on account of certain tracts 'On True and False Witchcraft,' rashly
and presumptuously by me written, published, and sent to be printed
at Cologne, without the perusal or permission of the superiors of
this place: whereas I am informed for certain that in the aforesaid
books, and also in certain of letters on the same subject, sent
clandestinely to the clergy and senate of Treves, and others, for
the purpose of impeding the course of justice against witches and
magicians, there are contained many articles which are not only
erroneous and scandalous, but also suspected of heresy, and savoring
of sedition: I therefore hereby revoke, condemn, reject, and
repudiate, as if they had never been said or asserted by me, the
said articles, as seditious and temerarious, contrary to the common
judgment of learned theologians, to the decision and bulls of the
supreme Pontiffs, and to the practice, and statutes, and laws of the
magistrates and judges, as well as of this Archdiocese of Treves, as
of the other provinces and principalities, in the order in which the
same are hereunto annexed.

"1. _Imprimis._ I revoke, condemn, reject, and hold as disproved,
what both in words and writing I have often and to many persons
pertinaciously asserted; and what I would have had taken as the head
and chief ornament of my disputations, to wit, that what is written
touching the corporeal evection or translation from place to place
of witches and magicians, is to be held as a vain superstition and
figment, as well because that opinion savors of heretical pravity,
as because it partakes of sedition, and so also savors of the crimes
of _lese majeste_. 2. In the second place, I revoke what I have
pertinaciously, but without solid reasons, alleged against the
magistracy, in letters secretly sent to several, that is to say,
that the course of procedure against witches is erroneous and
fantastical: asserting, moreover, that those witches were compelled
by the severity of torture to confess acts that they had never done;
that innocent blood was shed by a cruel judicature; and that by a
new alchemy gold and silver were extracted from human blood. 3.
Thereby, and by the like assertions, partly diffused by private oral
communications among the vulgar, partly