147 Liberius 27 Linus 23 Lucius 2. 72 Lucius 3. 79 Marcellus 26 Marcellus 2. 165 Martin 1. 36 Martin 2. 50 Martin 4. 91 Martin 5. 118 Miltiades 222 Nicholas 1 49 Nicholas 2. 64 Nicholas 3. 91 Nicholas 4. 92 Nicholas 5. 101 Pascall 1. 42 Pascall 2. 68 Paul 1. 38 Paul 2. 124 Paul 3. 15â— Paul 4. 16â— Saint Peter 20 Pelagius 1. 37 Pelagius 2. 32 Pius 2. 1â—3 Pius 3. 143 Pius 4. 187 Pius 5. 19â— Sabinianus 33 Sergius 2. 4â— Sergius 3. 50 Sergius 4. 59 Siluerius 3â— Siuester 1. 25 Siluester 2. 57 Siluester 3. 61 Symachus 30 Siricius 29 Sistus 4. 126 Sistus 5. 195 Stephen 2. or 3. 21 Stephen 4. or 3. 39 Stephen 5. or 4. 4â— Stephen 6. or 5. 50 Stephen 7. or 6. 50 Stephen 9. or 10. 63 Vrban 2. Vrban 3. 7â— Vrban 4. 88 Vrban 5. 105 Vrban 6. 106 Frban 6. 200 Victor 2. 63 Victor 3. 68 Victor 4. 75 Vigilius 31 Vitellanus 36 Zacharias 37 FINIS Idolatry Exod. 32. Deut. 9. 14. The cause why the Israelites worshipped the molten calfe 1. king 12. 28. The first captiuity of 400. yeares Gen. 15. 13. Act. 7. 6. 2. Captiuitie of 70. yeares Ierem. 25. 12. Ca. 29. 10. 3. Captiuitie of infinite yeares God for vnbeleefe punisheth the Iewes vntill this day Iudges 2. 19. 20 Iudges 5. 8. Two kind of Idolatrie S. Gregorie forbad the Image worship Habakuk 2. 18. 19. Epiphanius Epist ad Hieron Petrus Crinilib 9. de hone sta disciplina Esa 1. 12. Exod. 20. 4. Deut. 5. 8. A true deuision of te ten Commandements The Church of Rome is accursed of God and the cause Deut. 23. 18. Deut. 4. 12. The dutie of a good magistrat to forbid idolatrie Numb 21. 8. The brasen serpent was the image and figure of Christ A Popish distinction betweene Idol Image Pesel what it signifieth Ambrose Erasmus Lactancius Instit lib. 2. cap. 19. Aquinus The argumâ— of both Treâ—tises The argument of the Epistle to the Hebrewes The reason prouing the Pope to be of greater authotie then the Masse Read the booke Ceremon Pontifie 1. Sect. cap. 3. also Sect. 12. cap. 10. 4. Gen. 4. 4. Hebrew 11. 4. Pope Many wordes in old time taken in good part which are now taken in euill Euery Bishop or Minister in old time was called Pope Tome 2. Epist 7. lib. â— The Bishop of Rome seeketh nothing more then to be called Pope Diuision of the Bishops of Rome into 3. orders The first order Saint Peter was not Bishop of Rome Gal. 2. 〈◊〉 This proueth S. Peter was nduep at Rome Rom. 15. 20. Linus Mal. 2. 6. 7. 300 years good bishops in Rome 1. Sisme The 2. order Archbishops Patriarks Liberius an Arrian Felix 2. 2. Sisme That which one Pope doth another vndoeth The Pope erreth in faith Damasus The 3. Sisme 384. Siricius Concerning the forbidding of mariage read afterwards in Gregorie The Pope erreth in the interpretation of the Scripture Boniface 1. Sisme 4. 420. Gelasius 1. Anastasius 2. an heretike Anno 417. the Gothes began to reigne in Spaine Symachus The 5. Sisme 498 Hormisda the the first Patriarke 520 He excommunicated the Emperour Anno. 523. Iohn 1. Ambassadour 6. Sisme Boniface 2. 530. Vigilius The 7. Sisme Pelagius The Primacie of Rome The Cannonists agree not with the Pope The 7. Canonicall houres Iohn 3. contrary to his predecessor Pelagius 2. saâ—â—sfieth the â—mperour 590. The first pardons and indulgences The soule of TraiaÌ„ brought out of Hell Gregorie 1. a great enemy to the Primacy Seruant of Gods seruant Marriage forbidden and againe permitted to priestes 6000. heades of young children in a pond The fruites of Popish single life The saying of Pope Pius 2. agsing constrayned single life Note before vpon Siritius and after in Paul 2. 604. Sabinianus One Pope being dead killed another 605. The 3. order 2. Thes 2. 8. Boniface 3. the 1. Pope Phocas granted Rome to be head of the Churches The fall of the Empire The Pope and Mahomet arise Boniface 4. The false donation of CoÌ„stantine Anno. 613. Deus dedit Godfathers The Gâ—dfather should not marry with the Godmother Boniface 5. The Church a refuge for euill doers Anno. 622. Martinus 1. Crownes Baruc 6. 30. Holy oyntment Vowe of Chasttitie Anno. 653. Vitelanus Diuine seruice in Latine Anno. 672. Agathus 1. Popish constitutions be Apostolicall Mariage to the Greeke priests permitted Anno. 682. Sisme 8. The 9. Sisme Constantine 1. The first Pope that gaue his feete to be kissed Images Anno. 716. dissipation of Spaine Gregorie 2. Gregorie 3. Leo the Emperor excommunicated 731. 741. Zacharias The Church vestments decked with gold c. Making and vnmaking of Kings The king of France most Chrsten and why The donation of Constantine Anno. 752. The king of Spaine Catholique Stephen 2. The donation of Constantine Pipin kissed the Popes feete c. Anno. 757. Paul 1. Exod. 20. A notable lie Anno. 767. The 10. Sisme Constantine 2. a lay man without any order was made Pope The Councell deposeth the Pope The 11. Sisme Stephen 3. Adoration and censing of images Anno 772. Adrian 1. Images Most Christian Anno. 795. The second Councell of Neece Images worshipped The cruelty of a mother Irena an Idolater and a murtherer Leo 3. Two Emperors one in the East another in the West The Popes decrees of more authority then the writings of all the Doctors The Crucifixe of Mantua A most subtill craft to aduaÌ„ce Images Anno. 816. Stephen 4. The Popes excuse for not seeking the consent of the Emperor Anno 817 Pascal 1. was Pope without consent of the Emperour Anno 824. Eugenius 2. The 12. Sisme Gregorie 4. Confirmation of the Emperour Anno 844. Sergius 2. first changed his name Anno 847. Leo 4. promiseth paradise 72 witnesses to condemne a Bishop The Papal crosse A Monke made king S. Peters pence in England Anno 855. Iohn 8. a whore Adout the yeer 1550. An. 852. Pope Ione was chosen The Pope turneth aside and the cause A seat and for what cause A statue in Rome of Pope Ione The ceremonie of the seat now not vsed and the couse A rare example the father son Grand-child Popes none of them either good or honest The Pope is of the common of two genders or els that is worse the boubtfull Rom. 20. 17. Ioh. 14. 26. The faith of the Colliar 1. Pet. 3. 15. Faith is compared to a lampe and why Benedict 3. The 13. Sisme Nicholas 1. The whole driâ—t of this Pope to free himselfe the Clergie from obedience to the Magistrate The Pope called God The diuine office in Latine Blasphemie Read aboue Siricius Gregorie 1. afterwardes Paul 2. and Pius 2. The Masse of a weÌ„ching priest not be heard Anno 867. Martin 2. without consent of the Emperour Anno. 884. Adrian 3. The Emperour lost his right in Rome 885. Stephen 5. The statutes of the Church of Rome necessary to saluation Anno 891.
