Of Carranza: his Epitome of the Decrees and Councils. He owneth the Forgeries.

Carranza, being but a short Compendium, was Printed at Paris, An. 1564. to wit, very fitly, for the more general spreading of the corrupted Councils: All the other Collections being great Volumes, but this a little Informer, or Companion for the Pocket.

It was dedicated to the Illustrious Diego Hurtado Mendoza, Orator in the State of Venice, and his Imperial Majesties Vicegerent in the Holy Council of Trent.

He lays down all the Apostles Canons for good Laws, even the last it self being not excepted; and selects Decrees out of the Decretal Epistles for good and Catholick Canons.

The Decretal Epistles themselves would be too long for so short a Compendium; and therefore he has not the Decrees themselves, but Excerptions.

He has the Pontifical of the Popes Lives, but more modesty than to ascribe it to Damasus: It is a part of his Text however.

He has but 20 Canons of the Nicene Council, and skippeth over the Council of Sinuessa.

He omits the Epilogus Brevis, but owns the Council to which it is annexed.

He followeth Isidore, and exceeds him a little.