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'Text. ''We forbid under penalty of anathema that that deadly and God-detested art of slingers and archers be in the future exercised against Christians and Catholics. '''

''Comment. ''The reference seems to be to a sort of tournament, the principal feature of which was the shooting of arrows and other projectiles at persons on a wager. The practice had already been condemned by Urban II in canon 7 of the Lateran Synod of 1097, no doubt because of the danger it involved.

'Text.'' The ordinations conferred by Peter Leonis (Pierleone, the antipope Anacletus II) and other schismatics and heretics, we declare null and void. ''' ___