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for all present and future time. In testimony of which matter, our seal has been affixed to these presents. Given in our city of Mainz, on the penultimate day of the month of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand four hundred and sixty-eight.

These present letters were read in the general holy synod and published by the order of the aforementioned most reverend lord, the Archbishop of Mainz, on Wednesday, the thirty-first and last day of the month of August, in the year, etc., sixty-eight.

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Paul, Bishop, servant of the servants of God. For a lasting record of the matter: It agrees with reason and suits honesty that those things which have proceeded from the grace of the Roman Pontiff, even if the apostolic letters prepared for that purpose were not completed due to his intervening death, should obtain their effect. Indeed, during the time of our predecessor of happy memory, Pope Pius II, on behalf of our beloved son,