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Handout #130

Accusation by Nogaret, lawyer of Philip the Fair, against Boniface VIII (1303 A.D.)

I claim that the individual in question, surnamed Boniface, is not a pope. He has not entered by the door and must be considered a thief and a robber. I claim that the aforesaid Boniface is a manifest heretic and a horrible simonist, such as there has never been since the beginning of the world.. Finally, I claim that the aforesaid Boniface has committed manifest crimes, of great enormity and infinite in number, and that he is incorrigible.  It is the duty of a General Council to judge him and condemn him. 

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