratiarum revocationibus , suspensionibus , limitationibus, aut aliis contrariis dispositionibus, comprehendi nullo unquam tempore posse , Afl' C. 1625 Clausnlae prò praesentium litterarura firmitato.

11 1 Edit. Main. habet superintendenles (r. t.). sed semper ab illis excipi, et quoties illae emanabunt, toties in pristinum et eum, in quo erant, validissimum statum restitutas, repositas et plenarie reintegratas, ac de novo etiara sub quacumque posteriori data per prò tempore existentes cardinalem superintendentem et conservatorem dicti archi vii generalis quandocumque eligendà concessas, validasque et efficaces, etiara quod in dieta camera apostolica nullo unquam tempore praesentarentur aut registrarentur, fore et esse ;

12 § 8. Sicque, et non alias, per quoscumque iudices, etiam causarum palatii apostolici auditores , et caraerae apostolicae praesidentes clericos, ac etiam eiusdem sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae camerarium, et alios cardinales, sublatà eis et eorum cuilibet quavis aliter iudicandi et interpretandi facilitate, iudicari et defmiri debere, irritum quoque et inane, si secus super his a quoquam, quavis auctoritate, scienter vel ignoranter , contigerit attentare Designatio § 9. Quocirca dilectis fìliis Urbis nostrae gubernatori, et causarum curiae dictae camerae generali auditori, et dilecti filli nostri in eàdem Urbe, eiusque dislrictu vicarii in spiritualibus generalis in civilibus causis locumtenenti motu pari per apostolica scripta mandamus , quatenus ipsi, vel duo, aut unus eorum, per se, vel alium, seu alios, praesentes litteras, et in eis contenta quaecumque, ubi et quando opus fuerit, ac quoties prò parte Francisci cardinalis et Camilli praedictorum, ac prò tempore existentium dicti archivii protectoris et conservatoris, fuerint requisiti , solemniter publicantes, illisque efficacis defensionis praesidio assistentes, faciant easdem praesentes, et in eis contenta huiusmodi, ab omnibus, ad quos spectat et prò tempore spectabit, firmiter et inviolabiliter observari ; ac Franciscum cardinalem et Camillum, ac prò tempore equutorura.

13 Vili PP. 391 An. C. 1625 existentes protectorem et conservatorem huiusmodi, illis pacifice fruì et gaudere, non permiltentes eos desuper per quoscumque quomodolibet indebite molestari; contradictores quoslibet et rebelles per censuras et poenas ecclesiasticas, aliaque opportuna iuris et facti remedia, appellatione postposità, compescendo, ac sententias, censuras et poenas ipsas, servata forma Concilii Tridentini, etiara ileratis vicibus aggravando, invocato etiam ad hoc , si opus fuerit , auxilio brachii secularis.

14 § 1 0. Non obstantibus praemissis, et, quaobsumtmm tenus opus sit, nostra de non tollendo iure 6roga '°' quaesito, ac felicis recordationis Pii Papae IV, etiam praedecessoris nostri, sub datura videlicet vm idus augusti, pontificatus sui anno vi edita i, inter alia disponente, quod omnes gratiae qualecumque interesse camerae coricernentes infra certum inibi expressum tempus in eàdem camera praesentari et registrari debeant, aliisque constitutionibus et ordinationibus apostolicis, ac Urbis et aliarum quarumeumque civitatum, locorum, oppidorum, districtuum, necnon collegiorum, monasteriorum , ecclesiarum et aliorum piorum et non piorum locorum, etiam iuramento, confirmatione apostolica , vel quavis firmitate alia roboratis, statutis, reformationibus, decretis et consuetudin'ibus , privilegiis quoque, indultis et lilteris apostolicis, exemptionibus, immunilalibus et concessionibus officiorum et notariatuum , etiam tilulo oneroso, tara a nobis, quam a Romanis Pontificibus praedecessoribus nostris et camera praedictà, etiam per viam contractus, seu alias quomodolibet, tam praedictis omnibus et singulis , quam etiam iudicibus, officialibus, scriptoribus, notariis , eorumque collegiis et superioribus, dictaequae camerae, eiusque causa- 1 Haec pluries citata constitutio legitur in tom. vii, pag. 375 (r. t.).

15 rum auditori generali et procuratori fiscali, aliisque etiam personis, sub quibuscumque tenoribus et formis, ac cum quibusvis clausulis et decretis, etiam motu simili, etiam consistorialiter, ac alias, in contrarium quomodolibet concessis, approbatis ac innovatis, et in futurum concedendis, approbandis, confìrmandis et innovandis: quibus omnibus, etiamsi de illis, eorumque totis tenoribus specialis , specifica , expressa et individua, non autem per clausulas generales idem importantes , mentio habenda, aut aliqua alia exquisita forma ad id servanda foret, tenores huiusmodi praesentibus prò sufficienter expressis habentes, illis alias in suo robore permansuris, hac vice dumtaxat etiam motu huiusmodi specialiter et expresse derogamus, ac derogatum esse volumus et mandamus, contrariis quibuscumque : aut si quibusvis, communiter aut divisim, ab eàdem sit Sede indultum, quod interdici , suspendi, vel excommunicari non possint per litteras apostolicas non facientes plenam et expressam ac de verbo ad verbum de indulto huiusmodi mentionem. Praesentium §11. Volumus autem , quod eaedem acienda publi- 7 ^ «•■alio. praesentes, una cum capitulis, ut praefertur, faciendis, ut omnibus innotescant, ad valvas basilicae Principis apostolorum de eàdem Urbe et cancellariae apostolicae pradictae ac in sfcie Campi Florae publicenlur et affigantur, dimissis inibì earum copiis, quae perinde omnes arctent, ac si unicuique personaliter intimatae fuissent; JTdhTenda § ^' Qu0^(lue earumdem praesentium fiJe<- et capitulorum, ut praefertur, confìciendorum transumptis et exemplaribus, etiam impressis, ac manu alicuius notarii pablici subscriptis, et sigillo alicuius personae in dignitate ecclesiastica constitutae munitis, ea prorsus fides adhibeatur , tam* in iudicio quam extra, quae eisdem praesentibus adhiberetur, si forent exhibitae vel ostensae.

16 § 13. Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam noslrae erectionis, institutionis, applicationis , appropriationis, praecepti, constitutionis, deputationis, impartitionis, decretorum, derogationis, mandatorum et voluntatum infringere, vel ei ausu temerario contraire. Si quis autem hoc attentare praesumpserit , indignationem omnipotentis Dei, ac beatorum Petri et Pauli apostolorum eius, se noverit incursurum.

17 Datum Romae, apud sanctam Mariam Maiorem, anno Incarnationis Dominicae mdcxxv, xvi kalendas decembris, pontificatus nostri anno m.

18 Dat. die 16 novembris 1625, pontif. anno in. Anno a Nativitate Domini nostri lesti Christi mdcxxvi, indictione ix, die vero xvn mensis udii , pontificatus Sanctissimi in Chrislo Patris et D. N. D. divina providentid Urbani Vili , anno

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Testo inglese

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Institution of a General Archive in the City | Urban, Bishop, servant of the servants of God, for perpetual memory of the matter.

