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A03718	The brutish thunderbolt: or rather feeble fier-flash of Pope Sixtus the fift, against Henrie the most excellent King of Nauarre, and the most noble Henrie Borbon, Prince of Condie Togither with a declaration of the manifold insufficiencie of the same. Translated out of Latin into English by Christopher Fetherstone minister of Gods word.; P. Sixti fulmen brutum in Henricum sereniss. Regem Navarrae & illustrissimum Henricum Borbonium, Principem Condaeum. English	Hotman, François, 1524-1590.; Fetherston, Christopher.; Catholic Church. Pope (1585-1590 : Sixtus V). Declaratio contra Henricum Borbonium. English.	1586 (1586)	STC 13843.5; ESTC S117423	154,206	355

do homage to them and also pay a yéerelie tribute to the sea of Rome for the kingdome newly gotten When this couenant and conspiracie was concluded foorthwith the prince that held on the other side was proclaimed an heretike and schismatike and his kingdome was adiudged to him that did first get possession thereof By which shifts it cannot be told how manie fires the popes haue kindled in all parts of Christendom within these fower hundred yéeres how many kings and princes they haue made vassals tributaries and stipendaries to them and their filthie stinking sea Concerning which matter bicause we haue spoken at large a little before it shall be sufficient to speake of those two kings of France and England Therefore when there arose contention betwéen them pope Innocentius the third sent first from his consistorie into France two legates that they might both terrifie the king with threatening curses and that they might raise his subiects to rebell against him and that they might secretly consult and talke with the bishops and priests of France That done he did so quickly and sharply raise the emperor Otho the fourth and also Ferdinandus earle of Flanders and many other princes of other countries to beare armes against the French king that vnlesse he had happily with a valiant and stout hart contemned those threatenings and beastly buls of that pope he had lost not onely that part of his kingdome but also in a short time all the rest The remembrance whereof is extant not onely in our French chronicles but also in the Canonists * For that decretall shall be a in c. nouit 13. extra de iudic perpetual moniment of the popes hatred and rebellious mind against our kings and countrie Therfore we suppose that it is apparent to all men by these things and other that we haue shewed before what authoritie the orders and Counsellers of the realme of France ought to giue to this declaration of pope Sixtus whom we haue prooued by most manifest testimonies to haue béene not onely accused by the most part of Christendome of most notorious crimes but also to haue béene conuict and condemned But if happily there be anie that dispute that like as bicause two parts of thrée parts of Europe haue put downe the pope the third part must giue him none authority so séeing two parts of thrée parts of France would haue his authority reserued to him it is méete that his authoritie be preserued in France we haue a double answer in readinesse The first bicause out of that number of French men which taketh part with the pope all cardinals archbishops bishops priests innumerable crues of munks and clerks and other sharuebugs of the same sort the popes vassals finally all dogs which licke the popes tribunal seat must be culled out bicause of the rule of the law wherein we saie In what busines soeuer any mans matter is handled bicause in some respect §. sed neque Inst de testam ordi l. nullus 10. D. de test l. omnibus 9. C. eodem l. 1. §. in propria D. quand appell sit it concerneth him he is not a méet witnes in that busines The second is that when as these are culled out of the number no small part of the rest which follow the old custome of religion in France do that not with iudgement and willingly but being compelled with threatenings and terror that they are no more to be numbred amongst the clients of the papacie than as the lawiers say witnesses or Gardans retained in any busines by violence and feare are numbred among fit witnesses and authors of whom Vlpian writeth finely those that are present at any act or l. 1. §. vltim D de tutel l. qui testament 20. §. vlti D. qui testamen fac l. nouiss 7. §. 