without consent of the Emperour was made Pope The Emperour leuied a great hoste against Rome Gelasius fearing him went with his partakers to Gaeta When the Emperour was come to Rome hee made another Pope whom they called Gregorie the eight Archbishop of Braga which done the Emperour departed from Rome Gelasius hearing the same came secretely to Rome and boldly went to say Masse in the Church of S. Praxâ—idis where those of the contrary faction did so assault him that he hardly escaped their hands and so fled to Pisa and from thence into France where after he had a yeare and some dayes bene Pope he died In Colonia he held a Councell albeit not present there himselfe where the Emperour was excommunicated He ordained in this Councell that his successors the chiefe Bishops of Rome neither might nor ought to be iudged of anie In the 1119. yeare he died and Don Alonso reigned in Castile In the place where Gelasius died was Calistus the second a Burgoignian by some of the Cardinals that went with him chosen which election some Cardinals abiding in Rome and Italie did also approue He thus made Pope went to Rome where most honorably he was receiued thence sent to command his Legate as then at the Councell to continue the excommunication against the Emperour Who fearing the like should happen to himselfe as did to his father admitted albeit wicked the conditions of peace Gregorie as yet liuing whom he had made Pope This peace concluded Calistus bent himselfe to persecute Gregorie Gregorie seeing his part ouerthrown fled from Rome to Sutrio whither followed Calistus tooke him and with great ignominie brought him to Rome put him into a Monastery This Calistus the more to confirm idolatrie and the better to intertaine superstition made the Church of S. Iames of Galicia an Archbishoppricke and a booke also of S. Iames his miracles In the 1124. yeare he died and Don Alonso 7. reigned in Castile Honorius the second a Bullonist entered not saith Platina rightly into the Popedome For more by ambition then the consent of good men he obtained it The Cardinals chose for Pope Theobald Cardinall of S. Anastasia whom they called Celestine the secoÌ„d This was the 25. Sisme The people sought to haue the Cardinall of Saint Stephen to be Pope There was theÌ„ in Rome a very rich maÌ„ called Leo who so much wrought both with the Cardinals and people that neither the Cardinall of S. Anastasia nor he of Saint Stephen but whom he himself listed called Honorius 2. was Pope Honorius sent into England Iohn of Crema Cardinal of S. Grison his Legate which Cardinall in a Councell by him held in London condemned married Priests and was taken the night following with the theft in his handes with a wicked woman they caught him which as saith Mathew Paris gaue no small scandall to the Church Such be these as were the Pharisies of whom the Lord saith that they binde heauie burthens and hard to beare and put them vpon the shoulders of men but they themselues wil not moue them with one of their fingers Honorius died in the 1130. yeare and Don Alonso 7. reigned in Castile Innocent being Pope shewed great hatred to Rogero king of Sicilia against whom he went forth in battell And as he carried him away vanquished behold the sonne of the king came and tooke the Pope and his Cardinals Now did the Romans make another Pope whom they called Anacletus the second this was the 26. Sisme which Innocent hearing compounded with the king and minding to go to Rome but durst not attempt it He went into France and in Claremount held a Councell where he condemned Anacletus and went to see Philip king of France then Henrie the first king of England and afterwards Lotharius king of Almaine to the end they should restore him to his Popedome Lotharius with a great campe came vpon Rome put to flight Anacletus and in his seat placed Innocent which Pope to shewe himselfe gratefull crowned Lotharius Emperour This Innocent ordained that whosoeuer wounded any Priest or ecclesiastical person should ipso facto be excommunicate and none might absolue him but the Pope himselfe Concil 17. q. 4. Siquis In the 1143. yeare hee died and Don Alonso the seuenth reigned in Castile Lucius 2. was made Pope In whose time the Romans vnable to beare longer the violence and tyrannie of the Popes elected one Patricio a noble man of Rome called Iordan This Patricio demaunding the rights of the citie of Rome aswell within as without the walles said that this right by reason of his office perteined to him which the Pope by meanes of Charles the Great suppressing al the Patricios had so long time vsurped to himselfe He commaunded that the Pope as his predecessors had done should content himself with the first fruits tenths and oblations The Pope seeing himselfe so disquieted by the Romans sent his Ambassadors to the Emperor Conrado requesting him to come into Italie and aide him which Conrado could not do The Pope seeing there was no remedie to be expected by the Emperour vsed this subtiltie He awayted his time when all the Snators of Rome and the Patricio with them were together in the Capitol This oportunitie found the Pope like a good Captaine vtterly to destroy that Senate went with many souldiors in person to the Capitol The bruit of the Popes pretense flue presently through Rome the Romans took armes and fought brauely against the Pope who receiued in the battell so many blowes with stones that thereof shortly after in the 1145. yeare not hauing yet fulfilled a yeare in his Popedome he died Don Alonso 7. reigned in Castile In the time of this Don Alonso 7. and whiles Eugenius 3. successor of Lucius was Pope Don Alonso 1. after he had 27. yeeres bene Earle of Portugal hauing conquered fiue Moorish kings was made king of Portugal and so continued king 46 yeares Anastasius 4. was not so wicked as his predecessours In the second yeare of his Bishopdome he died In his time saith Mathew Paris was William restored to his Archbishopricke of Yorke in England who the same yeere of poyson which in saying Masse they put into the Chalice died Don Alonso 7. then reigned in Castile When Adrian an Englishman and son of Robert a Monke of Saint Albons was chosen he wold not be consecrated vntill Arnold Bishop of Brixta was cast out of Rome This Arnold had perswaded the Romans to recouer their liberty of chusing their magistrates gouerning their common-wealth but the people would not graunt what the Pope demaunded for which cause the Pope did excommunicate them Arnold in the end was expulsed Rome and the Consuls renounced their office At this time came Fredericke the Emperour to Rome the Pope and clergie met him in Sutrio The Emperour
punished But for that the matter was obscure and none in particular but generally were accused they made an edict published it throughout al the Churches of the Archbishoprick of Seuil commanding al euery person of what estate or condition they were which had knowne heard or vnderstoode if any Fryar or Priest whatsoeuer that with their daughter or daughters at confession had to this end abused the sacrament of confession that such person vpon most grieuous payne shoud declare it to the holy office within 30 dayes This decree once published so great was the multitude of women which from Seuill only went to accuse their filthie confessors to the Inquisition that 20 notaries and so many Inquisitors sufficed not to take their depositions The Inquisitors finding themselues much wearied and vnable in 30 dayes to dispatch the businesse gaue them other 30 and yet these 30 not suffising againe and againe they prolonged the time Many honest matrons and many Ladies of qualitie held great warres within themselues The scruple of conscience on the one side to incurre the sentence of excommunication imposed by the Inquisitors vppon such as should conceale it moued them to goe And on the other side they feared lest their husbandes holding them for suspect should become iealous of them And so neither durst they nor yet found oportunitie to goe and speake with the Inquisitors But at last disguised and masked after the manner of Andaluzia as couert as they could they went to the Inquisitors yet how disguised and secret soeuer they were many husbands left not to follow them and watche them earely to knowe whither they went which was the cause of great iealousie On the other side it was a sport to see the priests and Friars fathers of confession to goe sad and sorrowfull hanging downe their heades by reason of their guilty conscience euery hower