Cincius Fregepanius who set upon the Conclave bang'd the Cardinalls unhors'd the new Pope untill the people rescued him and made Fregepane submitt 2. Then the Emperour Henry came upon him and set up one Maurice Burdine by the name of Gregory the eight against him so that he was constrayned to fly into France where he shortly dyed of a Pluresie haveing first Excommunicated the Emperour freed the Templers from the subjection to the Patriarch of Ierusalem Burdine the Emperours man could not hold the place But 23. A.D. 1119 CALIXTUS the second a Burgundian gott it 2. He continues the Excommunication against the Emperour in a Councell of Germany makes the Emperour yeeld unto him and so absolves him but abuses his Pope Gregory whom he had made by setting of him upon a Camell with his face towards the tayle and then thrusting him shauen into a Monastâ—y 3. He appointed the foure Fasts decreed it Adultery for a Bishop to forsake his Sea was much against Preists Marryages whereupon our Simon of Durham made the verses O bone calixte nunc omnis clerus odit te Quondam Presbyteri potâ—rant uxoribus uti Hoc destruxisti postquam tu Papa fuisti Ergo tuum merito nomen habent odio The Clergy the now good Calixtus hate The heretofore each one might have his Mate But since thou gotten hast the Papall throne They must keep Puncks or learn to Lig alone 24. HONORUS the second an Italian comes next A.D. 1124 but with great opposition of two others that were set up against him 2. From this man John Cremensis was sent hither into England to dash Preists Marriages But in his greatest heat of urging his Commission he was found a Bed with a Whore 3. Platina tels us that one Arnulphus Bale adds an Englishman was Martyred in Rome for Preaching against the Clergies pompe and luxury His Countryman 25. INNOCENT the second enters upon the place A.D. 1130 he was opposed by an Antipope ealled Anacletus backt by Roger King of Sicily who forced this Pope to fly into Germany and France to be righted 2. The Emperour Lotharius with an Army setled him in his seat 3. But Roger King of Sicily hath another bout with him Imprisoneth him and his Cardinalls till he had gotten of him to be pronounced King of both Scicilies which was done and then Scicily was reckoned St Peters Patrimony So easie it was then for Popes to bestow Kingdoms in which neither by Divine nor humane Law could they clayme any interest His successor a Tuscan 26. A.D. 1143 CaeLESTINUS the second put in by Conradus the Emperour sate so short a time that nothing is noted of him not much longer remained 17. LUCIUS the second a Bononian A.D. 1144 for when he went about to abrogate the Office of Patricians and with Souldiers beset the Capitoll he was so pelted with stones by the Citizens that he soone resigned his life and place to 28. EUGENIUS the third a Pisan St Barnards Scholer A.D. 1145 to whom he wrote his Books of Confideration 2. But Eugenius more considered the enlarging of his place and power and therefore would not permitt the Romanes to chuse their owne Senatours nor their Patricians to beare any sway 3. This grew to such a quarrell that the Pope was faine to leave Rome and fly into France whence after some time and matters accommodated he returned and dyed at Tyber 29. A. 1153 ANASTASIUS the fourth took his place a Romane but did nothing in it worth the noting only he gave a great Chalice to the Church of Laterane whilst William our Arch-bishop of Yorke was poysoned in the Chalice 30. A. 1154 ADRIAN the fourth an Englishman succeeds before called Nicholas Brack-speare 2. This man would not suffer the Consuls in Rome to have any power and condemned Arnold of Brixia for an Heretique in holding with them 3. He quarrelled with Frederick the Emperour for not holding Hostler like his stirrop and afterwards Excommunicates him for clayming his rights and writing his name before the Popes for which the Emperour defends himselfe by a Letter 4. Great stirres there were also between him and William of Scicily concerning Apulia wherein William had the better and at length gott to be stiled King of both Sciciles 5. When with his Cardinals he had conspired to ruine the Emperour and had sent a Counterfeit to stabb him and an Arabian to poyson him he was choackt with a fly that gott into his Throat which verified that he was wont to repeat often There is no kind of life upon earth more wretched then to be a Pope Yet this lessened not 31. A. 1159 ALEXANDER the third an Hetrurian but that he opposed his Soveraigne in a more treacherous manner 2. He was chosen indeed in a strong Factionâ— of Victor Paschalis Calixtim Innocentius all clayming the place 3. The Emperour comes to Papia for to appease the stirrs sends for Alexander who insteed of obeying Excommunicates the Emperour and his Oposites and by the French Kings favour and his owne Purse settles himselfe in Rome 4. The Emperour comes with an Army to correct his insolency but Hartman Bishop of Brixia by effectuall perswasions turnes him from the Pope against the Saracens 