heart, and promise them the blessings of eternal salvation as the reward of the just. To those also who shall not personally go thither, but who shall at their own expense have'sent thither fit and proper men to stay there for one year at least, as also to those who, at the expense of others, but in their own persons, shall have undergone the labours of the pilgrimage so undertaken, we do grant plenary pardon for their sins. Of this remission also, we do will that all shall be partakers according to the amount of their aid and the intensity of their devotion, who shall give suitable aid out of their resources in support of the said land. Their own persons also, and their property, from the time of their assuming the Cross, we do take under the protection of Saint Peter and of ourselves, and they are to be under the care of the archbishops and all prelates of the church of God ; it being by us enacted, that until the fact of their death or their return is known to a certainty, the same shall remain safe and untouched. And if any person shall presume to act contrary hereto, he is to be compelled by ecclesiastical censure, all power of appeal removed. If also any persons among those proceeding thither shall be bound by oath to the payment of interest, then do you, brother archbishops and bishops, by the same means of coercion, compel their creditors throughout your dioceses, all obstacle by appeal removed, entirely to absolve them from their oaths, and to make them desist from any further exaction of interest. But if any creditor shall compel them to payment of interest, you are, by like measures of coercion, to force him to make restitution thereof, all power of appeal removed. We do also order that Jews shall be compelled by the secular power to remit all claim against such for interest, and, until they shall have remitted the same, we do order that, through sentence of excommunication, all communication whatever with them shall be withheld. These matters also, brother archbishops and bishops, we do wish and command each of you to carry out in his respective diocese; and you are so diligently and so faithfully to follow the same, that in the strict enquiry made at the last judgment, when you shall be standing before the judgment seat of Christ, you shall be enabled to give a becoming account thereof. Given at the Lateran, on the sixth day before the calends of January, in the second year of our pontificate." In the same month of January, immediately after the Nativity of our Lord, the heart of Philip, king of Prance, being