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| | Forgery & Indulgences |
 | | In 1420 Chicheley, Archbishop of Canterbury, whether moved, as Raynaldus says, by love of gain, or, as we may charitably hope, by inordinate zeal, proclaimed for his episcopal seat a jubilee with the same pardons as that of Rome. |
 | | On hearing of it Martin V interposed effectively, characterizing it as an unheard of presumption, an audacious sacrilege and an attempt to erect a false tabernacle of salvation in opposition to the Roman pontiff, to whom alone God had confided the power. |
 | | It was a period of audacious forgery, as manifested in the Portiuncula and the Carmelite Scapular, and the prelates who conducted the Roman churches were not likely to be behind in the general scramble for a portion of the spiritual treasure. |
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