in the name and authority aforesaid, and to perform, institute; ordain, and execute the other things, as above mentioned, and the things thereunto necessary and opportune, according to the contents and tenor of the previous letters which have been on other occasion addressed unto you: [and] We will hold as ratified and pleasing whatsoever by you shall have been done, instituted, ordained, or executed, in the matters aforesaid, and will, with God's help, cause it to be inviolably observed; any apostolical constitutions and ordinances, and other things whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding. Wherefore, let it be lawful to no one soever to infringe this letter of our grant, or with rash daring go contrary thereto. But if anyone shall presume to attempt this, let him know that he will incur the indication of Almighty God, and of the blessed Peter and Paul, His apostles. Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, in the year of the Lord's Incarnation, 1547, on the 8th of the calends of March,[1] in the eleventh year of our pontificate.
B. Motta.
SESSION THE EIGHTH,
Celebrated on the eleventh day of the month of March, 1547.
DECREE CONCERNING THE TRANSLATION OF THE COUNCIL.
Doth it please you to decree and declare that, from the aforesaid and other allegations, it is so plainly and notoriously certain, respecting a disease of the kind stated, that the prelates cannot without danger of their lives remain in this city, and that therefore they cannot and ought not against their wills to be detained therein. And considering also the withdrawal of many prelates since the session last held, and considering the protests made in the general congregations by very many other prelates, wishing by all means to depart hence through fear of the said disease, who cannot justly be detained, and by whose departure the council would either be dissolved, or, from the small number of the prelates, its beneficial progress would be hindered; and, considering also
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