1. quod fals tutor auctor l. 2. D. de iud busines against their will they séeme to be no more present than if they had béene in that place being asléepe or oppressed with the falling sicknes Finally all men perceiue that if the French men had like libertie to vse and exercise both religions scarce the fourth part of the people of the realme would continue in the religion of the sea of Rome In which place it liketh vs wel to recite that old saieng of Bartholus who in the preface of the Digests * num 14. where disputing about Constantines donation and rekoning vp the opinions of other doctors when he commeth to his owne he saith thus Lo we are vpon earth of the church for he taught at Bononia and therefore I say that that donation was of force Where notwithstanding he writeth many things afterward flatly against that donation And in like sort when the canonistes did dispute that it was not lawfull for the emperor to condemne any man of rebellion that did follow the popes faction Bartholus making mention of the sentence of Henrie the emperor wherein he had condemned Robert king of Sicilia of rebellion and of the contrarie sentence of pope Clement the fift whereby he had absolued the same Robert he sheweth surely that he dare not oppose himselfe against the pope But he dissembleth not to allow the emperors sentence with which Bartholus the canonists were therefore greatly displeased which vse that verse of the pope and Caesar calling the pope their Iupiter Caesar with Iupiter doth diuide The empyre reaching far and wide Moreouer Bartholus disputeth in the same place that it was so far off that Robert was the popes vassall as the pope auouched against the emperour that he testifieth that when Robert was dead Aloysius his heire did sweare alleagance to the emperor in the name of Sicilia in the city of Pise he being there present Concerning which matter we must repaire to the constitution of Henrie Ad reprimendam Qui dicant rebel and the contrary In Clem. Pastoralis de iud constitution of the pope abrogating and reprochfully reuersing that But if we thinke it méete to speake any thing of the ecclesiasticall rebellion of popes it shal not be amisse to bring to light the testimony of one that was somtime a most famous Senator of Paris called Cosma Guymerius who vpō the preface of the pragmatical decrée writtē at Bituriga the author wherof was king Charles the seuenth reckoneth vp some things which are greatly appertinent to know the madnes of these Romish Alastors About the yeere of our Lord saith he M. cccxxc after the death of Gregorie the eleuenth when the cardinals were to proceed to choose another to succeed they were threatned by the Romanes that they should die if they would not choose some Italian Therfore they chose the archbishop of Bare who was then at Rome making knowne to him that they chose him to auoide danger or rather they did feigne that they did choose him but afterward when opportunitie was offered they did freelie intend to choose another Therefore when they had chosen him that was called

a band-dog or Cerberus than this But as I haue alreadie said this boldnes of the pope against the king of Nauarr is not greatly to be woondered at séeing such was his vnbridled furie against the most mightie king of France Wherefore let vs heare rather other testimonies of like and the same pride for it is not for man to contend with satan in railing spéeches and it shall be sufficient to vse that curse of Michael the archangell The Lord Jude 1. 9. rebuke thee Therefore to returne to our purpose we must not passe ouer that testimonie of the same popish seruice which is reported touching the same Boniface who in the yéere 1300. when there was great concourse of people at Rome by reason of the Iubilie in the first solemne day the pope shewed himselfe to the people in his Pontificalibus the day following hauing on the attire of the emperor he commanded a naked sword to be borne before him crieng with a lowd voice I am the pope and emperor and I beare rule in earth and heauen And a few daies after hée proudly reiected Albertus created emperor by the electors of Germanie when he came to craue his confirmation denieng that the election had without his authoritie ought to be counted firme séeing he alone had the authoritie of both swords After some good space he confirmed him vpon condition that with al expedition he shuld make war against the French king whose kingdome he gaue him for a pray and reward of his victorie Which things are witnessed by Cuspianus in the life of Albertus in the chronicle of Vsperge and by the writers of the French chronicles But to what end do we prosecute these light and trifling things We haue before declared that the pope of Rome doth claime by the donation of Constantine the empire of al the west parts These be but bare words Wherefore let vs looke into the thing it selfe For we denie that there is any king in the west I meane of France Spaine Aragon Portugal Hungarie Bohemia