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ever, has nothing, as I can discover, relative to doctrine, but is simply an excommunication and anathema emitted against certain invaders of secular property, and to be denounced annually. But I can speak with certainty as to the bull in its present form (having the documents), that one, in substance the same, was issued by Sixtus IV. 1476, 3. Id. April. One by Julius II. followed; another by Leo X.; another by Adrian VI. (the two latter of which I have). Perhaps no succeeding pontiff failed in sending forth one of his own. Repetitions, for substance, that is, with alterations of no great extent, suited to times and circumstances, are publicly extant to the sixth year of the pontificate of Clemens XIII., who published one a.d. 1764, May 20. He had done the same before in 1759. In fact, Barberi, in the Bullarium, now in course of publication in Rome, has given the bull at length only in the first instance.[1] For prudential, or other reasons (it is of no importance what, but in all probability the same as induced the suppression of the Jesuits), Clement XIV. discontinued the annual publication
- ↑ See Bull. Rom. tom. II. 461, and I. 116. In the Appendix ad Synod Tusc. of the Card. Duke or York, Rome, 1764, the bull is transcribed at length in its last form.
