fifteen days—which God forbid—they shall have cohabited together, such people shall be excluded from the ecclesiastical sacraments in their lifetime, and after death, unless they have done penance for their commissions, they shall lack ecclesiastical burial; and nevertheless, they shall be remitted to us or our vicar for the seeking of the benefit of absolution. Those rectors, parish priests, and curates themselves who have neglected to admonish them should not doubt that they await canonical vengeance from us or our vicar, to whom also, under a similar threat, we enjoin more strictly that they denounce the names of the same rebels to us or our vicar within another fifteen days so that we may be able to proceed against them to further measures.

Concerning robbers

We wish robbers of the highways and other plunderers who despoil those passing on public roads and highways—widows, orphans, and other persons, especially ecclesiastical ones—of their goods, because their violence induces the disturbance of the desired peace, to be mulcted with the penalty of our striking sword of correction, so that both they and those receiving them, and knowingly giving them help or favor, shall be ipso facto bound by the bond of anathema excommunication. We wish this statute indeed to be published every year on each of the four principal feasts if a sermon is made on that same day, otherwise on the day following, when the first sermon of the Lord is made, in all the churches of our city and diocese, from the chancels.

Concerning usurers

It is sufficiently known that usurious acts are reprobated by divine and human law; and for those exercising usury against the law, the most recent constitution of the Council of Lyons the Second Council of Lyons, 1274 established exquisite penalties. But because, with a new sought-after color of enjoyment, some exercise usury under the title of sale—who, when they lend money, give goods with the understanding that on a set day they will receive crops perhaps in double value, which they then sell for more money; some also, by buying a thing for a certain quantity left to the seller, resell it at a set time for an increased number/quantity of usury—opposing these frauds, we prohibit any from absolving a public usurer or receiving him for ecclesiastical burial unless caution has been provided for the restitution of everything according to the apostolic constitution made in the Council of Lyons, which is held on usury, Book 6 Sextus Decretalium, Book 5, Title 5, Chapter 1. Which constitution, written below, we command to be read publicly in all parochial churches every year by the one having the care of souls—once, namely, on the Sunday of Lent on which is sung "Judica" the fifth Sunday of Lent, Passion Sunday, etc.—solemnly. But lest the aforesaid constitution be unknown to anyone, we wish it to be inserted here word for word, as follows:

"Although manifest usurers may have commanded in their last will that restitution be made for the usury they have received, either by an express quantity or indistinctly, nonetheless, ecclesiastical burial shall be denied to them unless full restitution has been made for those usuries themselves as their means allow, or to those to whom restitution is to be made if they are present, or others who can acquire for them, or, if they are absent, to the local ordinary or his deputy, or the rector of the parish in which the testator lives, before some trustworthy men of that same parish, to which ordinary, vicar, or rector aforesaid, it may be lawful by the authority of the present constitution to receive such caution in their name, so that an action may be acquired thereby as if the matter had been handled in a public sermon by the mandate of the ordinary himself..."