Oratio lamentabilis ... Iohannes Savageti Constantiensis et Basiliensis ... super turbatione dicte ecclesie Constantiensis ... una cum tractatu per eum, edito sex dubiis iuris clauso ... Per que evidens iustitia ... Ludovici de Freiberg ... confirmati episcopi ac iniustitia Ottonis de Sunnenberg ... declaratur et ostenditur

...imposed [upon the region]. Some were compelled, while others voluntarily violated it, incurring the mark of irregularity. And to speak briefly, most iniquitously disturbing ecclesiastical unity and its peace, and transgressing in all things the precepts of the canons by which ecclesiastical discipline is governed, they stirred up schism and heresy. Having broken away from apostolic obedience, they overturned the ecclesiastical state, subjected ecclesiastical liberty to the servitude of secular [powers], and, what is more intolerable, they strove to attack the fortress of the apostolic summit as if it were not founded upon the firm rock. For when they detracted from apostolic authority, they caused it to be prohibited by public edict that anyone should obey apostolic mandates, only imperial ones. And that in all things, the will and judgment of the Imperial Majesty should be heeded, and not [the will and judgment] of Your Holiness. Furthermore, no regard was to be held for the ecclesiastical censures laid by Your Holiness. O, the impiety! By such madness they attempted to usurp the bishopric of the said church against the careful and just disposition of Your Holiness, wishing to prevail in their iniquities. And when these perverse men, more ferocious than any beast, could not prevail by their own power—God resisting them—in preventing the aforementioned confirmed Lord from subjecting three-quarters of the Constance diocese to his obedience through his supreme vigils, cares, labors, and expenses, and when they perceived his adherence increasing daily, they took counsel together against the Lord and against His Christ, as to by what means they could divert the people from his obedience. Having decided this, the said Otto approached the most clement Emperor and extorted certain horrible mandates through certain false surreptitions, by which the illustrious Emperor, claiming ecclesiastical authority for himself, ordered that obedience be rendered to the said Otto as the true elected bishop of the said church under the gravest penalties, decreeing his pretended election to be just and canonical, and that the confirmed Lord had no right [to the office]. By pretext of these, the said Otto ceaselessly harassed and oppressed the just, wishing them to perish. For those who, by the precept of Your Holiness, adhered to the aforementioned confirmed Lord and refused to obey such imperial mandates or to adhere to the said Otto, were soon expelled from their benefices and homes, spoiled of their goods and property, denied sustenance, bound by imperial ban, and pursued everywhere as enemies of the empire, except in the lands of the illustrious prince the Duke of Austria and the illustrious Archduchess of Austria, and the magnificent Lords Udalric and Erhard of Biertenberg, Counts, the Marquess of Baden, the Marquess of Rotlin, the Counts of Furstenberg, as well as the lands of the Bernese and Solothurnian communities. In which [territories], the most secure protection was open to those adhering to the confirmed Lord.