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antient and original document. Bat the reader
will have the opportunity of judging for him-
self.
The other section bears the title^ Summa-
rium literarum expediendarum per officium
sacre penitentiarie apostoUce. It contains
matter somewhat similar to that in ihe preced-
ing section, and' closes with the title, Absolu-
tio de homicidiis. And here is the proper place
for the observation, that the absence in these
Taxce, of the more offensive articles to be found
in the First Class, can only entitle them to the
diminished reprobation of not being so bad as
the worst, and of being more reserved, only be-
cause shame and exposure had made caution
more necessary. But indeed, what crime can
be imagined, which may not be comprehended
within the boundless circumference of*-»et alia
mala commisit ?
It may just be repeated, that the Parisian
edition is exactly copied in the Oceanus Juris,
but^ which is to be regretted^ without any in-
troductory matter, and that BancVs edition
entirely, and du Mont's in the parts which
have been specified, represent the same. As
relates to Banck's, it would have been very
desirable^ had he followed any one specified
