when they shall be removed thence, let copies of them remain affixed in the same places. But by this reading, publication, and affixing, we will that each and every person included in these letters, in three months, to be reckoned from the day of its publication and affixion, be [thereby] bound and obliged in the same manner as if they had been published and read out to themselves. To copies also of it, which copies have been written, subscribed by the hand of some public notary, and vouched for by the seal and subscription of some person constituted in ecclesiastical dignity, we command and decree that credit be attached without any doubt.
Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, under the seal of the Fisherman, on the 24th day of March, 1564, the fifth year of our pontificate.
THE CONSTITUTIONS
TAKEN FROM THE ANCIENT LAW, AND NOTICED BT THE COUNCIL OF TRENT OR SPECIALLY CHANGED BY IT.
Council of Carthage.
From the first part of the Decretum, DUt, XLI. cap. 7.
(Sess. xxv. de ref. cap. 1.)
Let the bishop keep plain furniture and [a plain] table, and poor diet, and let him seek the authority of his dignity by faith and by merits of life. Let him also have a hospitium not far from the church.
Council of Chalcedon.
From the first part of the Decretum, Dist. LXX, cap. 1.
(Sess, xxiii. de ref. cap. 16.)
That no one be absolutely[1] ordained priest, or deacon, or any one constituted in ecclesiastical ordination, unless he who is ordained deserve the appellation of published ordination in the church of his city or estate, or in a martyrium, or in a monastery. But those who are absolutely ordained, the holy synod has decreed to have the imposition of hands
- ↑ I. e. without a title to orders.
