634 HOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



dominions and all good things procped. that the Lord directing your ac- 

 tions, if you prosecute this holy and praiseworthy resolution, in a short 

 time, for the happiness and glory of the whole Christian world, your labours 

 and your efforts will obtain a most happy accomplishment. But, as it would 

 be a difficult thing to present the present letters in each of the places where 

 it might be requisite, we will and decree, of our own similar motion and 

 knowledge, that the copies of them, signed by a public notary, employed for 

 that purpose, and provided with the seal of some person possessed of ec- 

 clesiastical dignity, or a member of the ecclesiastical court, be regarded as 

 equally valid in all respects in courts of justice and without, and every- 

 where else, as if the present letters were exhibited or shewn. Let no per- 

 son therefore presume to infringe, or with rash boldness to contravene this 

 page of our commendation, exhortation, requisition, donation, concession, 

 assignation, constitution, deputation, decree, mandate, inhibition, and will. 

 For if any person presumes to do so, be it Icnown to him that he will incur 

 the indignation of the Almighty God, and of the blessed apostles Peter and 

 Paul. Given in Rome, at St. Peter's, in the year of the incarnation of our 

 Lord, one thousand four hundred and ninety-three, on the fourth day of 

 May, in the first year of our Pontificate. Gratis. (The signatures follow.) 



