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<P>THE POPES BVLL <HI>GELDED</HI> Or AN EDICT Publi&s;hed by the Duke and State <HI>of Venice, again&s;t the late Bull</HI> of Pope <HI>Paulus Quintus,</HI> the &s;ixth of May 1606. in the <HI>fourth Indiction.</HI></P>
<P>Truly Tran&s;lated out of the Italian Coppy, as appeareth in this <HI>Booke.</HI></P>
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<P>LONDON. Printed for <HI>Iohn Hardie,</HI> dwelling on Saint Peters Hill. 1606.</P>
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<OPENER><SIGNED>LEONARDO <HI>DONATO</HI> by the <HI>Grace of God Duke</HI> of Venice, &amp;c.</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To the mo&s;t Reuerend Patriarkes, Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, of all our Do|minions of <HI>Venice,</HI> &amp; to all Vicars Abbots, Priors, Rectors of Pari&s;h Churches, and other Prelates Eccle|&s;ia&s;ticall. <HI>Health.</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IT hath come to our know|ledge that the 17. of Aprill la&s;t pa&s;t by order of the mo&s;t Holy Father Pope <HI>Paule</HI> the fift, was publi&s;hed and af|fixed in <HI>Rome</HI> a certaine <HI>Bull</HI> thundred
<PB REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 38 -->out again&s;t vs, our Senate and Dominion, directed to you, of &s;uch Tenor and Con|tents as therein appeareth. VVhereupon finding our &s;elues bound to pre&s;erue in peace and Tranquillitie the State which God hath giuen vs to gouerne: and to maintaine the Authority of a Prince that in temporall affaires acknowledgeth no Su|perior vnder the diuine Maie&s;tie. VVe by the&s;e our publike letters prote&s;t before God, and to all the world, that we haue not failed to v&s;e all po&s;&s;ible meanes to make his Holine&s;&s;e capable of our mo&s;t &s;trong and in&s;oluble Rea&s;ons. Fir&s;t by our Amba&s;&s;ador Lieger with his Holine&s;&s;e: Then by our letters, re&s;pon&s;iue to Brei&s;es written by him; and finally by a &s;peciall Amba&s;&s;ador &s;ent for this verry purpo&s;e. But finding his holines eares &s;hut vnto vs, and &s;eeing the fore&s;aid <HI>Bull</HI> to haue beene publi&s;hed again&s;t the forme of all rea&s;on, and contrarie to that which the diuine Scriptures, the doctrine of holy Fathers, and the &s;acred Canons doe teach vs, in preiudice of the &s;ecular Authoritie giuen
<PB REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 38 -->vs from God, &amp; of the libertie of our State, with di&s;turbance of the quiet po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, which by Gods grace our faith full &s;ubiects vnder our gouernment hold of their goods, honors, and liues, with vniuer&s;all &amp; gree|uous &s;candall of all. VVe doubt not a whit to hold the fore&s;aid <HI>Bull,</HI> not only for vniu&s;t and vnlawfull, but al&s;o for anulled and of no value, and &s;o without force, fru|&s;trated, and vnlawfully thundred, <HI>De facto nullo Iuris ordine &s;eruato.</HI> Wherefore we haue reputed it conuenient to v&s;e again&s;t the fame &s;uch remedies as our Aunce&s;tors and other Soueraigne Princes haue v&s;ed with Popes, that haue extended the power giuen the~ by God for edification, beyond their limites. E&s;pecially being per&s;waded that by your &amp; other our Loyall &s;ubiects, and by the whole world it &s;hall be &s;o held and reputed. A&s;&s;uring our &s;elues, that as you haue hitherto, attended to the <HI>Cure</HI> of &s;oules of our faithfull &s;ubiectes, and to the Di|uine &s;eruice, which through your diligence flouri&s;heth in this our &s;tate no le&s;&s;e thenin
<PB REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 39 -->any other &s;o you, will hereafter continue in the &s;elfe &s;ame pa&s;torall care, being it our mo&s;t &s;tedfa&s;t Re&s;olution to continue in the holy Catholique and Apo&s;tolike faith and in the ob&s;eruance of the Holy Romain Church; euen as our Predece&s;&s;ors from the beginning of the foundation of this Citty till this pre&s;ent by the grace of God haue done. And we will that the&s;e our Letters for the vnder&s;tanding of all men be affixed in the publike places of this our Citty, and &s;o of all other &s;ubiect to our Dominion, A&s;&s;uring our &s;elues that &s;o manife&s;t a pub|lication will come to the eares of all &s;uch as haue had knowledge of the fore&s;aid <HI>Bull;</HI> and al&s;o to the notice of his <HI>Holine&s;&s;e,</HI> whom we be&s;eech our Lord God to in|&s;pire that he may vnder&s;tand the Nullitie of his <HI>Bull</HI> &amp; of other his attempts again&s;t vs, and that he taking knowledge of the Iu&s;tice of our cau&s;e, we may be encouraged to ob&s;erue our Reuerence to the Holy Sea Apo&s;tolike, of the which we and our fore|fathers, together with this Common|wealth
<PB REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 39 -->haue beene, and will be euer mo&s;t deuoted.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at our Ducall Pallace <DATE>the &s;ixth of Maye in the fourth Indiction. 1606.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Giacomo Girardo</HI> Secretarie.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Imprinted by <HI>Rampazotto</HI> Printer to the Duke.</P>