1 The care of the pastoral office entrusted to us, Preamble. though we are unworthy of it, by divine disposition, constantly strikes and moves our heart, so that we may direct the attention of our vigilance not only to those things which regard the salvation of souls, but also to those which are known to pertain to the utility, peace, tranquility, and perpetual security of peoples, especially of our beloved City and of those subject to us and to the temporal dominion of the Apostolic See, and especially to those harms which, on account of insufficient and not sufficiently exact diligence in preserving both public and private writings, we understand to arise and flourish frequently among our subjects with grave distress to us and to them, and loss of their fortunes; that we may provide by some suitable means, and, for the happy progress of those things which are therefore ordained by us, commit their care to the prudence of distinguished men, by whose work and zeal they may be happily governed, and disputes may be more easily terminated, as we perceive in the Lord it will be expedient for the fulfillment of justice and the quiet of those same subjects.1 Causes of the § 1. Since therefore (from the multiplicity and diversity of notaries of the City, and the incompetence and negligence of some of them, and from the confusion of instruments and other writings, and careless custody, many losses and inconveniences are inflicted upon our subjects and others, and the greatest detriment to public faith is brought about daily, and the same is placed in no small peril of falsifications and frauds, and conversely from diligent care of those same instruments and writings all falsifications and frauds are avoided, the dominion of things and rights are preserved to each, and other not inconsiderable goods come about, we have sufficiently explored and abundantly perceived; and in most domains and foreign regions, and also by the authority of our Roman Pontiff predecessors in almost all cities and places of our Ecclesiastical State public and general archives, and in our City itself certain particular ones, namely the Capitoline and of the Roman Curia, and perhaps others, have been erected and instituted, yet we observe that some of these have fallen into disuse, others are deficient in many respects, and through them such inconveniences, losses and frauds, and their perils are not sufficiently provided for; and recalling from the annals of sacred history that the Roman Church once had a public archive under the name of the chartulary, and that the office of chartulary was of great dignity and authority in that same Roman Church and Apostolic See; and wishing, as far as in us lies, to meet the aforesaid matters), we judge that our aforesaid subjects and all others could not be better consulted in any other way than through the erection of a public and general archive in the said City, to which public instruments and other writings drawn up by the notaries of that City and others underwritten should be brought for the time being and preserved in it, for the ornament of that City and the Roman Curia, and for the safe and perpetual preservation of instruments and writings, the security of our subjects and others, and the public and private utility of all, we have decreed to proceed to such an erection.

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3 that troubles and misfortunes of theirs we understand to arise and flourish frequently, we should provide for them by some suitable means, and, for the happy progress of those things which are therefore ordained by us, we should entrust their care to the prudence of distinguished men, by whose work and diligence they may be happily governed, and disputes may be more easily terminated, as we perceive it expedient in the Lord to accomplish readily for the fulfillment of justice and the peace of those same subjects. § 1. Since therefore (from the multiplicity and diversity of notaries of the City, and the inexperience and negligence also of some of them, and from the confusion of instruments and other writings, and careless custody, very many losses and inconveniences are inflicted upon our subjects and others, the greatest detriment to public faith is brought about daily, and the same is placed in no small peril from falsifications and frauds, and conversely from the diligent care of those same instruments and writings all falsifications and frauds are avoided, the dominion of things and rights are preserved to each one, and other not inconsiderable goods come about—which we have sufficiently explored and abundantly perceived; and observing that in very many domains and foreign regions, and also by the authority of our predecessors the Roman Pontiffs in almost all cities and places of our Ecclesiastical State public and general archives, and in our City itself certain particular ones, namely the Capitoline and of the Roman Curia, and perhaps others, have been erected and established, yet some of these have fallen into disuse, others are deficient in many respects, and we perceive that through them such inconveniences, losses and frauds, and their perils are not sufficiently provided for; and recalling from the annals of sacred history that the Roman Church once had a public archive under the name of cartophylacium, and that the office of cartophylacium was of great dignity and authority in that same Roman Church and Apostolic See; and wishing, as far as in us lies, to remedy the aforesaid circumstances), we judge that our aforesaid subjects and all others could not be better consulted in no other way than through the erection of a public and general archive in the said City, to which public instruments and other writings requested by the notaries of that City and others written below should be brought for the time being and preserved therein, for the ornament of that City and the Roman Curia, and for the safe and perpetual preservation of instruments and writings, the security of our subjects and others, and the public and private utility of all, we have decreed to proceed to such an erection.