and mynute expecting when the Familiar of the Inquisition would lay handes vpon them Many of them supposed that a great persecution was to come vppon them yea and greater then that which the Lutherans then suffered yet was all their feare but winde and smoke which passeth away For the Inquisitors by experience foreseeing the great damage that would redound to all the Romane Church if their ecclesiastical persons should be despised and pointed at and the sacrament of confession should not be so prised nor esteemed as before would no further proceed in the busines but interposing their authoritie hushed all thinges as though nothing had euer happened And so no cōfessor was chastised no not those whose villanies were sufficiently proued which thing freed the ecclesiasticall order from great anguish of mind and all their sorrowe was turned into ioy But his day will come vppon such and the Inquisitors that smothered so great villanies and abhominations Who pardoning their friendes and houshold fathers of confession turned all their hate and fury against their enemies the Lutherans whom with fire and bloud they did not onely persecute in Seuill and Valladolid but in many partes of Spaine also And thus was Iesus Christ againe in his members condemned and Barrabas let loose About the 1550. yeare one Don Pedro de Cordoua priest made confession an Instrument to abuse his deuout penitents About 1576 yeare for the like businesse were many Theatinians or Iesuites called Alumbrados in Erena condemned the principall of whom was called Father Ternan daluares who dyed in the gallies Not many yeares since in Sicilia another such like chaunce happened not that which to this purpose saith Machauile in the third booke and first chapter of his discourses I alleage not Machauile because I hold him for Godly but for a wicked polititian doe I hold him the Historie that he recounteth doe I alleage Of all the Romane Bishops as saith Panuinus vpon the life of this Pope very fewe there were that from such lowe beginnings and in such short time had attained so great dignities as did Pius 5. for being a friar Dominick without any other office he came on foote to Rome and within 15 yeares obteined all these offices Inquisitor he was Bishop Cardinall and Pope His name at the font was Anthony because he was borne on S. Anthonies day when he was fifteene yeares old he placed himselfe a Fryar in a monasterie of the Dominicks and called he was Michaell This name he held vntill he was Pope and would then neither be called Anthony which was his Christian name nor Michael which was the name of his order but called himselfe Pius 5. which name well agreeth with the figure called Antiphrasis as when we call a Negro White Iohn So he being Impious called himselfe Pius Cōcerning his electiō might well be said that which said Iohn Bishop and Cardinall of Porta said as Panuinus reporteth of Gregorie 10. Quem patrem patrum fecit discordia fratrum The discorde among the Cardinals made Pius the fift Pope After hee was made Pope he gaue out against the most gracious Queen of England defendresse of the true Catholique faith a most pestilent bull wherin he absolued all her subiects from of their oathe of obedience which they had made and exhorted the Christian Princes to take armes against her This furious and brutish lightning effected no mischiefe al was turned to smoke nothing was heard but a certaine thunderclap noise of gunshot or childernes squibbes And so his bull was foolishnesse a little bubble it was which when is rayneth is made vpon the water and presently vadeth away He that brought this bull to England was caught and as a traitor sentenced to death and quartered the Pope his God on earth being vnable to helpe him nor with all the Masses they sayd for him could draw him out of hell And the Queene in her kingdome liueth and reigneth triumphing ouer her enemies maintaining and defending the holy catholique faith and making her kingdome a receptacle refuge and sanctuarie for poore strangers which from so many parts of Europe flying the tyranny of the Roman Antichrist haue these 40. yeares space with drawne themselues to it The powerfull arme of the most high God all sufficient whose name is Iehoua hath done this to him be the glory for euer euer amen For besides him is there no God cōfounded then be they that serue and worship carued Images those that worship Idols sith they neither can helpe them nor yet doe goodnesse This Impius 5. spunged out of Petrarque and Bocace the famous Italian Poets all that which with great liberty and truth they had said concerning the Pope the court of Rome and ecclesiastcall persons For ye must note that before God raised vp Luther and others more that succeeded the Italians and chiefly the subtill and free witted Florentines were those that with their liuely collours and proper shaddowes painted out the Pope his Roman Court and clergie Read Dant Petrark and Bocace but beware they be not those which the Pope hath gelded and thou
to suffer also for this faith and confession whensoeuer he pleaseth with persecution to proue vs. Concerning that which men haue of their owne heades haue inuented That the Pope is our chiefe Bishop the successour of Saint Peter the vicar of Christ God vppon earth and that as such a one he pardoneth sinnes draweth out of hell and purgatorie what soules he will and what soules hee will hee placeth in heauen And that the Masse such as now they say is a sacrifice as satisfactorie as was the death and passion of Christ None of these things doth the holy scripture teach vs it is humane inuention and diuelish lies wherwith Sathan hath long time deceiued vs. The Apostle Saint Paul willing to correct the vices brought into the holy supper of the Lord in the Church of Corinth found no better remedy but to reduce it to the originall and first institution And so 1. Cor. 11 he saith I receiued of the Lord that which I haue giuen you c. so now do we also the same We restore the supper of the Lord and celebrate it according to it first institution as the Euangelists and Saint Paul doe declare vnto vs. And if so we do thē haue they no cause to hold vs for heretikes but for good faithfull and catholike Christians and for such do we hold our selues and such we are albeit is the many imperfections the Lord pardon them vnto vs. We confesse we hold beleeue that God through the merit of Christ is our father and the holy catholike or vniuersall Apostololike and true Church whē it is ruled by the word of God in the sacred scripture of the olde and new Testament reuealed For otherwise is she no mother but a Stepmother our mother And wo to that man which shall not be son of this father and this mother We confesse hold and beleeue all that which this our mother confesseth holdeth belieueth All which is conteyned in the bookes of the old new Testament For nothing there is which we ought either to do or belieue which is not writtē in these sacred bookes Therefore will we conclude this Treatise saying That whosoeuer albeit an Angell from heauen shall preach or beliue another Gospell another Doctrine besides that which Iesus Christ and his Apostles haue taught vs all which is written in the bookes which we call the holy scripture Let such a one be accursed and execrable Let him be as saith Saint Paule Anathema Thou hast hard Christian Reader the Enormious charges wherewith we charge the Pope as touching life Doctrine But chiefly touching the superstition and Idolatrie of the Masse which the sayd Pope of himselfe without the word of God hath inuented and brought into the Church Thou hast also heard the Enormious charges where with the Pope chargeth vs. Hee accuseth vs for proud contentious and arrogant that we will know more then all the whole Church He accuseth vs for disobedient to Magistrates disturbers of common-wealthes prouinces and kingdomes he accuseth vs for schismatiques and heretiques For the which as an accuser witnes and Iudge he concludeth that we are not worthy to liue in the world But it is not sufficient to accuse Of necessity must he proue that which hee saith and so conuince the accused Come we then to the proofe let a generall Councell be assembled which may heare both parts Let it graunt to euery part freedome of speech The Councell hauing heard both sides let it iudge according to the thing alleaged and proued without respect of any person poore or rich wise or ignorant ecclesiasticall or secular Let it only haue regard of iustice equity and truth Let the part conuinced by the Testimony of holy scripture and of the fathers also and ancient Councels As be the first foure generall be subiect to the censure which the Councell shall ordayne Let the Pope and his defendors appeare personally in the Councell not as iudges because they accuse vs and we accuse them but as accusers and accused Let vs also appeare seeing we accuse them and they accuse vs. Let this Councell be called As were the foure first generall Nicen 1. the Constantinople the Ephesian and the Chalcedonian This is the onely remedie to take away the dissentions and differences which are at this day in the Church as touching life and Doctrine This remedy in times past vsed the Church in like cases In the meane time beseech we our God to moue the hartes of the Emperour Christian kinges and Princes that they may take in hand such an Enterprise for the glorie of God quietnesse of his Church By the meanes of which Enterprise vice and false Doctrine superstitition here sie and Idolatrie may be condemned And vertue and wholesome Doctrine conteyned in holie scripture confirmed But our aduersaries will say vnto mee that all this in the last Councell of Trent was concluded and that therefore another Councell is not needefull Whereunto I answere that which so often in this booke I haue sayd And chiefly vppon the life of Pope Marcellus the second That this Councell was not free Sith to none whereof was had the least suspition in the world not to bee in all and by all slaue of the Pope and sworne to the Pope was it permited to speake therein The rest which haue there sayd to this purpose and that which is sayd in the foure hundred fifty and eight and foure hundred fifty and nine pages is to be noted besides this say we that this Councel was not generall For how shall the Councel of Trent be called an Ecumenicall vniuersall or generall Councell Sith in it was not found the hundreth part of Bishoppes of Christendome And that this is truth it is euidently seene For in it were found but fiue Cardinals Three of which were legats of the Pope foure Archbishops two of which were Archbishops in title or as we call them in Spaine de anillo of the ring namely Olaus magnus intitled Archbishoppe not of Hispall but of Vpsall people of Gocia that neuer acknowledged the Pope nor the Roman Church The other named Robert Venant called Archbishop of Armagh in Ireland vnder the Crowne of England A land that as litle acknowledgeth the Pope These two poore Archbishops Paul the third maintayned giuing to Olaus 15 crownes a month and another like thing gaue he to Robert 33 Bishops were found there all of them Spaniards or Italians except only 3. Then were also found betweene priests Friars 47. diuines Of whom all al most were Spaniards or Italians Thou seest here the great nomber of bishops with which the Trident Coūcell began which by times conteyned 18 yeares In which time were holden 25 Sessions In many of which nothing was done for want of appearence in the Councel And so in the 8 Session was nothing done but that the Italians transported the Councell to Bologna aland of the popes in Italy Where was held the
ninth Session Where in as little then did they For the Spaniards and the rest except the Italians stayed at Trent willing to end the Councell where it was begun The 10. Session was held in Bologna wherein was nothing done For those of Trent there abode expecting them of Bologna and those of Bologna expected them of Trent And so in this 10 Session was there no other thing done but a prolongation to the 15. of September Which day being come they did nothing also so the one and the other for a long time brake vp the Councell In this time died Paule 3. and Iulius 3. succeeded him who at the importunity of the Emperour being much displeased at the translation and discontinuance of the Councel commanded that the Session following should the first day of May 1557. be holded at Trent wherein nothing else was concluded but that the twelfth Session should be holden the first day of September which day being come As little was ought done For the prelates were not yet come In the thirteenth Session were found fourtie Bishops and fourty two diuines In the 15. Session was there nothing done In the 16. Session no other thing was concluded but the suspension of the Councell for two yeares And so Iulius 3. Marcellus 2. Paul 4. Pius 4. was elected in whose time the rest of the Sessions were holden The number of Bishoppes then increased the Councell was ended and confirmed by the Pope For knowe this that all is nought woorth whatsoeuer the Councell decreeth if it bee not confirmed by the Pope Knowe also that so subiect was this Councell to the Pope that it made a decree Wherein it was ordayned that all whatsoeuer was in the Councell ordayned was intended So that it nothing derogated from the Authoritie and commodity of the Pope and the Councell was not only subiect to the Pope but to whatsoeuer other Bishops also And so in the 18 decree it was ordayned that the Bishops and the rest to whom it should appertayne might dispense with whatsoeuer decree or decrees of this Councell so that he knew the cause commoditie so required This decree was it which gaue most content to the Ecclesiasticall persons For by vertue of this decree each thing remayneth polluted as before and so nothing reformed So that the ecclesiasticall Lordes take courage reioyce because if there be any thing in this Councell that seemeth ouer harsh hard or bitter irksome they reioyce I say For that by vertue of this decree shall they easily for money haue dispensation of the Bishop or of the Pope Which dispensation will make them so tender and so as a peece of soft bread and so sweete as the honie Moreouer this Councell was not admitted of the kings of England and Denmarke nor of the Protestant princes nor of the common wealthes of Germany All these be one good part of Christendome inhabiting in Europe But they will say vnto me that these which I haue named be heretiques Whereunto I answere that if they hold them for heretiques for the same cause are they to be suffered to speake freely that which they thinke in the Councell Their sayings being heard they ought to dispute with them and conuince them by the bookes of holy scripture And by that which the Doctors and auncient Councels gouerned by Gods word belieued and maintayned And now that they say the foresayd protestants to be heretiques What will they tell me of kings of Fraunce whom the Pope himselfe calleth most Christian for the great seruice they haue done to the seat Apostolique which tooke not this of Trent for a generall Councel nor lawfully called And so Frauncis 1. sent not of all his kingdome one prelate or diuine to the Councel No more did his sonne Henry that succeeded him in his kingdome he tooke it not for a generall Councell As by the protestation which this king in the 1551. yeare by his Embassadours made in the Councell was proued The report is this Iames de Annot Abbot de Bellosana Embassadours of the king came sodainely vnto Trent presented to the Councell a letter from his king The superscription whereof sayd To the assembly of Trent Asmuch to say As to the meeting at Trent This superscription being read the Spanish Bishops spake saying that such a letter was in contempt of the Councell and that it ought not to be read nor yet opened But notwithstanding the rest of the Councel after they had well debated the buisines concluded that the letter ought be opened and read presupposing that most Christian king had not vsed such a superscription either for contempt of the Councel nor to derogate from it authority and so was it read The some of this letter was that he protested as before he had protested in Rome that he could not send to Trent by reason of the warres the Bishops of his kingdome He said also that he held not this Councel for general or lawful but for a particular meeting calnot for the publique good of Christendome the which ought led togither for the profit cōmoditie of some particular persō to be the principal cause of the calling togither of a Councel That he thought neither himselfe nor his subiects bound to obserue the decrees that there in should be made But that concerning the same he will vse if need should be the remedies which his progenitors had in the like cases vsed c. And the king of Fraunce not contented to haue made this protestation in Rome and in the Councell but passed yet further and sent an Embassadour called Marlot