Louis Gayet, Le grand schisme d'Occident Les Origines volume 1 (Paris-Florence-Berlin 1889), "Pièces justificatives", 22-23:

Franciscus de la Fora doctor in medicina civis romanus sub juramento deposuit quae secuntur.

1. Primo, dixit quod ipse non erat in Urbe tempore electionis facte de isto D. papa, sed eadem die venit, qui ivit ad videndum D. Jacobum cardinalem de Ursinis, et quesivit ab eo utrum iste esset verus papa. Et respondit dictus cardinalis, "Certe D. Francisce, vos vultis plura scire, et alia." Item similiter ivit ad videndum D. cardinalem de S. Petro [Francesco Tebaldeschi], et cum loquerentur de papa, dixit ille cardinalis: "Nescio si romani bene fecimus."

2. Item, dixit quod visitabat D. cardinalem S. Petri dum infirmabatur de [die?] ista qua obiit [September 6, 1378], et fuit passus morbum caducum seu epilipticum, et spumabat et vertebat oculos terribiliter et die qua obiit arripuit eum bene ter parocismus et mortuus fuit valde cruciatus, quia linguam collidebat cum dentibus propter malitiam infirmitatis, et iste faciebat quod poneretur quod poneretur lignum inter dentes, et faciebat vultum horribilem et sic mortuus est, nulla facta mentione de papa. Verum est tamen quod ante confessus fuit et [23] recepit viaticum sicut potuit et tunc videbatur asserere quod D. Urbanus esset verus papa.

3. Item, dixit quod fuerat cum D. Jacobo cardinali de Ursinis tempore quo obiit [August 13, 1379], et quamdiu infirmatus fuit in Talliacocio, et iste . . . . . . . mortem suam per aliquos dies ante et per unam diem ante obitum ejus fecit publicare testamentum suum, et locutis est quod illum tenebat pro vero papa quem declararet concilium.

4. Et fecit se absolvi auctoritate quarumdam litterarum D. papae Gregorii et dicebat quod antequam cognosceret mentes cardinalium, quamdiu fuit cum isto Urbano, ipse cogitabat quod esset verus papa. Sed postquam fuit in villa Fundorum et cognovit mentes cardinalium quod dubitabat de ejus electione, utrum fuit canonica, et si ipse sciret indubitabiliter quod esset verus papa, quod in omnem eventum ipse Cardinalis stetisset cum eo.

5. Item, iste testis audivit a Symone cubiculario dicti cardinalis quod D. Reginaldus frater . . . . . instabat nimis apud dictum cardinalem quod se declararet pro papa romano ante ejus obitum, et cum sollicitaret eum dixit: "Reginalde, non facias me irasci, alias ego dicam verba que nolis audire. Et ista audivit a dicto Symone.

6. Item, dixit quod dictus cardinalis semper locutus fuit usque ad punctum mortis, et nunquam vidit mori cum tanta devotione et contrictione. Et cum diceretur missa coram eo, tempore elevationis Eucharistie misit spiritum, cum tanta suavitate, quod mirabile fuit et cum perfecta cognitione et rationis vigore.

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Francesco de la Fora, medical doctor and Roman citizen deposed:

• He was not in the City at the time of the election, but returned on the same day.
• He went to see Cardinal Orsini. He asked the Cardinal whether the Archbishop of Bari was the true pope. The Cardinal replied, "Indeed, Don Francesco, do you wish to know additional and other things?"
• He went to see Cardinal Todeschini, and when they were speaking aout the pope, the Cardinal said, "I do not know if we Romans have done well."
• He said he visited Cardinal Todeschini when he was ill of the disease from which he died. He was throwing up and rolling his eyes something terrible. On the day he died he was wracked by three severe spasms, and his teeth were lacerating his tongue until the doctor placed a wooden stick between the teeth. He made a horrible sight, and died without having mentioned the pope.
• He said that it was true nevertheless that he had confessed and received communion earlier, as he was able and then appeared to state that Lord Urban was true pope. [What is the rhetorical significance of 'videbatur'? Did the Doctor witness this, or is he only retailing someone else's alleged information?]
• He also said he was with Cardinal Orsini on his deathbed for several days. On the day before he died he published his Last Will and Testament, and he stated that he held him to be true pope whom a council should declare.
• He got himself absolved by authority of certain letters of Pope Gregory, and before he knew the thoughts of the cardinals, so long as he was with Urban, he thought that Urban was the true pope. But afterwards he was at Fondi, and he discovered the cardinals' opinion that there was doubt about whether his election was canonical. He himself knew without doubt that Urban was true pope becasue in every event Cardinal Orsini had stood with him.
• The witness also said that he heard from Simon, the chamberlain of Cardinal Orsini that his brother Reginald was pressing the Cardinal to declare for the Roman pope before his death, and when he was soliciting the Cardinal, the Cardinal said, "Reginald, don't make me angry, otherwise I will say words that you do not wish to hear." That's what he heard from Simon.