5. There being Victorious and returning he was surprised by the Popes Treason who had sent his exact Counterfeit to the Souldan that he might not misse in laying wait for the man 6. Being apprehended therefore with his Chaplaine as they went to Bath themselves in a River of Armenia brought before the Souldan the Picture discovered him The Souldan uses him nobly appoints his Ransom then guards him home as farre as Brixia 7. The Princes of the Empire unite to revenge the prodigious Treason the Pope betakes himselfe to Venice where Duke Sebastian protects him Otho the Emperours Sonne is sent with an Army to hemme him in and not to fight untill his Fathers comming This charge he neglecting is overthrowne and taken Prisoner 8. The good Father to preserve his Soune is forced to submit in St Marks Church in Venice He prostrates himselfe before the Pope who setting his foot on his Neck with that of the Psalmist in his mouth Super Aspidem Basiliscum Thou shalt walk upon the Serpent and Adder and the Emperour replying non tibi sed Petro the Beast goes on mihi Petro to me as well as to Poter 9. This end after much trouble had that remar kable businesse The Pope gratified the Venetians as he had reason made his conditions with the Emperour at his pleasure and so returnes to Rome 10. Henry the second our King was much vexed by this Pope for the death of Thomas Becket of Canterbury whom the Pope made St Thomas for withstanding his King Soveraigne And upon the Kings submission to the lash granted to Him and his Heyres the Title of the Kings of England Hinc autem observatum est saith Flatina ut omnes Anglici à Romano Pontifice Regni jura recognoscant
by the fall of a new house But others say this was the end of 8. IOHN the 21. a Portugall Physition A.D. 1277 Platina passes him for a vaine man and thereupon inferres Nescio quo pacto compertum est ut viri quidam admodum literati ad res agendas parum idonei videantur We see for action Learning availes not when The greatest Clearkes proves not the wisest men 2. He was a Writer notwithstanding and favourer of Schollers which was the least care of 9. NICHOLAS the third a Romane An. 1277 He inclosed a Warren of Hares for his holinesse recreation 2. Was ravennous for his kindred raised the quarrell between Peter of Aragon and Charles of France for Sycily whence grew the Massacre of the French called Sycilian vespers wherein all sorts of French upon the Toll of a Bell were cruelly Butchered 10. A.D. 1281 MARTINE the fourth a French-man that succeeded thereupon Excommunicated Peter of Aragon but he contemned it and strengthned himselfe by Paleologus 2. He kept the Concubine of his predecessor Nicholas and removed all Pictures of Bears from his pallace least the beholding of them should cause his sweet heart to bring forth a Beare His Excommunication of Peter of Aragon is continued by 11. A.D. 1285 HONORIUS the fourth a Romane who did little else but confirme the Augustine Friars and cause the white Carmelites to be called our Ladies Brethren so much was not performed by 12. A.D. 1288 NICHOLAS the fourth a Franciscan Italian who dyed some say of griefe to see both Church and State in such remedilesse Combustions After two years scolding of the Cardinalls 13. A.D. 1294 CELESTINE the fifth an Italian formerly an Anchorite was chosen He resolving to be strict in reforming the Church was guild by one that fained himselfe to be an Angell and spake through a Trunke in a wall Celestine Celestine give over thy Chayre for it is above thy ability 2. The French King perswaded him to hold it but he decreed that a Pope might quit his place as he did to turne Hermite againe But that preserved not his life from the jealousy of 14. A.D. 1294 BONIFACE the eight a Campanian that thus cheated him for he caused him to be imprisoned and made away 2. Of this Boniface it is said that he entred like a Foxe raigned like a Lyon and dyed like a Dogge 3. He threw ashes into the Arch-bishop Porchets eyes on Ash-wednesday because he was a Gibelline brought in the Iewish Jubely carryed two swords before him and shewed himselfe as well in Imperiall Robes as in Papall habilliments to expresse that he had power of both swords in that Church out of which there is no salvation 4. For his Excommunicating Phillip the Fayre of France and his cruelty against others he drew upon himselfe an infamous death by the hands of those he had formerly banished 5. John Cassiodores Epistle in Bale shewes how lamentably England suffered by him A much better Pope was little 15. BENEDICT a Lombard a Sheapheards sonne A.D. 1303 who would not acknowledge his poore mother when she came to him Lady like but caused her to put on her Shepheardesse apparell He absolved the King of France Excommunicated the murtherers of his predecessor Boniface desired to compose all brawles but was poysoned at length in a figge 16. CLEMENT the fifth a French man that succeeds An. 1305 transferred the Court to Avignion where it continued 70. years governing Rome the while by deputy Cardinalls 