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 Excommunicamus, et anathematizamus ex parte Dei Omnipotentis * * * ac omnes, et singulos alios Hæreticos * * * ac eorumdem libros [hæresim continentes, vel de Religione tractantes,] sine auctoritate Nostra, et Sedis Apostolicæ scienter legentes, aut retinentes, imprimentes, seu quomodolibet defendentes, ex quavis causa, publice, vel occulte, quovis ingenio, vel colore: nec non Schismaticos, et eos, qui se a Nostra, et Romani Pontificis pro tempore existentis obedientia pertinaciter subtrahunt, vel recedunt.

This, in plain English (and it ought to be known and well considered by every Englishman), is to the following effect:-

"We (the pontiff) excommunicate and anathematise — after certain heretics named — all others, and those who, without Our authority, and that of the Apostolic See, knowingly read, or keep, or print, or in any way defend, for any cause, publicly or privately, with whatever intention or pretence, the books of such heretics, [containing heresy, or treating of Religion:] as well as all Schismatics, and those who persist in disobedience to the Roman See."

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