Whereas the venerable father, Thomas,
Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England,
and Legate of the Apostolic See, with the consent
and assent of the Bishop and his brothers, the
suffragans, and also of the whole clergy of his
province in his provincial council assembled, the
orders of law in this behalf requisite being in all
things observed, by his definitive sentence
pronounced and declared W. Sautre (some time
chaplain, condemned for heresy, by him the said W.
heretofore in form of law abjured, and him the said
W. relapsed again into the said heresy) a manifest
heretic, and decreed him to be degraded; and hath
for that cause really degraded him from all
clerical prerogative and privilege; and hath
decreed him the said W. to be left, and hath really
left him, to the secular court, according to the
laws and canonical sanctions set forth in this
behalf; and holy mother, the church, hath nothing
further to do in the premises. We, therefore, being
zealous for justice, and a lover of the Catholic
faith, willing to maintain and defend holy church,
and the rights and liberties thereof; and, as much
as in us lies, to extirpate by the roots such
heresies and errors out of our kingdom of England,
and to punish heretics so convicted with condign
punishment; and being mindful that such heretics,
convicted in form aforesaid, and condemned
according to law, divine and human, by canonical
institutes on and in this behalf accustomed, ought
to be burnt with a burning flame of fire; we
command you most strictly as we can, firmly
enjoining, that you commit to the fire the
aforesaid W. being in your custody, in some public
and open place within the liberties of the city
aforesaid, before the people publicly, by reason of
the premises, and cause him really to be