• To gain the golden florin the study of the Gospels and the Fathers was abandoned, and the Decretals, or books of Ecclesiastical Law, so diligently conned, that their margins were worn and soiled with thumbmarks. The first five books of the Decretals were compiled by Gregory IX , and the sixth by Boniface VIII . ↩
• A prophecy of the death of Boniface VIII in 1303, and the removal of the Holy See to Avignon in 1305. ↩