Sess. 3. A fresh citation was made, and no one having appeared, the two popes, Pedro of Luna and Augelo Cor- rario, were declared contumacious by a sentence which was affixed to the church door.
Sess. 4. Bishop Ulric, the ambassador of Robert, king of the Romans, addressed the assembly, endeavoring to frustrate the object of the council.
Sess. 5. The two contending parties were again de- clared contumacious, and the promoter of the council produced against them thirty-seven articles, containing the whole history of the schism, and showing the bad- ness of their cause. Although the facts contained in this accusation were sufficiently notorious, commissioners were appointed to prove their truth.
Sess. 6. The bishop of Salisbury showed that it was necessary for the cause that there should be a general, and not merely a. partial, withdrawal from the obedience of the popes, and declared that he had authority from the king of England to follow out the scheme for unity, and to consent to whatever the council should determine.
Sess. 7. The difficulties started by the ambassador of the king of the Romans were answered.
Sess. 8. The bishops of Salisbury and Evreux showed that the union of the two colleges of cardinals could not be effected while those of the party of Benedict contin- ued to obey him, and that the withdrawal from obedience must be universal. Whereupon the council declared the union of the two colleges to be lawful, and the council itself duly convoked : and a decree was passed to the ef- fect that each one might and ought to' withdraw from the obedience both of Gregory and Benedict; siuce both of them had by their artifices eluded the solemn cession of office which they had promised upon oath to make.
Sess. 9. Was employed in the reading of the decree of the preceding session.
Sess. 10. The two contending parties were again cited at the door of the church, in order that they might hear the testimony of the witnesses. Then thirty-seven arti- cles, containing their deposition, were read; and it was noted down by how many witnesses each article was proved.
Sess. 11. The reading of the depositions was continued.
Sess. 12. A decree was published declaring the council to be oecumenical, and all contained in the preceding de- positions to be true, public, and notorious.
Sess. 13. One of the deputies from the University of Paris showed that Pedro of Luna was a heretic and schis-
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matic, and that he had forfeited the papacy; and this ho declared to he the opinion of the French universities. The bishop of Navarre also declared thai .-ill thi in the council, to the number of three hundred, agreed in this view.
Sess. 14. A declaration was made thai the council rep- resented the Roman « atholic Church, thai the i o
fore 11 of righl belonged to it, as being the highest, authority on earth; also an act of general withdrawal from the obedience of the two contending parties was drawn up,
Sess. 15. 'ili" definitive sentence was pronounced In the preseni e of the w hole council and of the people who The sentence was to the effect that the holy oecumenical synod, representing the Cath- olii Church, to which ii appertained to take eoguizance of and i" decide the question, after having examined ev erything which had been done concerning the union of the Church, declared Pedro of Luna, called Benedict XIII. and Angelo Corrario, called Gregory XII, to be both of them srhismatical, alienors of schism, heretics, and guilty of perjury; that they had given offence to the whole Church by their obstinacy, that they hail forfeited every dignity, and were, ij>xn f,u-'t<>, separated from the Church. It forbade all the faithful, under pain of excommunica- tion, to recognise them or support their cause. It an mil led all that they bad done against the promoters of unity, and declared the last promotion of cardinals made by them to be null and void.
Sess. lt'». A paper was read, in which the cardinals pres- ent all promised that, in the event of any one of them being elected to the papal chair, he would continue the preseni council, until the Church should be reformed in its bead and in its members; and if one of those then ab- sent or any other not belonging to the college of cardi- nals, were elected, that they would compel him to make the same promise before publishing his election. After- wards the council ratified the sentence against Angelo and Pedro.
Sess. IT. Certaiu preliminaries concerning the election were settled.
Sess. 18. A solemn procession was made to implore of the Almighty the grace necessary to guide their election.
Sess. 19. The cardinals, to the number of twenty-four, entered into conclave under the guard of the grand-mas- ter of Rhodes, and at the end of ten days' confinement, they unanimously electe"d Peter of Candia, cardinal of Milan, of the order of Franciscan friars, a man seventy years of age, who took the name of Alexander V. As soon as he was elected. John Gersou, chancellor of the University of Paris, delivered a discourse, exhorting him to the faithful discharge of his duty, etc.
Sess. 20. The new pope presided and delivered a dis- course. The decree of his election was then read, and on the following Sunday he was crowned.