The Judgment of the Judge

...attached to the aforementioned book, brought forward, accepted, examined, and questioned according to duty. They swore an oath and were permitted to swear that, once inspected, they should see and hear how it was commanded that the book be published and brought into public form, and that the authority and decree of the said court be applied to it. They were also to state and show cause, if they had a lawful and honest one, why what preceded should not happen. Through our writing and public court, in a public hearing regarding the aforementioned letter of our Lord Pope, as is customary, we commanded them to be summoned. We had them summoned to a certain, final, and convenient date, namely to the day and hour recorded below.

On which day and hour, the aforementioned brothers Magnus and Olavus appeared in court before us. The said clerk of the summons carried out his duty in the said hearing in the proper manner, and also physically and in writing pointed out and brought forward those who were summoned and included therein but did not appear, nor did they care to satisfy the appointed term. He accused them of disobedience and argued they should be held as disobedient. Against their disobedience, he displayed the aforementioned book, writing or hand, and seal. Indeed, he also brought forward several trustworthy, prominent, and orderly witnesses regarding the inspection of the writing or hand and such seal. He requested with due insistence that they be accepted and permitted by us, that their oath and the testimony of each regarding what preceded be recognized as good, that they be examined and questioned regarding the aforementioned inspection, and that it be commanded that the book be published and brought into public form, with our usual and judicial decree and the authority of the said court applied by us.

We, Ludwig, the aforementioned Lieutenant, then rightly held the aforementioned summoned parties as disobedient because they did not appear nor cared to satisfy the appointed term, as they were indeed disobedient by virtue of justice. Against their disobedience, we judicially accepted and permitted the aforementioned witnesses regarding the inspection of the writing or hand and such seal. And when the writing or hand and such seal were displayed, and seen and diligently inspected by them the witnesses and each of them one after another, and they were examined and earnestly questioned by us concerning the recognition of the aforementioned writing or hand and seal, by means of the oath they had previously taken, they said one after another, and each one of them said—with each of them touching the Holy Scriptures at the Holy Gospel of God bodily in our hands at our command—that they

know the writing or hand and such seal well. They testified it belongs to the one it is said to belong to, namely the Most Reverend Father in Christ, Lord Johannes, by God’s mercy of the Title of Saint Mary across the Tiber original: "S. Mariæ jenseit der Tyber", referring to the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere, formerly of Saint Sixtus, commonly called Cardinal of Turrecremata, Priest of the Roman Church.

Now that this has been completed orderly and according to the law, we, Ludwig, the aforementioned Lieutenant, have found the aforementioned book to be signed by the aforementioned Most Reverend Lord Cardinal Johannes with his own hand, and truly signed, and protected with his seal hanging from the same book to preserve what is contained therein. We have also recognized the aforementioned writing, or hand and seal, in the manner that precedes, taken them into our hands, seen, held, and diligently inspected them. We found them whole, uninjured, complete, and not defective, nor suspicious in any part, but saw them without any defect or suspicion, and held them as recognized, and willed that they be held as such.

Therefore, so that all and each of the things enumerated above occurred and were held so orderly and according to the law in the mentioned court before us, and so that full, firm faith may be accorded to the said writing or hand and seal, as well as to the book and all that is contained therein in all places and ends, we have applied the judicial and customary power and decree of our and the said Court of the Apostolic Chamber of Legal Affairs original: "Apostolischen Rechtshandel-Cammer", and we apply it herewith by virtue of this document. As a protection and testimony of all that precedes, we thereafter commanded and had this letter, or this public document, issued, and had it published and brought into this public form by the prudent man Master Johannes of Castello, public notary and the subscribed scribe of our and the said Court of the Apostolic Chamber of Legal Affairs. We also commanded that it, and the entire book described above, be secured with the attached seal of the said Court of the Apostolic Chamber of Legal Affairs of our Chamberlain’s office, which we administer, out of certain knowledge.

Given and done at Rome at Saint Peter’s in the Apostolic Palace of Justice, where justice is customarily administered, as we sat there early in the morning at the usual hour for legal affairs to administer justice and hear legal cases at our customary and usual place on the judge's seat, in the year after the Birth of Christ 1446. The ninth period of fifteen years, on Wednesday the 29th day of the month of March, in the sixteenth year of the Papacy of our Most Holy Father and Lord in Christ, Lord Pope Eugenius the Fourth, in the presence there of the prudent men Lord Cubellus Millis, Dean of Teano, and Americus, a cleric of Angers.