Lombardy and certain other areas which, with the exception of a few places, he continues to occupy to this day. And as though it were not sufficient for him that he was manifestly breaking their oath in such a way, he himself, or his officials, compelled the men in these territories to swear an oath, absolving them de facto from the oaths of fealty by which they were held to the Roman Church, since it was not possible de jure, making them nevertheless renounce the aforesaid fealty, and to take an oath of fealty of the same kind to himself. It is fully established that he has become a violator of the peace, because once, at the time between when peace was re-established between him and the Church, he had sworn an oath in the sight of J[ohn] d’Abbeville, bishop of Sabina, and Master Thomasius, cardinal-priest of the title of Santa Sabina, in the presence of many prelates, princes and barons. He had sworn that he would exactly and unconditionally \unconditionally/ abide by and obey all the mandates of the Church in the matters for which he was bound by the chain of excommunication—the reasons for his excommunication being set out in sequence before him—then remitting every sanction and penalty to all the other men of Germany, of the kingdom of Sicily, and whomsover else had held to the Church against him; and that he would at no time wrong or cause them to be wronged because they had assisted the Church. This oath he caused to be sworn on his own soul through N., the count of Acerra.¹ Afterwards, \Afterwards/ by no means ashamed to embarrass himself in perjury, he did not keep the peace or his oath in this matter, for he had some of those very men seized, both noble and others; and when he had stripped them of all their goods, he had their wives and children incarcerated; and he shamelessly occupied the Church’s lands contrary to the promise which he had made to the same men, J[ohn] the bishop of Sabina, and Cardinal Thomasius, even though they pronounced sentence of excommunication in his presence should he henceforth violate his promise. And when they commanded by their apostolic authority that he should not, either himself or through others, hinder nominations, elections or confirmations of churches and monasteries from freely being conducted in the kingdom in the future, according to the statutes of the general council, and that henceforth nobody in the same kingdom should treat a cleric as a layman, and that he should make adequate compensation to the Templars, Hospitallers and other ecclesiastical persons for the damages and injuries inflicted upon them; he scorned the execution of this order. It is also evident that there are eleven or more archiepiscopal sees, and many episcopal sees, as well as abbacies and other churches vacant in the aforesaid kingdom, and that because of his actions—this is clearly evident—they have for a long time been without the rule of prelates, to the serious disadvantage and harm of the churches themselves, as well as to the peril of souls. And although perhaps in some churches of that kingdom elections are conducted by the chapters, because clergy who are his friends have been elected by them, it can probably be concluded that they nevertheless do not have the means of conducting a free election. He has not only caused the resources and goods of the churches of this kingdom to be seized at his pleasure, but has also carried off the crosses, chalices, thuribles, and other sacred treasures and silk vestments, as though he despised divine worship; although, as it is said, these things have been in part restored to these churches, after the exaction however of a certain amount of money. The clergy are \also/ variously distressed by the collecting of taxes and tolls; and not only are they dragged before the secular tribunal, but they are even, as it is reported, forced to undergo judicial combat; they are imprisoned, put to death, and tortured on gibbets, to the shame and disgrace of the whole clerical order. Concerning the damages and injuries brought upon the same aforementioned Templars, Hospitallars, and ecclesiastical persons, there has been no reparation. That he is a perpetrator of sacrilege is also certain; for, when the aforementioned bishops of Porto and Palestrina, and many more prelates and clergy of the churches, religious as well as secular, were travelling by sea to the Apostolic See, as he had blocked all land routes, for the celebration of a council that he himself had previously asked to be convoked,