The Eighth Session, Celebrated the Eleventh day of March, M.D.XLVII.
A Decree concerning the Removing the Council.
DOes it please you to determine and declare concerning a Disease of this Na∣ture, which appears so plainly and notoriously from the Premises and o∣ther things alledged, that the Prelates being in great hazard of their Lives in the City, ought not therefore, nor cannot in any wise be detain'd therein longer than they please; as likewise that by the careful Retirement of many Prelates after the very last Sessions, and by the earnest protestations of a great many more, made in the General Assemblies, who are willing to be gone hence for fear altogether of the said Disease, who cannot justly be detained, and by whose departure the Council would be dissolv'd, or by the Fewness of their number the good progress thereof would be hinder'd; and regarding likewise the immi∣nent danger of Life, and other causes alledged by some of the Fathers in the ve∣ry Assemblies, as being most notoriously true and lawful: Does it please you likewise to decree and declare, for the Preservation and Prosecution of the said Council, and for the Security of the Prelates that it be transferr'd, and from this time be transferr'd to the City of Bononia, as being a place better provided, more wholsome and fit; and there the before-appointed Session to be Celebrated on the fore appointed 21st day of April; and there to proceed successively to what remains, until it shall seem expedient to our most holy Master, and this Sacred Council, together with the Advice of the most invincible Caesar, the most Christi∣an King, and other Kings and Christian Princes, that it may and ought to be brought back to this or some other place. They Answer, It pleaseth us.