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be proper to observe, that as every new Pope
claimed the right of enactmg new jReguis,
Constitutiones, &c. so it is very far from impro-
bable he might afiusame the hbeity of altering
die Tarn*
Of the contents of the subsequent editions
to ihat of Leo. X. I must likewise profess mj
ignorance : but of Leo's the reprint of S. du
Mont wables ns to form a judgement. Whe-
ther the order of the two portions, of which it
ionsiets^ be isverted or not, is of little impor*
tance. One has the title Taxae Cancellariae
Apostolical indpiunt ; the other that of Tax®
SacrsB pcenitentiarise Apostolicae incipiunt. The
orthography is probably modernized as to the
diphthongs. These two kinds of Taxae, how-
ever, as here exhibited, appearing to be found
in the more copious one of Paris, in 1520,—
they certainly agree in all the articles of im-
portance, and, as far as a very careful compa-
rison win warrant the conclusion, appear to do
so tluxmghoat— it will answer the same purpose,
and in other respects will be more satis&ctory,
- That this was the case is very evident, from an inspcctioii
of the Rogule, &c. of Innoc VIII. printed at Paris, 1499; poi^ ticularlj from the Prohemimn, and ftom the last Regula, con- taining BevoottdgQS of pimding cmes. See likewiie fiuUer.
