everywhere and among all, but that they ought to be held and accounted as though they hod never gone forth. Decreeing, nevertheless, that all and every one of those particulars which were transacted and done in any manner soever, and shall for the future be done by virtue of privileges, exemptions, immunities, and dispensations, faculties, conservatories, indults, confessionals, and any other boons soever of this kind, after the time when the council began to be binding, are and are deemed to be, null, void, and invalid in those points in which they are opposed to the decrees of the aforesaid council, and that they can and ought to support no one, however circumstanced or qualified he may be, as well in the forum fori,[1] as they say, as in the forum conscientia, and that it ought to be so judged and defined in both forums by all the ordinaries of the several places whatsoever, and the other judges and commissaries whatsoever exercising authority, likewise by the cardinals of the holy Roman Church, the power of judging otherwise being taken, from them, and from any of them, and whatever may happen knowingly or ignorantly to be attempted by any one, of what authority soever, we decree to be null and void; notwithstanding what may have preceded, and the apostolic constitutions and ordinances, and other contrary [enactments]. Wherefore let it be lawful for no one soever to infringe this page of our declaration, statute, ordinance, and decree, or by rash daring to contravene it. But if any one shall presume to attempt this, let him know that he will incur the indignation of Almighty God, and of his blessed apostles Peter and Paul.
Given at Rome, at Saint Peter's, in the year of the incarnation of our Lord 1565, the 13th of the calends of March and the sixth year of our pontificate.
Cae. Glorierius,
P. Bishop of Narnt.
H. Cumyn
In the year from the nativity of our Lord 1565, on the 6th indiction, on the 24th day of February, in the sixth year
- ↑ I. e. the real court of justice, opposed to the supposed one of conscience. The phrase "forum pœnitentiæ" is also in use. Cf. Du Cange, vol. iii. p. 654.
