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But the supreme and immortal God, that omnipotent administrator of all things, by whose rule and power all Kings maintain their seats and kingdoms, and by whose lightest breath all treasons and impious attempts are dissipated, took his most humble ancilla handmaiden/servant into his protection. Because of her proven character, and because she honored the sacred name of her God with true worship on earth, He gave her two guards to fortify herself: prudence and authority. By the former, she might, with obstacles removed, vigilantly defend herself and her safety. By the latter, having taken vengeance on her enemies, she might learn to reign in the preservation of her own life. And so, having dispatched messengers into the innermost parts of the kingdom, she drew from their hiding places certain sowers of sedition, whom she brought to the tribunal—which is the final sweeping-out of all wicked deeds—and there, with just charges and in a full assembly, she accused them. Not of religion, not of conscience, not of the Pontifical Monarchy—as is more often rumored than true—but of læsa maiestas injured majesty/high treason and impious betrayal. And this was done according to ancient statutes and laws, enacted more than two hundred years ago in the times of Edward III, when the authority of the Roman Pontiff flourished among us no less than in other Christian kingdoms, as is clearly contained in the records of judgment and the formulas of the courts.
Sowers of sedition from the seminaries are captured, found guilty of treason, and punished with death according to the ancient laws of the kingdom.