may be ordered in more wholesome wise we beseech your
holiness to deign of your grace to grant them Indulgence to the effect
following, namely, that as long as they continue in the verity of the
faith, the unity of the Holy Roman Church, in obedience and in devotion
to your holiness and your successors, the Chief Pontiffs of the Holy
Roman Church, who shall be canonically elected, so long a suitable
Confessor chosen by them shall have power under the authority of the
Apostolic See to grant to them when in articulo mortis full remission of
all sin which they may have confessed with contrition of heart. Provided
always that they presume not to do any unlawful thing through their
reliance upon this Indulgence, and provided also that so soon as they are
notified of this Indulgence they keep fast on every Friday for one whole
year, or do some other act of piety: but if they have neglected to fast
or been unable to do so, or if it hath been their custom heretofore so to
fast on every Friday, then they shall be bound to perform some other
special act of grace in accordance with the directions of the aforesaid
Confessor.

"The privilege desired in this petition is granted to all professed
Brothers, Converts, and Oblates, under perpetual vows, so long as they
live in the observance of the rule.

"Given in the presence of our Lord the Pope,

"C. ARMINIENSIS.

"It is asked also that the aforesaid licence hold good without letters
Apostolic to confirm the same.

"Granted. C. ARMINIENSIS."

CHAPTER XXIII.

_As to the gaining of Indulgences at the stations in Rome_.

To the venerable and devout Priors at Windesem and Mount St. Agnes near
Zwolle, and to the Priests and Fathers unfeignedly beloved in Christ
Jesus, these, from Brother Everard Swane of the House of the Blessed
Virgin in the Wood near Northorn, your unprofitable servant, good
Fathers. Venerable Fathers, most beloved in Christ Jesus, my love is
ever ready to serve you, and I was desired by divers persons, yea, and
besought, as I understood, by some of your Brothers also, to write to the
Curia to enquire as to the virtue and extent of the Indulgences granted
at certain stations in Rome by our most Holy Father Pope Eugenius IV, the
granting of which Indulgences was promoted by my Lord the Cardinal as ye
do know. I was required to ask the virtue of such, and how they might be
obtained; this thi