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

Next, the Imperial Majesty, having been circumvented by the adversaries—who said the provision of Lord Ludovic was null and invalid, and that it was contrary to the concordats of the German nation, though the truth was to the contrary, because the case of the first provision was not encompassed under the concordats, and the second provision was made after the pretended election of Otto was examined, found null, and declared so according to the tenor of the concordats, as I have demonstrated clearly in my treatise edited on these matters—entrusted his authorities to a certain Rudolph of Papenheim, as Imperial Marshal, to be executed for the further savage persecution of the just. He, acting powerfully in all things and acting not sluggishly in his position, revoked from [the Lord's] obedience all those adhering to the confirmed Lord through the invasion of persons, the pillaging and confiscation of goods, and the spoliation of benefices, and compelled them to adhere to the said Otto, until the Venerable and Distinguished Lord Johannes Aloisius, orator of Your Holiness destined for those parts, with truthful information and a certain concord—which was too burdensome and damaging to the confirmed Lord and his adherents—mitigated the mind of the Serenissime Lord Emperor, which the adversaries did not care to follow or observe. These and many other burdens of loss have the obedient subjects of Your Holiness endured, and still endure, for their faithful obedience. Also, it is not permitted to pass over in silence that those pseudo-Bishops of the churches of Baruthen [Bayreuth] and Sebasten—Caspar and Burchard—who, as they ought to have stood as a wall of defense for the Roman Church during the time of tribulation, should have approved what the Apostolic See approved and reprobated what it reprobated, instead, having only the names of Bishops and struck by the plague of avarice, and unmindful of their own salvation, reprobated Lord Ludovic whom Your Holiness approved, and approved the reprobated Otto, and voluntarily adhered to him and his accomplices. And what is more, or rather what is worse, they presumed to exercise the Episcopal office in the Church of Constance, [even though it was] placed under interdict, to celebrate orders, to consecrate and administer the sacraments, and to perform the other ministries of the Episcopal dignity.