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Cases Papale, to the number of one and fiftie, wherin the Pope hath power onely to dispense and none els besides, except by speci∣all licence from hym.
- FIrst, the determination of doubts and questi∣ons belōging to faith.
- Translation of a bishop electe, or confirmed: Likewise of Abbots exempted.
- Deposition of Bishops.
- The taking of resigna∣tion of Bishops.
- Exemptions of Bishops, not to be vnder Arch∣byshops.
- Restitution of such as be deposed from theyr or∣der.
- The iudiciall definition, or interpretation of his owne priueledges.
- Chaunging of Byshoprickes, or dimission of Couentes. &c.
- New correction of Bishops seates, or institutiō of new Religions.
- Subiection or diuision of one Byshopricke vn∣der an other.
- Dispensation for vowing to go to the holy land.
- Dispensation for the vow of chastitie, or of Re∣ligion, or of holy orders.
- Dispensation agaynst a lawfull othe, or vowe made.
- Dispensation agaynst diuers irregularities, as in crimes greater then adultery, and in suche as be suspended for Symonie.
- Dispensation in receiuing into orders hym that had two wiues.
- Dispensing with suche as beeing within or∣ders, do that which is aboue theyr order, as if a Deacon shoulde say masse, beyng not yet Priest.
- To receaue into orders such as be blemished or maymed in body.
- Dispesation with murther, or with suche, as willingly cut of any member of mans body.
- Dispēsation to geue orders to such as haue bene vnder the sentence of the greater curse or ex∣communication.
- Dispensation with suche as being vnlawfully borne, to receiue orders, or benefices.
- Dispensation for pluralities of benefices.
- Dispensation to make a man Byshop before he be thirty yeare olde.
- Dispensation to geue orders vnder age.
- The Pope onely hath power to make and call a generall Councell.
- The Pope onely hath power to depriue an Ec∣clesiastical person, and geue away his benefice being not vacant.
- The Pope alone is able to absolue hym that is excommunicate by name.
- The Pope onely is able to absolue him whome his Legate doth excommunicate.
- The Pope both iudgeth in the causes of them that appeale vnto hym, and where he iudgeth none may appeale from him.
- Onely he hath authoritie to make Deacon, and Priest, whom he made subdeacon, eyther vp∣on Sondayes, or vpon other feastes.
- Onely the Pope, and none els, at all times and in all places wheareth the passe.
- The Pope onely dispenseth with a man, eyther being not within orders, or being vnworthy to be made Bishop.
- He onely eyther confirmeth, or deposeth the Em¦perour when he is chosen.
- A man being excommunicate, and his absolutiō referred to the Pope, none may absolue that man but the pope alone.
- The same hath authoritie in any electiō, before it be made, to pronounce it none whē it is made,
- He doth Canonise Saintes, and none cls but he.
- Dispensation to haue many dignities and persona∣ges in one Church, and without charge and cure of soule, belongeth onely to the Pope.
- To make that effectuall whiche is of no effect, and contrariwise, belongeth onely to the Pope.
- To plucke a monke out of his cloyster both against his owne will and the Abbattes, pertaineth one∣ly to the Pope.
- His sentence maketh a law.
- The same day in whiche the pope is consecrate, he may geue orders.
- He dispenseth in degrees of consanguinitie and af∣finitie.
- He is able to abolishe lawes, quoad vtrum{que} forum, that is, both Ciuill and Canon, where daunger is of the soule.
- It is in his dispensation to geue generall indulgen¦ces to certayne places or persons.
- Item to legitimate what persons soeuer he please, as touching spiritualties: in all places, as tou∣chinge temporalties, as honoures, inheri∣taunce, &c.
- To erect new religions, to approoue or reproue rules, or ordinaunces, and Ceremonies in the Church.
- He is able to dispense with all the preceptes and statutes of the Church.
- Item, to dispense and to discharge any subiect from ye bond of allegeance or oth made to any maner person.
- No man may accuse hym of any crime, vnlesse of heresie, & that neyther, except he be incorrigible.
- The same is also free from all lawes, so that he cannot in∣curre into any sentence of excommunication, suspension, irregularitie, or into the penaltie of any crime, but into the note of crime he may well.
- Finally he by hys dispensation may graunt, yea to a sim∣ple priest, to minister the sacrament of confirmation to infants: also to geue lower orders, and to hallow chur∣ches and virgines, &c.
These be the cases wherein I onely haue power to dispēse, and no man els, neyther Byshop, nor Metropolitane, nor Legate, without a licence from me.
¶ After that I haue nowe sufficiently declared my po∣wer in earth, in heauen, and in purgatory, howe great it is & what is the fulnes thereof, in binding loosing, comman∣ding, permitting electing, confirming deposing, dispen∣sing, doyng, and vndoing &c. I will entreat now a litle of my riches likewise and great possessions, that enerye man may see by my wealth and aboundaunce of all thynges, rentes, tythes, tributes, my silkes, my purple Miters, Crowns, Golde, Siluer, Perles and Gemmes, Landes, and Lordships, how God here prospereth and magnifieth hys Vicare in the earth. For to me pertayneth first the Imperiall Cittie of Rome, the Pallace of Laterane the kingdome of Cicile is proper to me, Apulia, Capua be myne. Also ye kingdome of England and Ireland, be they not or ought to be tributaryes to me? 214. To these I ad∣ioyne also, besides other prouinces and countryes both in the Occident and Orient, from the North to the South, these dominions by name. 215. as Surrianum, Mōtembordō, & lunae in sulam, Corficae regnum, Paruam Mantuam, Montense∣lete, Insulam venetiarum, Ducatum Ferrariae, Canellum, Canio∣dam, Ducatum Histriae Dalmatiam, Ex archatum Rauennae, Fa∣uentiam, Cesenam, Castrum, Tiberiatus Roccam Mediolanum, Castrum, ceperianum, Castrum Casianum, Terram Cornulariam, Ducatum Arimini, Contam, Montem ferretum, Montem Capinie feu Olympicum, Gastrum exforij. Robin, Eugubin, Vrbin, forum Sempronij, Galli, & Senogalli, Anconam, Gosam, Ducatum pe∣rusij, Vrbenetam, & Tudertum, Castrum Sinianum, Ducatum Spo¦letanum, Theanū, Calabriam, Ducatum Neapolim, Ducatū Bene∣uenti, Selernum, Sorrenti insulam, Cardiniam insulam, Anciae in∣sulam, Territorium Cutisan, Territorium praenestinum, Terram Silandis, Terram Clusium, Terram fundan, Terram vegetan, Ter∣ram Gland ••nam, ••erram comis••••n, Terram Fabinensem, Ter∣ram Siram, Terram portuensem, cuminsula Archis, Terram Osti∣ensem cum maritimis, Ciuitatem Aquinensem, Ciuitatem lamen¦tum, & Sufforariam, Ciuitatem Falisenam, Fidenam, Feretrum, Cliternam, Neapolim, Galiopolim, with diuers other mo. 216. which Constantinus the Emperour gaue vnto me, not yt they were not mine before he did geue them. 217. For in that I tooke them of hym, I tooke them not as a gifte (as is afore mentioned) but as a restitution. And that I rende∣red them agayn to Otho, I did it not for any duety to him but onely for peace sake. What should I speak here, of my dayly reuenues, of my first fruites, annates, palles, indul∣gences: