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there, having expressly referred to the Centum
Grayainina, he proceeds to say^ that all those
charges might be considered as the fiction of
the enemies of the Pope, were it not for a book
printed, and for some time publicly exposed to
sale at Paxis, entitled Tax® Cameras seu Can*
cellarise Apostolicse, in which more wickedness
may be learned than in all the summaries of all
vices, and in which are proposed licence of
sinning to most, and absolution to all who will
buy it He wonders tbat this in&mons and
jscandalous index of iniquity should be so far
from being suppressed by the friends and
rulers of the Roman church, that the licences
and impunities for such abominations, continue
to be renewed in the faculties granted to the
Legates from Rome of absolvhig and rendering
capable of ecclesiastical promotion all sorts,
and even the most atrocious, of criminals^ He
then calls upon Rome to blush, and cease any
longer to prostitute herself by the publication
of so infamous a catalogue.
[ I give the original at length below,* and
only remark, that it is evident from this pas-
- Qnue soaiidala ex GfaYUDiiubiis Gemuuiicii pawim col*
l^eta, 1, 2, fi, 8». 67, 74, 75^ 84, 91, 96. Hne, inquara, lucm turpia, odio Pontifids Bmnaiii ficta Bint, ai noD, quod ait et cooqueritur ille, velut
