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66 antient and original document. Bat the reader will have the opportunity of judging for him- self. The other section bears the title^ Summa- rium literarum expediendarum per officium sacre penitentiarie apostoUce. It contains matter somewhat similar to that in ihe preced- ing section, and' closes with the title, Absolu- tio de homicidiis. And here is the proper place for the observation, that the absence in these Taxce, of the more offensive articles to be found in the First Class, can only entitle them to the diminished reprobation of not being so bad as the worst, and of being more reserved, only be- cause shame and exposure had made caution more necessary. But indeed, what crime can be imagined, which may not be comprehended within the boundless circumference of*-»et alia mala commisit ? It may just be repeated, that the Parisian edition is exactly copied in the Oceanus Juris, but^ which is to be regretted^ without any in- troductory matter, and that BancVs edition entirely, and du Mont's in the parts which have been specified, represent the same. As relates to Banck's, it would have been very desirable^ had he followed any one specified