INCLOSURE or ENCLOSURE: see COMMONS.
a papal bull, so called from its opening words, first issued in 1363 and republished annually about Easter tide. It was a statement of ecclesiastical censure against heresies, schisms, sacrilege, infringement of papal and ecclesiastical privi leges, attacks on person and property, piracy, forgery and other crimes. Owing to the opposition of the sovereigns of Europe both Protestant and Catholic, who regarded the bull as an infringement of their rights, its publication was discontinued by Pope Clement XIV. in 1770. It is considered to have been formally abrogated by Pius IX. in the constitution Apostolicae Sedis. It received its final form from Pope Urban VIII. in 1627.
See J. Prior, art. "In Coena Domini," in the Catholic Encyclopaedia; M. O'Riordan, art. "Apostolicae Sedis," ibid.
