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Ordering repeatedly in these Bulls, and joining together with curses, he commands that all citizens of these kingdoms should defect from their Princess, spurning and scorning all observance, to which they were obligated as much by religious Sacraments and singular pledges of faith as by the law of nature and the very swaddling clothes of their birth. Likewise, he incites not only all the citizens of both kingdoms, who were living at home under their native roofs, without exception to this shameful defection—by this prodigious and clearly Antichristian mandate, repugnant to all laws both divine and human, and in no way consenting to that pastoral duty and office—but he also inflames that profligate woman who had slipped across the seas, who had escaped from the very flame of this civil war, and simultaneously all others who, whether before or after, had left their native seats for shameful causes: traitors, parricides, poisoners, spendthrifts, and also certain learned men who were factious at home, all of them resentful because they were not augmented with extraordinary dignities in public schools beyond their fortune and merits, certain wasted, broken, and lacerated merchants, and also some learned in sowing lawsuits and contentions, but in obedience and observance toward their fatherland and their Princess, they were quite