4 § 2. By Our own motu proprio, therefore, not at the instance of any petition offered to Us on this matter, but from certain knowledge and mere deliberation of Our own, and from the fullness of apostolic power, We do erect and establish in perpetuity, by apostolic authority, the general archive, to be called the Urbanum, under the protection and supreme superintendence of Our beloved son Francis, deacon cardinal of St. Agatha, named Barberini, Our nephew by the same father's brother, during his lifetime, and, after his death, one of the cardinals of the same holy Roman Church to be specially appointed for this purpose by the Roman Pontiff existing from time to time; in the said City, in a place near the square of the Prince of the Apostles of the City, designated by Us; and, for the good governance and administration of the same general archive, We do erect and establish in perpetuity, with all and singular the privileges, faculties, honors, preeminences and burdens set forth in the chapters subscribed by Our beloved son Anthony, presbyter cardinal of the holy Roman Church, named of St. Honorius, by Our mandate, and others also to be enlarged, moderated and declared at any time by the superintendent cardinal of the general archive existing from time to time, by apostolic authority, one office of conservator of the same general archive for one clerk or layman, a doctor of both laws, endowed with probity and experience of life and morals, and otherwise sufficient and suitable, to be called conservator of the Urbanum archive, to be placed at Our pleasure and that of the Roman Pontiff existing from time to time, to be appointed and removed; and We do apply and appropriate in perpetuity, by the said authority, for its endowment and for the sustenance, salary and emolument of him obtaining it from time to time, a sum to be designated in a particular chirograph, also subscribed by Our hand this very day, from the taxes and all rights, revenues, emoluments and other regalia contained and specified in the said chapters; and We will and declare that it be and is applied and appropriated from now on.

5 § 3. So that it may be lawful for the same conservator existing from time to time, through himself or through another appointed by him for this purpose, to exact, receive and retain the sum thus applied and appropriated from those to whom it shall pertain from time to time, and to convert it to his own uses and benefit, without any license from Us or the Roman Pontiff existing from time to time being required in this regard.

6 § 4. And (so that the aforesaid office thus erected and instituted, and he obtaining it from time to time, may be decorated by Us with more ample favors and graces) We decree that the conservator existing from time to time of the said archive shall be Our true, undoubted and not fictitious familiar and continuous table-companion, and shall be inscribed and aggregated in the number and company of Our other familiars and continuous table-companions by that very fact; and he shall wear garments of violet color in the manner of Our cubicularii called of honor, and shall use them at his discretion; and, as a sign of true and undoubted and not fictitious familiarity of this kind, We decree, and We command that there be given to him daily from the apostolic palace bread of the same quantity and quality as is customarily given to Our beloved sons, the referendaries in both Our signature, and We command that such bread be given to him daily from the said palace.

7 VIII Pope 389 Year G. 1625 of a color in the manner of our chamberlains called men of honor shall wear, and shall use them at his discretion; and, as a sign of true and undoubted and not feigned familiarity of this kind, we decree that on each day from the apostolic palace he shall have bread of the same quantity and quality, as it has been customary to be given to our beloved sons in both our signature office to referendaries, and we command that bread of this kind shall be given to him daily from the said palace.

8 § 5. To the general archive, moreover, all wills, trusts, instruments and legacies, codicils, donations causa mortis and other last wills, received and requested in any manner whatsoever by any public notaries of the City, even those having their offices held by us and the aforesaid See and apostolic chamber at onerous title, as well as by the parish priests of the same City, both within the City itself and outside it, and concerning sales, and resolutions and rescissions of sales, cessions, renunciations, transactions, divisions, payments in lieu, exchanges concerning and upon immovable goods and things made, as well as censuses and their extinctions, fiefs, subfiefs, and concessions in emphyteusis, livery, or under annual census, canon, or other payment, donations between living persons, insinuations, dowries and dotal pacts, acceptances of inheritances, repudiations, and inventories, emancipations, adoptions, arrogations, irrevocable rights of patronage, and mandates to sell and donate, perpetual sureties and other instruments described and noted more fully in the aforesaid chapters, and received and requested in any manner whatsoever, as aforesaid, by any notaries of the aforesaid City, both in the City and outside it, under the manner and form prescribed and ordained in the same chapters, we will, command and likewise mandate that they ought to be brought, and in it respectively received, noted and diligently and perpetually preserved and guarded.