and of his Councell to the assembly which the Cantons of the Swizers held at Bade to persuade them not to take this of Trent for a Councel nor to make any reckoning thereof Whereunto he persuaded also the same Cantons which were papists The Grisons also which had sent Thomas Planta their Bishop to the Councell nor approuing the Councell caused him to returne home They will not say Frauncis and Henry his sonne kings of Fraunce to be Lutherans but most Christen as our aduersaries the papists themselues cal them which hold not for a Councell the Councell of Trent but an assembly of particular persons for their particular profit The same account then that so many Nations kings mightie princes and great States of Europe not of the protestants onely but also of the papists without passing to the Christians of Affrique and Asia none of whom doe I know or haue read to be found in this Councell made of this Councell make wee also so demand we a Councel general lawfull free where each one may freely speake his opinion Let the Councell and not the Bishops onely who only with a deliberate voice haue tyrannically lift vp themselues examine iudge what euerie one shall say according to the word of God Were there such a Councell God we trust would giue vs speech and wisdome to maintaine defend
of the first Table which saith Thou shalt not make to thy selfe anie Image c. And in murthering her sonne she sinned against the second Table which saith Thou shalt not kill This is that holy Irena so much celebrated of the Papists Leo 3. acknowledging the benefites of Charles the great gaue him the title and crowned him Emperour but with this condition that the Emperour with an oath should promise him obedience This Leo commaunded that the Decrees of the Pope should be of more authority then the writings of all the Doctors In Mantua at this time a citie of Italie was a woodden Crucifixe which they affirmed did sweate bloud When Pope Leo the third heard this newes he went to Mantua and there seeing as hee said the miracle commaunded this bloud to be holden for the true bloud of Christ And to this day at Mantua is this Crucifixe seene and worshipped Of this bloud maketh mention Baptista Mantuanus saying Et quae purpureus sanguis faciebat in horas Mira opera intuitus credi debere putauit Effusum nostra pro libertate cruorem Which signifieth the Idolatrie before mentioned What diuell could more inuent to raise vp and authorize images which in Greece were vtterlie abolished In the 816. yeere died Leo the third hauing bene Pope more then 20 yeares At this time in Spaine reigned Don Bermudo Stephen the fourth or the fifth who succeeded Leo was chosen without consent of the Emperour wherefore to excuse himselfe to the Emperour Lodouicus pius after 3 moneths he went into France Lewis answered that what was past was past but they shold afterward beware of doing the like Behold here how the Popes obserue their owne Decrees Adrian and Leo imediate predecessors of Stephen made this decree but Stephen did nothing regarde it The Pope considering that this decree which gaue such authoritie to the Emperour might cause great euill to the Sea Apostolike returned from France to Rome and perceiuing the Emperour to be of gentle and milde nature he attempted to disanull it saying that the election of the chiefe Bishop pertained to the Clergie Senate people of Rome And not to prouoke the Emperour he smothed this abrogation saying that they aboue named without licence of the Emperour might choose the chiefe Bishop but consecrate or as they call it crowne him without the presence of the Emperour or his vicar they could not In the 817. yeere died Stephen and Don Alonso the 2. surnamed the chast then reigned in Spaine Pascall the first following the steppes of Stephen without consent of the Emperour was elected Pope and when the Emperour complained of this election he craftily cleared himselfe Pascal died in the 824. yeare Don Alonso theÌ„ reigning in Spain Eugenius 2. succeeded Pascal in whose time the 12. Sisme betweene Eugenius Zinzinus arose After Eugenius succeeded Valentinus And after Valentinus Gregorie the fourth Gregorie 4. would not be Pope vntill the Emperour had confirmed his election He died in the 844. yeare And D. Ramiro the first then reigned in Spain Sergius 2. was the first Pope that changed his name before he was Pope he was called Swines-mouth Lotharius the Emperour senâ— Lewis his sonne to Rome to confirme the election of this Pope This confirmation the Popes expected vntil AdriaÌ„ 3. ordained that it should not be respected Sergius 2. died in the 847. yeare and Don Ordono then reigned in Spaine Leo the fourth was the first that promised Paradise to such as in defence of the sea Apostolike would fight against the infidels He made a Decree that the Bishop shold not be condemned but by the testimonie of 72 witnesses He was the first that against the Cannon of the Councell of Aquisgrana adorned with precious stones his Crosse Papall and caused it to be borne before him He gaue his feete to be kissed of the people and in the 847. yeare he dispensed with Ethelulpheus of a Monke to be made king of England For this benefite commaunded the king that each house in England should pay euery yeare to the Pope a penie which they called Saint Peters penie sixe of which pence make a Spanish Ryall In the 855. yeare he died and Don Alonso the third then reigned in Spaine Iohn the eight an English woman or to speake better Ione alone of that name before called Gilbert succeeded Leo the 4. In her is plainly fulfilled without figure or allegorie that which Saint Iohn in the 17. chap. of his Reuelation saith of the whore of Babylon for she was a woman and a whore Such as list to know her life let them reade Platina vpon the life of Iohn the eight Sabel En. 8. lib. Volat. libr. 22. Berg. lib. 11. Boccace of famous women Fascic tempor Mant. vpon Alphonsus lib. 3. Enchiridion ef times Rodrigo Sanchez vpon Don Alonso 3. and Pero Mexia vpon the liues of the Emperours and in his Sylua variarum lection where of her hee maketh one whole chapter This Pero Mexia was a man very superstitious and wholly a Papist who procured what he might to quench the light of the Gospell which at his time in Sâ—uill was kindled He greatly persecuted the good Doctor Egidius or to say better Christ in Egidius and other his members Notwithstanding that he was so great a Papist yet could he not but speake note so so great an infamy blow to the Church of Rome For authors of that he saith coÌ„cerning this woman Pope he citeth in his histories Martin Platina Sabellicus S. Antonino In the 9. ch of his Sylua thus speaketh Pero Mexia There is none almost but knoweth or hath read or hard that there was a womaÌ„ Pope which went in mans apparell but because all men know not how this thing hapned and for that it was one of the wonderfull chances that euer hapned in the world I will here declare as in faithfull authors I find it written There was a woman borne in England who with a man greatly learned liued in her youth a dishonest life of whom being welbeloued and he of her taking mans habite and calling her selfe Iohn shee left her natiue countrie and went with him to the citie of Athens in Grecia wherein at that time was a great Vniuersitie and generall studie With her excellent wit and great studie shee there so much learned and attained such knowledge that some yeares after she came to the citie of Rome alwayes in the habite of a man tooke the Chaire and taught openly in which and in publike disputations shee caried such estimation that she was holden for the most learned man of that time and such fauour and authoritie among all men obtained that the seate Apostolike by the death of Leo the fourth of that name being voyd in the yeare of the Lord 852. supposed to be a man she was chosen for chiefe
