fe or member, or
that their persons may be seized or hands anywise laid upon
them, or any injuries offered to them, under any pretence
whatsoever. The counsel which they shall intrust me withal by
themselves, their messengers, or letters, I will not knowingly
reveal to any to their prejudice. I will help them to defend
and keep the Roman Papacy and the royalties of St. Peter,
saving my order against all men. The legate of the Apostolic
see, going and coming, I will honorably treat, and help in his
necessities. The rights, honors, privileges, and authority of
the holy Roman Church, of our lord the Pope, and his aforesaid
successors, I will endeavor to preserve, defend, increase, and
advance. I will not be in any council, action, or treaty, in
which shall be plotted against our said lord and the said Roman
Church, any thing to the hurt or prejudice of their persons,
right, honor, state, or power; and if I shall know any such
thing to be treated or agitated by any whomsoever, I will
hinder it all that I can; and as soon as I can, will signify it
to our said lord, or to some other, by whom it may come to his
knowledge. The rules of the Holy Fathers, the Apostolic
decrees, ordinances, or disposals, reservations, provisions,
and mandates, I will observe with all my might, and cause by
others. Heretics, Schismatics, and Rebels to our said lord, or
his aforesaid successors, I will to the utmost of my power
persecute and oppose. I will come to a council when I am
called, unless I am hindered by a canonical impediment. I will,
by myself in person, visit the threshold of the Apostles every
three years; and give an account to our lord, and his aforesaid
successors, of all my pastoral office, and of all things
anywise belonging to the state of my church, to the discipline
of my clergy and people, and, lastly, to the salvation of souls
committed to my trust; and will, in like manner, humbly receive
and diligently execute the Apostolic commands. And if I be
detained by a lawful impediment, I will perform all things
aforesaid by a certain messenger hereto specially empowered, a
member of my Chapter or some other in ecclesiastical dignity,
or else having a parsonage; or in default of these, by a priest
of the diocese; or in default of one of the clergy, (