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The following copy of the Taxb Sacbb
Pkmtkxtiarie Afostolice is a Quarto of four
folia^ or eight pages, in Gothic letter, and
printed apparently by Marcellns Franck, or
some other Roman and authorised printer^ by
authority of Lbo X. My reasons for dus opin-
ion are, the appearance of the type; the fact,
that no originals of this production appear to
have been issued after the pontificate of Leo;
and the company in which my document is
found. It is in a volume of collected pieces
which I purchased about the year 1825, of
Messrs. Longman and Co. The volume, by a
printed paper on the first title page, appears to
have belonged to the Library of the Catliedi'al
of Toumay. The first piece is Liber cure pas-
toralis divi Gregorii, &c* 1498; the second^
Ordin. Syn. Senoneas, 1524. Then follow
more official papal tracts— Modus servandus,
&c,; Termini Causarum, &c.; then the Tax£;;
ChnrtianH^ is no longer under their protection^FhiteitantiiBm
is at the mercy of Popety.
The number of the euopHOi, adverted to above, may be
swelled, but their individual guilt is not diluted by the union in
vote of those, who, by extreme couxte»y, must {>a88 iQx pro*
testantfi— jes, /or pratetianis I
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