Council of Trent
Council of Trent: Session VII, Reformation, Chapter XV
Waterworth (1848), Hanover transcription; separate papal documents excluded
Reformation, Chapter XV
CHAPTER XV. Ordinaries shall take care that all manner of hospitals, even those exempted, be faithfully governed by their adminstrators.
The Ordinaries shall take care that all hospitals whatsoever be faithfully and diligently governed by their own administrators, by what names soever called, and in what way soever exempted: observing herein the form of the Constitution of the Council of Vienne, which begins, Quia contingit, which this holy Synod hath thought fit to renew, and doth hereby renew, together with the derogations therein contained.
Translation: J. Waterworth, The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent (1848), Hanover Historical Texts Project transcription (1995).
Source: Council of Trent: Session VII (Hanover Historical Texts Project)