as theÌ„ could it not be for Leo 6. was chosen who liued but 7. moneths and dyed as they say of poyson giuen him by Marozia to make her bastard to be Pope Yet fayled he at this time also and Stephen the 7. or the 8. was elected who many yeares enioyed not his bishopdom In the 930. yeere not without suspition of poyson he dyed And D. Sancho 1. then reigned in Spaine Iohn 12. or 11. was the bastard son of Sergius 3. and of Marozia that shameles whore as Luithprandus calleth her Platina supposeth that this Iohn and Iohn 11. were brothers the sonnes of Sergius 3. Marozia the mother of this Pope in her sonnes time also as before both in the temporalty and spiritualty as noteth Luithprandus gouerned the Roman Church In the 935. yeare he dyed And Raâ—iro 3. then reigned in Spaine After Iohn Leo 7. Stephen 9. Martin 3. Agapetus Iohn 13. succeeded Iohn 13. or 11. of all the Popes before his time was the greatest villaine Fryar Iohn de Peneda in his ecclesiasticall monarchie pag. 3. lib. 19 calleth him Iohn the sinner and in the ¶ 1. he saith An infernall monster in his liuing the sonne of Alberto a mightie Roman succeeded Agapeto who with requests money and threates caused his sonne called Octauian to be chosen and after being Pope he was called Iohn And a little lower he was of cursed life in cruelties and huntings most vnhonest lustes c. who listeth to know his villanies let him read Luithprandus from the 6. ch of the 6. book vnto the 11. In a Synod at Rome presence of the Emperour Otho 4 he was accused for not recititing his howers that saying Masse he did not communicate that he ordained Deacons in a stable that he had committed incest with two sisters to make him win at dice-play that he had inuocated diuels that for money he made younglings Bishops defloured maidens turned his sacred palace to a stewes lyen with Stephana his fathers concubiâ—e and with the widdow Reynera and with another widdow called Anna and with his neece that he had made his Confessor blind that he went publikely a hunting that he went armed that he had caused fire to be kindled that he had broken downe doores and windowes in the night season that in wine he had drunke to the diuel c. for these and other like abhominatious he was deposed in the Romane Councell and Leo 8. chosen But when the Emperour was departed those wicked women with whom he accompanied incited the Nobility of Rome by promising theÌ„ the treasures of Rome to receiue Iohn for Pope which they did to thrust out Leâ— This Pope Iohn ordeined that the Emperor theÌ„ce forth should be crowned by the Pope in Rome The end of this cursed Pope was this In the yeare 964. 10. yere of his bishopdom he was stabbed to death by the husband of one with whoÌ„ he was taken in adulterie The diuel saith Luithprandus in his 6. booke 11. ch did so wound him in the verie act of adultery that within 8 dayes after he died It may be that the husbaÌ„d was arrayed in figure of a diuell to kill the Pope Read this historie ô ye Spaniards behold what a one is the Pope for whom ye wontedly hazard your goods honors liues God for his mercies sake the honor of his son Christ Iesus giue you the grace to know him In the time of this dissolute carnall Pope the married Priests in England were cast out of the Cathedrall Churches Don Bermudo reigned in Spaine In the yeare 963. betweene Leo and Benedict was the 16. Sisme Iohn 13. being dead through partiality Benedict 5. was elected but Otho the Emperor came to Rome coÌ„pelled the Romans to deliuer vp Benedict 5. receiue againe Leo whom they had cast froÌ„ the Popedome Which benefit receiued of the Emperour Leo eftsoones Pope acknowledging made a synodall decree wherin he tooke away from the Clergie and people of Rome the authority to make the Pope giuen theÌ„ as saith Gracian by Charles the great gaue it to the Emperour adnulled the Law made by Adrian against him This did Leo to auoyd seditions that wontedly hapned in the elections of the Popes the Emperor restored vnto him that which Constantine they say had giuen to the Pope or rather that which Pipin Charles taking it froÌ„ the Lombards gaue theÌ„ In the 965. yeare died Leo. At what time in Spaine reigned Alonso 5. who wouÌ„ded with an arrow which was shot by a Moore at thesiege of Viseo died Iohn 14. or 13. son of Pope Iohn 12. was against his enemies extremely cruel as by one Peter a chiefe Magistrate in Rome appeareth Frier Ioh. de Pin. par 3. lib. 19. cap. 11. ¶ 1. concerning him saith The Pope caused a certaine gouernor to be hanged one day by the haires set naked vpoÌ„ a horse of the Emp. Constastantine afterwards set him to tide vpon an asse with his face backward a beasts skin vpoÌ„ his head to be whipped through the citie afterwards to be put in prison and lastly banished into Almaine He more resembled Phalaris Dionysius Nero other such tyrants theÌ„ Christ who coÌ„mands vs to loue do good to our enemies He it was that baptised the great bell of S. Iohn de Lateran gaue it his name froÌ„ whence sprang the custome to baptize and giue names vnto bels In the 972 yeare he died Donus 2. succeeded Iohn 14. he was Pope onely 3 moneths whoÌ„ Benedict 6. or 5. not counting the 5. which was made in the Sisme succeeded For his villanies was he cast into prison where he was strangled or as say his friends at coÌ„mandement of his successor Boniface he died of hunger Alonso 5. then reigning in Spaine Between Boniface Benedict 6 or 7. was the 17. Sisme Boniface 7. through wicked artes made himselfe Pope but a smal time coÌ„tinued for the Romans coÌ„spired against him who seing himself vnable to preuaile robbed al the treasure found in the church of S. Peter therwithal went to Constantinople wherof making sale after some moneths with much siluer he returned to Rome whiles he was absent from Rome the Romanes made pope Iohn 15. or 14. but Boniface with his money corrupted the Romans so they turned to receiue him for Pope who eftsoons being Pope imprisoned Iohn the fifteenth pulled out his eyes and famished him to death In the 976. yeare died Boniface after he had bene Pope 9 yeares and more Of him saith Friar Iohn de Pineda part 3. lib. 19. cap. 15. ¶ 1. Boniface but a while liued after that he returned to the seate and sodainely died towards whom the Romanes shewed the loue which they bare him taking his dead body and giuing it a thousand blowes and
principal rich houses of that famous citie So wonderfull almost neuer seene was this calamitie that it was taken for a thing myraculous For the neighbour houses and neere adioyning to those that burned were not onely burned but the fire in a moment did leape from one streete to another farre of distant and beginning at the top of the house brought the whole presently with it to the earth Many marchandizes much wheat wine and other thinges which by reason of the great furie and fiercenesse of the fire could not be put in safe keepeing were lost The whole Citie was greatly troubled because none could know how or by whom the fire was kindled And all feared that it was some coniuration of the Lutherans And a little lower There is made euery yeare vpon Saint Mathewes day a most solemne procession to intreat our Lord to be pleased by the meanes of his holy Apostle to deliuer the citie from the like plague tribulatiō Thus far D. Illescas To the selfe same purpose wil I here also recount a very pleasant tale which I read in a historie I my selfe also heard D. Bourne who in Queene Maries time was bishop of Bathe in England tell the same The historie is this In the time of K. Henry 8. one Malary maister of Arte of the vniuersity of Cambridge was for profession of the Gospel of Iesus Christ condemned to doe publique penance in the Church of S. Mary in the vniuersitie of Oxford The penance was that he should publiquely recant and beare vpon his backe a faggot for the terrour of the studentes of that vniuersitie And for the more solempnitie of this recantation D. Smith diuinitie reader preached The principall and only matter which he handled in his sermon was concerning the Sacramēt of the altar The Doctor for more confirmation and credit of that he had to say in his sermon caused their holy and catholique peace of White bread which they call the Sacrament of the altar to be hanged in the pulpit before him To this spectacle ran very much people aswell students as citizens which heard the sermon with great attention hardly had the doctor halfe finished his sermon when a voyce of one that cried in the streete Fire fire was suddenly heard in the Church The cause of the crie was for that one comming along the streete espied a chimnie on fire and after the English vse in such cases he cried through the strete Fire fire Whē they within the Church nere to the doore heard fire fire they also began to say fire fire And so frō mouth to mouth went fire fire euen to the doctors the preacher himselfe who at the hearing of fire fire remayned astonished with the great feare he conceiued and marueyling what it might be began to lift vp his eyes and behold on all sides the roofe and walles of the Church His auditorie seeing him looke vp began with a loud voyce to crie Fire fire some