nvincing proof of how dreadful the Romish Church's anathemas
are, we give the Pope's fearful curse, taken from a form of
excommunication copied from the "Leger Book" of the church of
Rochester, long in the custody of the dean and chapter there:--

"By the authority of God Almighty, the Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost, and of the holy canons, and of the
undefiled Virgin Mary, the mother and patroness of our
Saviour, and of all the celestial virtues, angels,
archangels, thrones, dominions, powers, cherubims and
seraphims, and of the holy patriarchs, prophets, and
of all the apostles and evangelists, and of the holy
innocents who in the sight of the Holy Lamb are found
worthy to sing the new song, of the holy martyrs and
holy confessors, and of the holy virgins, and of all
the saints, and together with all the holy and elect
of God: we excommunicate and anathematise him or them,
malefactor or malefactors, and from the threshold of
the holy church of God Almighty we sequester them,
that he or they may be tormented, disposed and
delivered over with Dathan and Abiram, with those who
say to the Lord God, Depart from us, we desire not Thy
ways. And as fire is quenched with water, so let the
light of him or them be put out for evermore, unless
it shall repent him or them, and they make
satisfaction. Amen. May the Father who created man,
curse him or them. May the Son, who suffered for us,
curse him or them. May the Holy Ghost, who was given
to us in baptism, curse him or them. May the holy
cross of Christ, for our salvation triumphing over his
enemies, ascend and curse him or them. May the eternal
and holy Virgin Mary, mother of God, curse him or
them. May St. Michael, the advocate of holy souls,
curse him or them. May all the angels and archangels,
principalities and powers, and all the heavenly host,
curse him or them. May the laudable number of
patriarchs and prophets curse him or them. May St.
John, the chief forerunner and baptist of Christ,
curse him or them. May St. Peter and St. Paul, and St.
Andrew, and all other Christ's apostles, together with
the rest of his disciples and evangelists, who by
their preaching converted the universal world, curse
him or them. May the holy and wonderful company o