And to us, the said apostolical commissary-general, his holiness
concedes that we may be able to dispense and compound for any
irregularity whatsoever, provided it shall not arise out of any
wilful homicide, simony, apostasy from the faith, heresy, or bad
inception of orders; and in like manner to absolve those who shall
have contracted matrimony, there being impediment of secret affinity,
arising from previous illicit copulation, one of the contracting
parties being ignorant of it at the time of the contract, in order
that they may be able to celebrate it anew between themselves
(although it be secretly) for conscience’ sake; and also, in order
that they may, after celebrating the matrimony, and contracting a
similar impediment, demand their conjugal rights; and we, earnestly
desiring the good of souls, authorise the confessors, in order that
(in the article of death, only and without the obligation of giving
account to us) they may use these our faculties, and apply the
privileges and indulgences contained in this summary, to those who,
being extremely poor, are not able to pay for it; and those who,
truly penitent, desire to obtain these graces, imposing upon them the
obligation of afterwards taking them if they have an exit out of
danger in the case for which they have recourse to it.
* * * * *
And inasmuch as, besides the other faculties, his holiness concedes
to us power to suspend, during the year of the publication of this
bull, all indulgences and graces, similar and dissimilar, conceded by
apostolical authority to any churches, monasteries, hospitals, pious
places, universities, brotherhoods, and private persons, in the said
kingdoms and dominions, although they may be in favour of the fabric
of the chapel of St Peter at Rome, or of any other similar crusade,
even containing clauses contrary to such suspension, as also that we
may re-validate in favour of those who participate in the indulgences
and graces of this bull what we may have suspended:
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