9 § 6. Finally, our beloved son Camillus, a Florentine cleric, doctor of both laws, commended to us for learning, life and honesty of morals, and by other merits of probity and virtues in manifold ways, wishing to follow him with the favour of special grace for these reasons, the same Camillus, in whom we trust greatly in the Lord concerning his faith, learning, prudence, and experience in similar matters, we constitute and appoint as conservator of the said general archive at our and the aforesaid See's pleasure by our own motion and authority. To Francis, however, the cardinal, and to the other superintendents of the said general archive, as aforesaid, entrusted here with the duties of superintendents and governors, we grant the power to publish edicts, bans and proclamations concerning the aforesaid general archive or its affairs in any manner whatsoever for the time being, under his name, and under corporal penalties also pleasing to him, as often as it shall be necessary, and to declare, interpret, enlarge and renew those emanated for the time being, and to cause them to be carried out, as it shall seem more expedient to him; as well as all civil, criminal and mixed cases concerning the aforesaid matters and arising from their occasion for the time being brought, and appeals, reclamations, recourses, and restitutions in full from sentences, decrees and grievances issued, promulgated, or in any manner brought by the aforesaid Camillus and the conservator of the said general archive existing for the time being, with all and singular incidents, dependencies, annexes and connections, and all principal matters, even exclusively as to all others, by royal hand, simply and plainly, without the noise and form of judgment, and with judicial procedure not at all observed, and with all and any appeal, recourse, or restitution in full removed, by himself, or another, or others, to be appointed by Francis the cardinal and the superintendent and governor of the said general archive existing for the time being, to hear, to know, and to terminate and decide with due conclusion; and all other things whatsoever which pertain to the direction of the said general archive and its easy administration and governance, and otherwise which shall be necessary or in any manner opportune concerning the aforesaid matters, we grant and impart full and complete power, authority and faculty to ordain, command, do, conduct, exercise, dispose and execute.

10 § 7. Decreeing that these same present letters, even on the ground that the notaries and their colleges, to whom offices and writings have been found granted by us and by the Roman Pontiffs our predecessors and by the said apostolic chamber on a burdensome title or otherwise, were not called and heard, or on the ground that the aforesaid proceeded without any cause subsisting and even in fact, or on any other however juridical and legitimate cause, even necessarily to be expressed, or under whatever pretext, on account of the vice of surreption or obreption, or nullity, or of our intention, or any other defect, may be impugned, invalidated, retracted, and reduced to the terms of law, or recalled into law or controversy, or any remedy whatsoever of law, grace, or fact be obtained against them, or even by our motion, knowledge and fullness of power similar remedies be granted, or under whatever constitutions and rules of the apostolic chancery issued and to be issued, and apostolic letters issued to the contrary, even by equal motion and consistorially, or whatever other revocations of similar or dissimilar graces, suspensions, limitations, or other contrary dispositions, can in no wise at any time be comprehended. Aff. C. 1625 Clauses for the firmness of the present letters.

11 1 Edit. Main. has superintendentes (r. t.). but always to be excepted by them, and as often as those shall emanate, so often to be restored to their pristine and the state in which they were, most valid, replaced and fully reintegrated, and anew also under whatever later date by the cardinal superintendent and conservator of the said general archive existing for the time being whenever to be elected granted, valid and effective, even though in the said apostolic chamber at no time whatever they should be presented or registered, to be and to be;

12 § 8. Thus, and not otherwise, by whosoever judges, even auditors of causes of the apostolic palace, and presidents of the apostolic chamber clerics, and also the camerlengo of the same holy Roman Church, and other cardinals, taken away from them and from each of them whatever facility of judging and interpreting otherwise, to be judged and defined, also null and void, if otherwise concerning these things by anyone, whatever authority, knowingly or unknowingly, should happen to be attempted. Designation § 9. Wherefore to our beloved sons the governor of our City, and the general auditor of causes of the said court of the chamber, and our beloved son in the same City, and its district vicar general in spiritual matters locum tenens in civil causes by equal motion through apostolic writings we command, that they, or two, or one of them, through themselves, or another, or others, the present letters, and whatever things contained in them, where and when it shall be necessary, and as often as for the part of Cardinal Francis and Camillus aforesaid, and for the time being existing protector and conservator of the said archive, they shall have been requested, solemnly publishing, and assisting them with the protection of effective defense, may cause the same present letters, and the things contained in them thus, by all to whom it pertains and for the time being shall pertain, firmly and inviolably to be observed; and Cardinal Francis and Camillus, and for the time being the executors.