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<OPENER><SIGNED>Leonardo Donato per gratia di Dio Duce di Venetia, &amp;c.</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>_ALLI Reuerendi&s;&s;imi Patri|archi, Arciue&s;coui, Ve&s;coui di tutto il Dommio no&s;tro di Ve+netia, &amp; alli Vicarij, Abbati Priori, Rettori, delle Chie&s;e Parochiali, &amp; altri Prelati Eccle&s;ia&s;tici Salute.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Evenuto &agrave; notitia no&s;tra, che li xvij. Aprile pro &s;&s;imo pa&s;sato per ordine del Santi&s;simo Padre Paulo Papa Quinto &egrave; &s;tato publicato, &amp; affi&s;&s;o in Roma vn'a&s;&s;erto Breue fulminato contra Noi &amp; il Senato, &amp; Dominio no&s;tro, diretto &agrave; voi, deltenore, &amp; continenza come in quello. Per il che ritrouando&s;i in obligo di con&s;eruare in quiete, &amp; tranquillitalo Stato datoci da dio in gouerno, &amp; mantenere l'auttorit&agrave; di Principe, che non ri|con o&s;ce nelle co&s;e temporali alcun &s;uperiore &s;otto la Diuina Maest&agrave;, per que&s;te no&s;tre publice litte|re prote&s;tiamo innanzi al Signor Dio, &amp; &agrave; tutto il. Mondo, che non habbiamo mancato di v&s;are tutti limodi po&s;&s;ibili per render la Santit&agrave; &s;ua
<PB REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 41 -->capace delle validi&s;sime, <HI>&amp;</HI> in&s;olubile ragioni no|&s;tre, Prima per mezzo dell Oratore no&s;tro re&s;ide~|te appre&s;so la &s;ua Santit&agrave;, Poi per lettere no&s;tre, re&s;po~&s;iue alli Breui, &s;erittici dalei, Et finalmen|te per vnoratore e&s;pre&s;&s;o, mandatole &agrave; questo effetto: Ma hauendo trouate chiu&s;e le orrecchie della Santita &s;ua, &amp; vedendo il Breue &s;udetto e&s;sere publicato contro la forma d'ogni ragione, &amp; contra quello, che le Diuine &s;critture, la dot|trina delli Santi Padri, &amp; li Sacri Canonim&s;eg|nano, in pregiudicio dell auttorita &s;ecolare dona|taci da Dio, &amp; della liberta dello Stato no&s;tro, con perturbatione della quieta po&s;&s;e&s;sione, che per gratia Diuina &s;ottol no&s;tro gouerno li fideli no&s;tri &s;ogetti tengono delli beni, honore, &amp; vi|te loro, &amp; con vniuer&s;ale, &amp; grani&s;&s;imo &s;cando|lo di tutti: non dubittamo punto tenere il &s;udetto Breue non &s;olo per ingiu&s;to, &amp; indehito ma anco ra per nullo, &amp; di ni&s;&s;un valore, &amp; co&s;i inualido irrito, &amp; fulminato illegitimamente, &amp; de facto nullo iuris ordine &s;eruato, che non habbiamo ri|putato conuenire <HI>l'v&s;ar contra quello li reme|dii, de' quali li no&s;tri Maggiori,</HI> &amp; <HI>alteri Principi &s;upremi &s;i &s;ono valuti con li Pon|tefici,
<PB REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 41 -->quali nell'adoperare la</HI> Pote&s;ta datali da <HI>Dio in edificatione, hanno trapa&s;cati li termini;</HI> Ma&s;&s;ime e&s;sendo certi che da voi, &amp; dalli aliri fideli no&s;tri &s;oggetti, &amp; dal mondo tut to &s;ara tenuto, &amp; reputato per tale. A&s;sicuran|doci che voi, &s;i come &s;ino al pre&s;ente hauete atte&s;o alia cura delle anime delli no&s;tri fideli, &amp; al culto Diuino, il quale per la vo&s;tra diligenza fiori&s;ce in que&s;to no&s;tro Stato al pari di qualonque altro co&s;i all'auuenire continuarete nell'i&s;te&s;so vfficio Pa&s;torale. E&s;sendo deliberatione no&s;tra fermi&s;si ma di voler continuare nella Santa Fede Cattoli|ca, &amp; Apo&s;tolica, &amp; nell'o&s;seruanza della San|ta Chie&s;a Romana &s;i come li Maggiori no&s;tri dal principio della fondatione di que&s;ta Ci<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ta &s;in'al pre&s;ente per Diuina gratia hanno continuato,</P>
<P>Et que&s;te no&s;tre vogliamo, che ad intellige~tia di tutti &s;iano affi&s;se nelli luoghi publici d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> que&s;ta no&s;tra Citta <HI>&amp;</HI> di tutte le altre no&s;tre fedeli &s;ud|dite al Dominio: E&s;sendo certi che vna publicati|tione tanto manife&s;ta andera, allorecchie di tutti quelli ch'hanno auuto cognitione del &s;udetto Breue, &amp; peruenire anco a notitia della Santita &s;ua quale preghiamo Dio no&s;tro Signore che in&s;pi+ri
<PB REF="7"><!-- PDF PAGE 42 --> a cono&s;cere la nullita del Breue &s;uo, et delli al|tri atti fatti contro di Noi, et cono&s;ciuta la giu&s;ti+tia della no&s;tra cau&s;a, ciaccre&s;calanimo a &s;eruare la riuerenza ver&s;o la Santa Sede Apo&s;tolica, del|laquale Noi, et li no&s;tri prece&s;sori in&s;ieme con que&s;ta Repulica &s;iamo &s;empre &s;tati, <HI>&amp;</HI> &s;aremo deuoti&s;simi.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Data nel no&s;tro Ducal Palazzo <DATE>a vj di Mag|gio, nella Indittione Quarta. 1606.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Giacomo Girardo Secretario.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Stampata per il Rampazetto Stampator Ducade.</P>
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