Facultates ecclesie necnon et dioceses que ab
aliquibus possidentur episcopis, iure sibi uendicent quod tricennalis lex
conclusit. Quia et filiorum nostrorum principum ita emananuit auctoritas ut
ultra triginta annos nulli liceat pro eo appellare quod legum tempus
exclusit. To these:
You assert that these tithes are rightfully yours, nevertheless the thirty
year objection [prescription] imposes silence on you. All possession is annulled by
thirty or forty year prescriptions of religious houses or one hundred years
for the lands of the holy Roman church. Whence Pope Gelasius:
