Storia do Mogor 358.4.7

358.4.7

Probably the Lord Bishop of San Thomé, when he wrote those words to your Council [see ante], did not know that His Most Christian Majesty would not concede any respect to episcopal authority in cases where we were badly treated without cause. For there are many judgments by the councils of the parliaments of Paris, Toulouse, Grenoble, Rennes and elsewhere, of July 17, 1662, May 12, 1663, and of the council of Sens in 1667, and others fulminated against the Lord Bishop of Alets, [the Archbishop of] Sens, and other prelates. Yet these had not oppressed us in the severe way adopted by the Lord Bishop of San Thome. All these things you may see, gentlemen, in an extract from the Registers of Parliament entered at the head of our Rule, from which we take a few phrases. 'Meanwhile, that the petitioners may be maintained in the possession of the rights and privileges of their Order, we forbid the Lord Archbishop of Sens and all others to disturb or interfere with their persons, or to hinder their ordinary functions, as also we direct all priests, rectors, rural deans and all others that they issue neither proclamation nor order in regard to any decrees, interdicts, or excommunications,' etc.