England Scotland Denmarke Sueueland Ruscia Croatia Dalmatia whom the papacie of Rome will not haue to be vassall and feudatarie to it as if he had receiued his kingdome from him as a fée and benefit and ought for that cause to ow allegeance and to do homage to him It is much that we say and almost incredible to be spoken but the truth shall appéere by instruments that we wil bring to light and by testimonies that we will vse For we wil touch euery realme according to the order of the letters Of that of England AVgustine Steuchus the maister of the popes librarie doth witnes in his book of the donation of Constantine that in 2. pag. 138. that librarie of the popes there is extant a register of pope Alexander the 3. wherein is found an epistle to William king of England For as we vnderstand by that booke of Steuchus the maister of the librarie all the actes of euerie pope are written in seuerall registers to the which what credit we ought to giue the verie rule of the law doth show wherein it is said that a priuate writing must be beléeued but onely against the writer himselfe Therfore this was Alexander his epistle Your wisedome knoweth that the kingdome of Englande sithence the time that the name of Christ was there glorified hath bin vnder the hand and tuition of the chiefe of the Apostles For as you know full well the Englishmen were faithfull and in respect of godly deuotion and knowledge of religion they gaue a yeerely pension to the apostolike sea wherof some part was giuen to the bishop of Rome some part to the church of S. Marie which is called the schoole of the Englishmen to the vse of the brethren These things are cited out of Steuchus But I finde these testimonies in other places besides Steuchus Flauius Blondus in his 6. booke Decad. 2. Then saith he Iohn king of England fearing that he was not of sufficient force to deale with the French king fled to the mercy of Innocentius the third pope of Rome for making England and Ireland feudataries to the church of Rome by league he promised to pay for either Iland an hundred markes in gold yeerely Antonie of Florence saith * Iohn king of England of his own accord Hist. part 3. tit 19. §. quinto anno 1223. by the counsell of his princes offered and did freely grant to God and his most holie Apostles Peter Paul and to the holie church of Rome and to the lord Innocentius the third being pope all the kingdome of England and also of Ireland with all their rights and appurtenances and he hath done and sworne homage for the same kingdomes to the saide Innocentius the pope that he should hold them hereafter as a feudatarie of the said pope and his successours Whereof also Polidore Virgill maketh mention in his 15. booke By this instrument of the pope if as I said we may giue credence to a priuate writing the realme of England is feudatarie to the pope Go to let vs sée the rest Of the kingdome of Arragonia STeuchus in the selfe same booke * saith Pag. 193. Peter king of Arragonia in the third yeer of the L. Innocentius the third being pope came to Rome to the same Innocentius and he receiued from him solemnely an honorable knighthood and he offered willinglie to S. Peter and to the holie church of Rome his whole kingdome and there he had for his fee the same kingdome Also he appointed to pay a certaine summe of money for the kingdome of Sardinia Of the kingdome of Croatia and Dalmatia STeuchus in the same booke * in the register of Gregorie the seauenth we reade thus In the name of the lord of the holie Pag. 191. and indiuisible Trinitie in the yeere of the Lords incarnation one thousand seuenty sixe in the 14. indiction of the moneth of October I Demetrius which am also called Suinumir by the grace of God duke of Croatia and Dalmatia being made and constituted by thee L. Gebizus hauing the power of Pope Gregorie by the ambassage of the apostolike sea by the synodall and generall election of the whole cleargie and people in the Solantine church of S. Peter and being inuested and appointed king in the gouernment of the kingdome of the Croatians and Dalmatians by the banner sword scepter and crowne to thee I vowe and promise that I will vnchangeably fulfill all things which thy reuerend holines shall inioine me that I may keepe mine oth to the Apostolike sea in all things and that I may keepe irreuocably whatsoeuer as well the sea apostlike as the legates thereof haue or shall establish in this realme that I may execute iustice and defend the church also I appoint to pay to S. Peter yeerely in the resurrection of the Lord the tribute of two hundred Bizanties of al my consulships and primacies for the kingdome granted to me Furthermore seeing to