demaunded of other some where see yee the fire To this demaunde one answered In the Church◠Hardly had the other answered In the Church when all in a moment began to crie out The Church burneth the heretiques haue set the Church on fire And albeit no man sawe any fire all notwithstanding together cryed Fire fire and each one supposed that was truth which he heard Then feared they indeede such was the concourse and tumult in the Church that cannot with wordes be expressed such as haue found themselues in the like cases haue experience thereof This strong Imagination of fire possessing their heades all whatsoeuer they saw or heard confirmed and increased in them the imagination conceiued The principall cause that augmented this suspition was to see him with his faggot whom they held for an heretique This made them beleue that al the other heretiques had ioyntly conspired with him to set fire on the Church The great dust which with the vnquietnes concourse tumult of the people was raised in the Church did augment in thē also this suspitiō This dust then seemed to be smoke of the fire which they had imagined This concourse was also the cause that many came to their deathes for the small ribs bones were broken whereof many died The people flocked to the doores of the Church but so great was the throng presse that none could go out of the Church In the end seeing no remedie they begā to crie out against the cōspiracie of the heretikes which had kindled the fire to burne thē aliue It was a world to see those great rabbines those great doctors with their long scarlet robes doctorall habits runne from one side to another blowing panting and sweating seeking some corners where to hide themselues In all this cōpany was there none more quiet then the poore penitent heretique who throwing from him the faggot it fell vpon the head of a Friar that was next him so abode quiet expecting what God would doe with him Among thē al was there none more feareful nor more cried out for feare then Smith the preacher who with the first began to crie from the pulpit saying These be the webs crafts of the heretiques against me Lord haue mercie vpō me Lord haue mercy vpō me But his breaddē God which he called Lord was hanged as we haue said neere vnto him could not quiet him Nought in this garboile more caused thē to feare then when the lead was to begin to melt for ye must know that many Churches in England are couered with lead many of thē began now to affirme that the molten lead fell vpon thē Then were they amased many of them that had authoritie cōmand seeing that neither by force regard of their learning nor authoritie they could ought preuaile they chāged their purpose began to vse very gentle words promising to them they would pull them from that daunger albeit by the eares a good reward There was a man that gaue 20 pound euery pound is forty Spanish ryals an other promised his garment others other like thinges They that might placed thēselues in the hollownes betweene pillar pillar that the lead which they said was moltē should not fal vpō thē A maister of the Colledge ther was which vnnailed a table couered therwith his head shoulders that the lead should worke him no anoyance There was a mā albeit very grosse who seeing there was no meanes to goe out of the Church needs would be breaking of the glasse to go out by the pane of a window but half of his body being forth he stuck fast in the grate so that he was not maister of himselfe nor could he go forward nor backward The poore paunched monke saw his danger doubled for if the fire or moulten lead should fal without that part then that was without the window would be in danger if it fell within the Church the part then within was in
young maidens also This was the first occasion of the warres This warre ended others much more great had they wherein they so much increased and inriched themselues that not contented with Italy they made warres also vpon forreigne nations and leauing their owne limits they inuaded Affrike and Asia Thus were they dayly increasing vntill another Prince and Lord arose vp in Rome thrusting himselfe into the same seat of the Empire and at the side as it were of the Roman Emperour This new Prince at the first made no shew that he purposed ought to diminish the authority of the Emperor but only took care of the affaires of the Church wherein whiles he was so employed the strength of the Emperour Empire flourished But afterwards he began to thinke how to benefite himselfe of that opinion of religion and holinesse which he held and to attaine hereunto he doubted not to intreat the Emperour that by his authority he might hold the souereignty ouer all Churches The cause that this new Prince alleaged was that Rome was alwayes the Lady of the whole world and therefore was it meet that the Bishop of that city shuld go before other Bishops in degree dignity To obtaine this was a thing most difficult For albeit that the Emperour let it slip yet did the Bishops of other nations confidently gainesay him alleaging lawfull causes why they withstood him vnwilling to acknowledge the Bishop of Rome otherwise then for a brother companion and in power equall with them Notwithstanding all this he of Rome forslowed not but continually vrged to attaine to his purpose vntill he obtained of Phocas the Emperour who murthered Mauricius his good Lord and Emperour that which he would and so called himselfe vniuersall Bishop and what besides he best pleased Here may ye see that olde Rome was founded vpon one murder and the new which is the Popedome vppon another In this concerning the primacie was the Pope merely oposit to Christ who sharpely in his disciples reproued the like strife and ambition But the Pope mounted to this height by the benefit of the Emperours did nowe further dare to promise to himselfe greater matters yet long time proceeding with great dissimulation A hundred yeares almost after the death of Constantine the great was the Empire much weakned it lost Fraunce England and Almaine The Hunnes held Italie the Vandals Africke Such was the dissipation that the Emperours leauing Rome which is in the West went to Constantinople where they made their abode The Bishop of Rome seeing the scattering of the Empire minded not to let slippe occasion but armed a question for his parte against the Emperour The chiefe cause was that the Emperour commaunded all statues and Images to be taken out of the Churches So greatly did the Pope withstand this commaund that hee dared to excommunicate the Emperour so much nowe was the horne increased At this time in the East arose vp Mahomet who tooke many landes form the Empire The Emperours notwithstanding would haue it vnderstood that all the dignitie power and Maiestie which the Pope did hold depended vppon them The Pope then to bee freed from this subiection and the warres which the king of Lumbardie made in italie deuised a notable policie and this it was To aduaunce of himselfe another whom he liked and to name him Emperour of the Romans Who accknowledging the benefit should deeme himselfe happie to please and serue him in all that he would And so Charles the great he elected and declared Emperour who had chased out of Italie the king of Lumbardy and enemie to the Pope This caused great anger and strife betweene the Easterne and Westerne Emperours and not betweene them onely but the Churches also of both the one and other partie of all which the couetousnes and ambition of the Pope of Rome were the cause Much contention was there afterwards among the Italians French and Almaynes about the election of the Emperour But in the end when Otho the third Duke of Saxoni◠was Emperour and Gregorie 5. an Almayne Pope order was giuen that seuen electors should choose the Emperour as in the life of this Gregorie the fift we haue declared And this was done to exclude straunge nations that none but an Almayne should be Emperour Great garboyles arose afterwardes betweene the Pope and the Emperour who could no longer endure the vnmeasurable arrogancie and ambition of the Pope Reade the Histories of Henry the third and fourth and of Frederick the first second and to come neerer our time those of the Emperour Charles 5. whose host in the 1527. yeare sacked Rome tooke Pope Clement 7. and held him prisoner This Clement as sang the Spaniardes at the Popes windowe whiles hee was prisoner would haue taken away the cloke from the Emperour as vppon the life of this Clement we haue before declared So