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...that you publicly announce him as excommunicated on every office day, with candles lit and bells rung, from the pulpits. Given, etc. ¶ Furthermore, if he still does not care to obey and to seek absolution, another mandate is directed in this form as follows:
Greetings in the Lord. Although we have previously excommunicated such a one for contumacy, with a sentence of aggravation following at the instance of such a one, he nevertheless rashly sustains such sentences with a hardened mind. Wherefore we command you that you publicly announce him as excommunicated and aggravated as before, inhibiting all and singular of your parishioners that they do not participate with the same person so excommunicated by buying, selling, or administering salt, water, fire, food, or drink, or otherwise in any kind of prohibited communion, in whatever way you may do, etc., or thus: that those who wish to flee to our canonical action may publicly announce the sentence of minor excommunication, by which they are bound for this reason, or thus: otherwise we will proceed against them by the sentence of execution or other penalties as may be just. And it is to be known that those who participate with the excommunicated person regularly incur the minor sentence, since it is venial, etc., concerning which see the chapter Cum sacris With holy things, quod me which to me, cause, and there fully by Joannes Andreae in the commentary. There are, however, some privileged persons who may participate with the excommunicated person. Concerning which see the chapter Quam multos How many, 11, q. 3, and in certain cases it is even permitted to them to communicate through other persons. Concerning which see the chapter Si vere If truly, concerning the sentence of excommunication, with concordances. And although those who participate even before the judge's inhibition incur the minor one, nevertheless this inhibition is made because it is usually feared more when it is specifically enjoined than when it is commanded generally. Also, from this, a greater contempt is purged because it is done or made against the prohibitions of the judge, as noted in the chapter Allegatis sacris Alleged holy things. However, those participating with the excommunicated person cannot be excommunicated by the greater excommunication for this reason unless they are first noted and expressly warned, as according to the form and disposition of the chapter Constitutionem Constitution, concerning the sentence of excommunication, book VI. Afterwards, if he cannot be recalled from his contumacy, it is permitted to the judge [to order] a cessation from divine services, which will be present for as long as he is excommunicated, and also that this warning should precede, because a warning ought to precede every punishment, 12, q. 2, Indigne Unworthily. And they are written by the ordinary under this form:
Because such a one, previously bound by us with a sentence of excommunication for contumacy at the instance of such a one, with diverse aggravations following, and he in [status] A sustains these sentences and penalties rashly and wallows in them with an obstinate mind, whence, his contumacy demanding it, we are compelled to aggravate him more or we must proceed more rigidly against him. Therefore we command you that you publicly warn, through the consuls and elders of the town of such, or the sworn men and powers of such village, that within eight or fifteen days they cast out and exclude the aforesaid excommunicated person from their society, participation, and communion, or insofar as it is in them, induce him so that he returns to the bosom of the Holy Mother Church, obeys the law before us, and cares to obtain the benefit of absolution. Otherwise, for as long and as often as the same excommunicated person is present in your church or its boundaries, has remained, or has had a home or residence, you shall cease and cause others to cease from the office of divine services, whom we thus suspend in the name of the matter in these writings. Given, etc.
a general interdict cannot be made, as in the Extravagantes of Boniface VIII. And whether a cessation is considered general or special, Johannes Calderinus treats [this] in his work concerning citation, in the treatise on ecclesiastical censure, near the end. And in the aforesaid form the elders of the place are warned, because by the sentence of this kind through which the cessation is induced, even they themselves are punished. But