13 VIII PP. 391 An. C. 1625 existing protector and conservator thus, them peacefully to enjoy and to rejoice, not permitting them to be molested thereupon by whosoever in any way indebitably; whatever contradictors and rebels through censures and ecclesiastical penalties, and other opportune remedies of law and fact, appeal being set aside, to be restrained, and the sentences, censures and penalties themselves, the form of the Council of Trent being observed, even by repeated times to be aggravated, invoked also for this, if it shall be necessary, the aid of the secular arm.

14 § 10. Notwithstanding the aforesaid, and, insofar as it has been necessary up to now, our right of not taking away sought, and of happy memory Pope Pius IV, also our predecessor, under the date namely eight days before the Ides of August, in the sixth year of his pontificate issued, among other things providing, that all grants whatsoever concerning the chamber should be presented and registered in the same chamber within a certain time expressed there, and by other constitutions and apostolic ordinances, and of the City and of other whatsoever cities, places, towns, districts, and also of colleges, monasteries, churches and other pious and non-pious places, even by oath, apostolic confirmation, or any other firmness, strengthened, statutes, reforms, decrees and customs, privileges also, indults and apostolic letters, exemptions, immunities and concessions of offices and notariates, even by title of payment, both by us, and by the Roman Pontiffs our predecessors and the aforesaid chamber, even by way of contract, or otherwise in any manner, both the aforesaid all and singular, and also judges, officials, writers, notaries, and their colleges and superiors, and the said chamber, and its causes-1 This frequently cited constitution is read in vol. vii, p. 375 (r. t.).

15 to the auditor general and fiscal procurator, and also to other persons, under whatsoever tenors and forms, and with whatsoever clauses and decrees, even by similar motion, even in consistory, and otherwise, granted, approved and renewed in any way to the contrary, and to be granted, approved, confirmed and renewed in the future: all of which, even if special, specific, express and individual mention of them and their entire tenors, and not by general clauses importing the same, or some other exquisite form to be observed for this, should have been made, we, holding the tenors of these things as sufficiently expressed herein, which would otherwise remain in their force, do on this occasion also by this similar motion specially and expressly derogate, and will and command that they be derogated, notwithstanding anything to the contrary: or if to any, commonly or severally, it has been granted by the same See that they cannot be interdicted, suspended, or excommunicated by apostolic letters not making full and express and word-for-word mention of this indult. We will moreover that these same things to be done, together with the chapters, as aforesaid, to be made, so that all may know of them, be published and affixed at the doors of the basilica of the Prince of the Apostles of the same City and at the aforesaid apostolic chancery and in the place of the Campus Florae, copies being left there, which shall bind all equally, as if they had been intimated to each personally; and to the transumpts and copies, even printed, of these same presents and of the chapters, as aforesaid, to be made, and subscribed by the hand of some public notary, and furnished with the seal of some person constituted in ecclesiastical dignity, that faith be given entirely, as much in judgment as outside, as would be given to these same presents, if they were exhibited or shown.

16 § 13. Let no one whatsoever be permitted to infringe this page of our erection, institution, application, appropriation, precept, constitution, deputation, impartition, decrees, derogation, mandates and will, or to contravene it by rash presumption. If anyone, however, shall presume to attempt this, let him know that he will incur the indignation of almighty God, and of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, his.

17 Given at Rome, at St. Mary Major, in the year of the Incarnation of the Lord 1625, on the sixteenth day before the Kalends of December, in the third year of our pontificate.

18 Given on the sixteenth day of November 1625, pontificate year three. In the year from the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ 1626, in the ninth indiction, on the seventeenth day of the month of July, of the Most Holy Father in Christ and our Lord Urban VIII, by divine providence, in the third year of his pontificate

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