also sought Paule the fourth to take away the cloake from our king Don Philip the second The kingdome of Naples would he haue taken from him but the host of the king whose captaine was the Duke Dalua put the Pope into such a straight that he was contented to make peace and chiefly hearing of the taking of Saint Quintans which was in the 1557. yeare as vppon the life of this Paul the fourth before we haue said So proud is the Pope become that he hath made the forme of an oath the which he causeth the Emperour to sweare being in time past his maister and Lord and so Saint Gregorie called Lord the good Emperour Mauricius but now is he his seruaunt and vassall This forme of oath conteyneth that the Emperour by all possible wayes keepe increase and defend the goodes of the Roman Church and chiefe Bishopes their dignitie priueledges and decrees And so no Emperour but if he would be holden infamous a faith breaker durst in any thing contradict him The oath which the Emperour Charles 5. made to Clement 7. or 8. in the 1530. yeare at the time of his Coronation will I here put downe Ego Carolus Romanorū rex c. That is to say I Charles king of the Romans which by Gods assistance hold to be Emperour promise protest affirme and sweare to God blessed S. Peter that I will henceforth be protector and defendor of the chiefe Bishop and of the holy Church of Rome in all their necessities and profits keeping and preseruing their possessions dignities and rightes c. When he had made this oath was Don Charles made king of Lumbardy and after he was king of Lumbardy another oath in this forme hee made Ego Carolus c. I Charles king of the Romanes and Lumbardes promise and sweare by the father sonne and holy Ghost and by the word of the liuing flesh and by these holy reliques that if the Lord permit mee to come to be Emperour I shall to my power aduaunce to holy Romane Church the holinesse thereof and her
without subiect but are made of the bread and of the wine which is corrupted or burned Now for confirmation of that which we haue sayd we will set downe an Appendix or addition which with wonderfull examples will liuely declare the estimation wherein the Popes and their people which the call ecclesiasticall hold their Sacrament which they sell vnto vs for God And wee as sencelesse and ouer-suerstitious for money doe buy it Open thine eyes ô Spaine and be no more by the Pope deceiued Pope Gregory the seuenth which before was called Hildebrand was as in his life we haue sayd a terrible and mortall enemie of the good Emperour Henry the fourth so desperately procured by all wayes and meanes possible now by force now by dececit now by inchantments to pull him out of the world And for that purpose suborned with promise of reward a certaine man c. as in the life of the said Gregorie wee haue declared Cardinall Benon goeth further he saith that the Pope with high voyce from the pulpit vpon the feast of the resurrection at Easter had prophecied the death of the Emperour Henrie saying Hold me not for Pope but cast me from the Altar if that which I say vnto you bee not fulfilled betweene this and Pentecost and so to proue a true prophet in this which he had spoken he suborned certaine Traytors that secretly shold kill the Emperor As in dede they had killed him had not God preserued him The sayd Cardinall sayeth further that this Hildebrand or Gregory 7. euer wontedly carried with him a booke of Nigromancie that was to him very familiar He cast saith hee the consecrated Host into the fire and burned it Because demaunding of it a reuelation against the Emperour it answered him not albeit the Cardinals which then were present therein gainsayd him Iohn Bishop of Porta Secertarie of the said Gregorie the seuenth alleageth Cardinall Benon for confirmation of that which is sayd A strange case it is to cast the Sacrament into the fire for that coniuring it it gaue him not answer against the Emperour Our aduersaries cannot denie this Pope to haue erred in the faith and also to haue bene an Athiest without God or religion seeing that he burned his Creator If he beleeued it to be his Creator why did he burne it And if he beleeued it not as most of the Popes doe not beleeue it why did he with fire and bloud persecute those that did not beleeue it Miserable is the God which is subiect to burning The true God is immortall hee liueth for euer Moreouer many Popes and ecclesiasticall men doe wee reade in histories to haue poysoned those whom they would kill giuing them poyson in the Sacrament it self Two or three examples will I here set downe who so list to know more let him reade the liues of the Popes and of the Emperours Of poison died Victor the third in the 1088. yeare which his Subdeacon had cast into the chalice Don Alonso de Cartagena Bishop of Burges in his historie called Anacephaleosis maketh mention hereof William as reporteth Mathew Paris was restored to his Archbishoppricke of Yorke in England and in the same yeare died of poyson which in saying of Masse they cast into the chalice as vpon Anastasius the fourth in the 1146. yeare we haue sayd In the 1314. yeare a Dominican Frier gaue poyson in the sacrament to the Emperor Henry 7. countie of Lucemburg as we haue declared vppon Clement the 5. The history is worrthy to be read It noteth the great impietie and treason of the Frier and the great patience of the Emperour after he perceiued himselfe to be poysoned praying the Frier to flie least his Almaines should kill him saying Vade Domine depart Lord c. Pero Mexia maketh mention of this in the life which he wrote of Henrie the seuenth But as a man ouer passionate for his Antichrist and for his breaden God wold not beleeue it whose words are these Henrie the seuenth died the day of the Assumption of our Lady hauing that day receiued the body of our Lord Iesus Christ wherein were giuen him write some certaine hearbes by a Monke of Saint Dominickes order 〈◊〉 that of them the same day he died Which is a thing so wicked that of no Christian it ought to bee beleeued how much more of a religious man Thus farre Pero Mexia But the punishment executed vppon the Dominicke Friers and their Monasteries in Tuscan and Lombardie sheweth that which is sayd to bee true Raphael Volateranus lib. Geograph 5. speaking of Sixtus the fourth saith these wordes The chiefe Bishop vnderstanding it and ayding the Conspirators they came to Florence and all met together in the Church of S. Raparada at the time of the Masse and of the sacrifice Saluiatus with his followers which were secretly armed in the meane time departed the Temple and faining other businesse went to the pallace to conferre with Alferez but with intent that the slaughter begun in the Temple he might there be ready ioyntly with the Magistrate to assault the pallace So that hauing giuen a signe at the eleuation of the Host note the reuerence and respect that the Pope and his haue of their God At the lifting vp saith he of the Host Bandino passed from part to part to Iulian de Medices brother of Lorenço Antonio who required to be the first rushed by treason vpon Lorenço and a little below the throate did wound him As he at the crie turned backe his face he escaped the blow the other willing to second his blow he hastily retired to the Clearke of the Church which was neare vnto him Then the Legate of the Pope who had giuen the signe of murder at the eleuation of the Host was taken by the citizens and carried from the Church and being put in prison was handled as his dignity required In the meane time Saluiatus bishop of Pisa who by his industrie prolonged the conference with Alferez to see the end of the businesse was then taken and at a windowe of the pallace the same day hanged The Pope at this newes excommunicateth Lorenço de Medices who say we escaped by flight for laying his hands vpon the Priests of God and vpon the Legate and proclaimeth open warre against the Florentines By this historie and others such like shalt thou see ô Spaine the account estimation that the Pope his Legate and their priestly order do make of their consecrated Host which they sell vnto thee for God and thou beleeuest it See we also the account that the diuell himselfe maketh of it Speaking of Syluester 2. who much profited in Nigromancy whiles he liued with the Moore at Seuill we said that he much desired to know how long he should be Pope which thing he demāded of the diuel The diuel made him answer that he should not die vntil he should say Masse in Ierusalem But the diuel