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55 Banok. The reader must here carefdlly reool^ lect^ and attend to the fact^ that this portion is no more than an exact repript of the pajml copy of 1514, and either that, or the copy in thia tract, was probably naed by the Freni^h editor in compiling his volume. And then he is to be told, or reminded, that here we have a regular priced catalogue of absolutions, fijr, specifically, most of the worst crimes which can be cmmnitted, and, by general expressim, ibr all:-- Absolutio pro illo qui in ecclesia cognovit mulierem et alia mala commisit g. vi Absolutio pro conoubtnario, &c. «g. vii« Absolutio pro eo qui matrem sororem aut aliain conaanguineam vd affinem aiiam aut cummatrem camaliter cognovit. , • • .g. v. With more to a similar purpose. Soon after, with respect to marriage within prohibited degrees, (which were multiplied infi- nitely,) we have the intimation, Et debet con* cordare com camera apostolica« This section, it is important to,observe, agrees almost verba- tim with the copy given in this work ; and by noticing the variations, we shall have the ad- vantage of a perfect representation of the text, and of the confirmation which it a&rds to that