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Savageti, Johannes · 1476

...the said church. When these matters were brought to their notice, the said Otto and his accomplices, making a mockery of them, not only did not care to obey, but even forbade others to obey, and provoked them to disobedience. For this reason, they interposed two successive frivolous appeals. Through the solicitation of these, and a conspiracy made among them regarding not obeying the mandates of Your Holiness, they drew the greater part of the clergy of the said church into their consortium. Through Your Holiness, these [appeals] were rejected as frivolous, and [the clergy] were ordered to return to the Apostolic See—which the said Otto and his accomplices had previously approached as Catholics, but shortly after impugned as schismatics—thereby damnably incurring the aforementioned penalties, sentences, and censures. Enveloped in these, and having persisted stubbornly for two years and more, they publicly involved themselves in divine services in contempt of the keys of the Holy Roman Church and compelled others to profane [those services]. And when I, Johannes Savageti, and three other older and more prominent Canons of the said church—not led by money, not seduced by fallacy, not enticed by private love of flesh or kinship, but moved by a pure conscience of justice for the reverence of Your Holiness and the mandates of the Holy Apostolic See—obeyed the same [mandate] and, taught by our example and following with a willing heart, adhered to the confirmed Lord, the said Otto and his accomplices, seized by sudden fury, pursued us with incredible hatred. And they inflicted countless damages and injuries upon us and others adhering to the confirmed Lord. And to touch upon a few things out of many: they invaded our property, usurped the fruits of our prebends and offices for two years, exacted money from certain obedient priests, despoiled others of their benefices, and locked some in prison dungeons. Among them, the formerly venerable priest Udalric, surnamed Krumer, was cast into prison and afflicted with various penalties for his obedience to the Apostolic See, and he became obedient even unto death, losing his spirit and succumbing to death. What more [need be said]? Adding iniquity upon iniquity, they prohibitively warned religious and other fearful men not to publish the mandates of Your Holiness and the justice of the aforementioned Lord Ludovic, nor to observe the ecclesiastical interdict...