[Constitutiones synodales ecclesiae Constantiensis, 1481]

...written and duly sealed. But we suspend the rectors and parish priests of the churches, if they have subsequently perpetrated the aforementioned or even if they have presumed to perform such things before [the sentence] was written, for an entire month from entry into the church, reserving the fruits of their churches for that same time to those fulfilling the same offices and providing for the subjects.

Concerning the life and honesty of clerics

By the present edict, which is to last inviolably, we prohibit that henceforth any cleric constituted in holy orders or beneficed within our city and diocese should publicly sell wine under measure, serving dishes, mattresses, and hospitality in the manner of a public innkeeper, or exercise the business of a merchant in the manner of laymen—such as buying salable things more loosely for the sake of profit in order to sell them more dearly—or presume in any way to trade illicitly through himself or an interposed person. But if anyone presumes to do such things and does not desist from such businesses, we decree that the profit captured therefrom shall be applied to our treasury and that he shall be punished otherwise more gravely according to the quality of the excess.

On the same matter

Since it is very inequitable and of the worst example that at the time when divine offices are being celebrated, canons and other clerics deputed to divine worship—who ought to attend most devotedly to the psalms—should instead have conversations and other colloquies among themselves not pertaining in the least to divine worship, we decree and ordain that canons and clerics who have such colloquies or conversations among themselves in the choir during the time of divine service shall be irremissibly suspended for one day from their presence and from the bodies of their prebends or benefits, and shall be punished otherwise at the discretion of the dean or the one to whom their correction pertains, who, if they are negligent in such correction, shall know themselves to be subject to the same penalty.

Furthermore, we inhibit that henceforth canons or clerics during the time of divine service should presume to walk or wander about the church with laymen or other clerics. And if they do the contrary, they shall irremissibly lack their presence and the bodies of their prebends and benefits for one day, and shall be punished otherwise at the discretion of the dean or the one to whom their correction pertains, who, if they are negligent in such correction, shall know themselves to be subject to the same penalty in like manner.

On the same matter

Since this constitution is also known to have been sanctioned in the provincial council of the late lord Conrad, Archbishop of Mainz, we wish, command, and ordain that the clerics of our city and diocese, in the cities and towns, especially in the churches, shall wear long vestments decent for the clerical state and not lined with vair fur or silk, unless he is a graduate or a canon of the greater church of Constance or is a noble; they shall not wear silk on the outside, nor fur-trimmed or divided [vestments], nor on top...