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

knowingly with them have incurred the same ecclesiastical censures; and what is the law regarding those who in Constance knowingly received orders from those putative bishops of the interdicted Batutensian and Sebastian churches.

¶ Sixth: Whether the executions of the apostolic letters made at the doors of the Church of Constance and in other places bind the subjects just as if each one of them had been personally warned and required.

¶ Regarding the first, I say that the reservation and provision about which inquiry is made above were valid. Because there is no one greater in the collation of ecclesiastical benefices and dignities than the Pope, for the plenary disposition of all benefices, dignities, and churches pertains to him. Thus, not only when they are vacant can he confer them by law, but he can also grant the right to them when they are about to become vacant (Book VI of the Decretals, chapter ii two, de prebendis on prebends; chapter relatum, de prebendis; chapter eam te, de rescriptis; and the notes of the Rota in the new decisions, iii, citing many laws for this). And it is a special prerogative of the Pope, in whom is the fullness of power (plenitudo potestatis fullness of power), as in the chapter proposuit, de auc. et usu pal. on the authority and use of the pallium, at honorem, Case 2, Question 6 of the Decree. Therefore, by this power, he can draw everything to himself, according to his will (Case 9, last Question, pater; and chapter ipsi sunt; and chapter cuncta per mundum; and the Digest, nunc vero). ¶ And since he revokes any business to himself, no one may interfere with it without his permission (de prebendis, among others, lite pendent; chapter ecclesia, ii; chapter multum, super, Case 3, Question 6, ad nostrum, de appellationibus; noted by the Archdeacon in the final chapter, de consuetudine, Book VI; and Innocent in the chapter inter dilectos, de excessibus prelatorum). Similarly, when the Pope specially reserves the disposition of a church to himself, no one can usurp authority for himself without his express commission (Distinction 17, huic sedi; de officio legati, quod translationem; chapter si eo tempore, de electionibus, Book VI). Nor is it a wonder, because he is the successor of the blessed Peter and the vicar of Christ, bearing the place not of a mere man but of the true God on earth (chapter Inter corporalia, primo; de Romano; chapter quanto; and chapter licet, de translatione prelatorum; chapter ut nostrum, de ecclesia beneficiis, Distinction 21, chapter i; pro homici, pro humani, Book VI, Case 24, Question 1, quam vetus). Therefore he manages, disposes, and judges all things as it pleases him (Case 9, Question 3, cuncta; and chapter per principale, Case 2, Question 6, ideo). ¶ And although every Bishop is a vicar of Christ regarding certain things (Case 34, Question 5, ut; and de sacra unctione, chapter unico, ad exhibendum, caput igitur, etc.), yet bishops are called not to the fullness of power but to a part of the solicitude, as in the said chapter ad honorem, de auctoritate et usu pallii, and chapter decreto, and chapter qui se scit, Case 2, Question 6. And provided he does not act against the Catholic faith, he can in all things and through all things do and say whatever pleases him, even taking away one's right in ecclesiastical matters to whom he wishes, because there is no one who may say to him "Why do you do so?" (Distinction 19, in memoria; de penitentia, Distinction 3, ex persona, etc., it begins, chapter quis nam, for with him is the ratio of will, as in de prebendis, proposuit).