The section of the _Authentic_
granting the special protection of the Emperor follows:
After careful inquiry of the bishops, abbots, dukes, counts,
judges, and other nobles of our sacred palace in regard to this
matter, we, in our loving-kindness, do grant to all scholars who
are travelling for the sake of study, and especially to
professors of divine and sacred laws, this privilege: Both they
and their messengers are to come in security to the places in
which the studies are carried on, and there they are to abide in
security. For we think it proper, in order that they may be
upheld in their good works by our fame and protection, to defend
from all harm, by definite special favor, those by whose
knowledge the world is illumined unto obedience to God and to us
his servants, and the lives of our subjects are moulded....
Therefore by this law, which is of general effect, and is to be
valid forever, we decree that hereafter no one shall show himself
so bold as to presume to inflict any injury upon scholars, or,
for an offence committed in their former province, to impose any
fine upon them,--which, we have heard, sometimes happens through
an evil custom. And let violators of this decree, and the local
rulers at the time in case they have themselves neglected to
punish such violation, know surely that a four-fold restitution
of property shall be exacted from all, and that in addition to
the brand of infamy affixed to them by the law itself, they shall
be forever deprived of their official positions.
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