...and diocese, at the times of divine service, shall not approach or enter the churches in which they are beneficed without surplices. Those doing the contrary shall lack their prebendal stipends for the space of three days for each time, to be converted to the uses of the church fabric. We also wish them to show due reverence to the deans, rectors, parish priests, and others in the superior churches, under our grave indignation and the penalty expressed above.

Concerning the cohabitation of clerics and women

The holy general synod of Basel, intending the reformation of the clerical state, among other things, issued a wholesome constitution against concubinary clerics, to be published and executed by the ordinaries of the places, the ignorance of which constitution no one of our clergy may be able to pretend. We wish it to be inserted in these presents with our other statutes, to be published, and to be strictly observed. The tenor of which follows and is as follows:

"The sacred holy general synod of Basel, lawfully congregated in the Holy Spirit, representing the universal church. For a perpetual memory of the matter. Any cleric of whatever status, condition, religion, or dignity, even if he exists in pontifical or other preeminence, who, after the notice of this constitution (which he is presumed to have two months after its publication in the cathedral churches, which the diocesans themselves are entirely bound to make), after the same constitution has reached his notice, is a public concubinary, shall be suspended by that very fact for the space of three months from the perception of the fruits of all his benefits. His superior shall convert these into the fabric or other evident utility of the churches from which these fruits are perceived. Furthermore, as soon as it becomes known that such a public concubinary is such, his superior shall be bound to move him so that he may dismiss the concubine within a very short term. If he does not dismiss her, or publicly reassumes another, this holy synod wills that he be entirely deprived of all his benefits. And nevertheless, these public concubinaries, until they have been dispensed by their superiors after the dismissal of the same concubines and a manifest amendment of life, shall be inhabile to the reception of any honors, dignities, and benefits. If, after a dispensation, they return to the vomit allusion to Proverbs 26:11: as a dog returns to his vomit of such public concubinage, they shall be altogether inhabile to the aforementioned without hope of another dispensation. And if those to whom the correction of such persons pertains neglect to punish them as is predicted, their superiors shall advert to worthy punishment in every way, both against them regarding the neglect and against others regarding the concubinage. In provincial councils also, proceedings shall be taken severely against such [superiors] who neglect to punish or those who are defamed of this crime, even by suspension, deprivation, or collation of benefits, or other condign penalty. And if those whose destitution pertains to the Supreme Pontiff are found by provincial councils or their superiors to be deprived of dignities due to public concubinage, they shall be deferred to the Supreme Pontiff himself with the process of the inquisition. The same diligence and inquisition shall be observed in any general and provincial chapters regarding their own members, with other penalties established against the aforementioned and other public concubinaries remaining in their full strength. But public concubinaries are to be understood not only as those whose concubinage is notorious by sentence or confession made in law or by the evidence of the thing which can be hidden by no tergiversation, but [also] those who keep a woman suspected of and defamed for incontinency and, having been warned by their superior, do not dismiss her effectively. Because in truth, in some regions, not a few having ecclesiastical jurisdiction [exacted] pecuniary gains from concubinaries..."