2. At the pompe of his Coronation much hurt was done by the fall of a Wall and the Pope lost a Carbuncle out of his Mytre valued at 6000. Florens 3. He rooted out the Templers favoured the Knights of Rhodes Excommunicated the Florentines Lucians and Venetians whose Ambassador Francis Dandalus sent to pacify him he chayned under his table to feed with the doggs 4. From the Councell held by him in Vienna we have the Clementines of the Canon Law Henry of Lutzenburg the Emperour a little after was poysoned in the host by one Bernard a Monke whom presently he forgave and wished him to shift away to save his life The Pope dyes of the fluxe after two years His Countryman 17. IOHN the 22. succeeds him A. 1316 He Sainted Thomas of Aquine and Thomas of Hereford flead a Bishop and afterwards burned him because he had offended him 2. Challenged a Supremacy over the Greeke Church but they wished the Divell to be with him as God was with them would by no means Crowne the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria who contemned it and was otherwise Crowned King of the Romanes Whereupon he deprives him but not without stout opposition Occam Marsilius and Iandunus taking the Emperours part 3. He held the soules to dye with the body but was condemned for it by the Parisians the Councell of Constance Durandus Thomas Wallis an English man and others He lived longest of any Pope and dyed richest 18. A. 1334 BENEDICT the 12. also a French man succeeds him opposes at first Lewis the Emperour but afterward falling out with the French King takes the Emperours part who notably had defended his Royalty in an assembly of the Peeres of Germany 2. He reformed some Orders or rather disorders of the Monkes bought Francis Petraches beautifull sister with a great summe of Money of her brother Gerard to make some use of her Had these Rimes made on him when he was gone Hic situs est Nero laicis mors vipera olero Devius à vero cuppa repleta mero Laicks bane Clerks viper here lyes Nero's trunke Fardle of Lyes a Butt of Wine stark drunke 19. A. 1342 CLEMENT the sixth his Country man proves more violent then his predecessor 2. To diminish the Emperours authority he creates Vicount Vicars to rule the Empire which caused the Emperour to institute such other Vicars to governe the Church 3. This and other things so netled his Clemency that upon no Termes he would be reconciled with the Emperour except he put himselfe and all his into his Holinesse disposition 4. For quietnesse sake and to prevent the shedding of Christian blood the Emperour doth it The Princes of the Empire exclaime against the Popes tyrannicall conditions The Arch-bishop of Mentz is deposed for but speaking on the Emperours behalfe The other Electors bribed set up his sonne Charles to be King of the Romanes he to settle himselfe morgaged speciall portions of the Emperiall Revenues never againe recovered whereby the weakned Empire was exposed to the Turkes invasion 6. In England also this Pope made so bold as to bestow Bishopricks and Benefices at his pleasure But our Edward the third would admit of no such intrusion 7. T is thought by his meanes the hated Emperour was poysoned and his Holinesse breathed his last Bale by an Impostume after he had tyrannized so long and cozoned the World by his yeare of Inbilee and blasphemous Indulgences His Countryman 20. An. 1352 INNOCENT the sixth a Lawyer by pinching and
For falling off from the Emperour to France Rome came to be sacked by the Duke of Burbon and the Pope himselfe with his Cardinalls to be taken Prisoners 4. For crossing our King Henry the eight and deluding him in the Divorce from his brothers wife Queene Katharine he lost his Supremacy here in England and for his lewd life otherwise made his See infamous Roma vale vidi satis est vidisse revertar Cum leuo aut Meretrix Scurra Cinaedus ero Vile Rome adiew I did thee view but hence no more will see Till Pimpe or Punke or Iade or Spade I doe resolve to be 4. Palengenius that lived in his time sets out the corruptions of these daies in his Capricorne some say he died of the lowsy disease others by the poysonous smell of a Torch This Pope might passe for a Clement and mercifull man indeed in regard of his successor a Romane 5. PAUL the third A. 1534 who prostituted his sister Julia Farnesia to Alexander the sixth that he might be made Cardinall committed incest with his own daughter Constantia and poysoned her husband Bosius Sforfia to enjoy her the more freely so in a jealous humor he used his own sister upon suspition she played false with him but for pressing on his Neice Laura Farnesia in the like matter Nicholas Quercen her husband taking him in the Act gave him a marke that he carried with him to his grave 2. Being Legate at Ancona under Pope Iulius the second he cozened a Lady under pretence of marriage to yeeld to his Lust who upon discovery of the delusion fell almost distracted yet brought him that Peter Aloysius afterward Duke of Placenâ—ia where he was slaine for his horrible villanies especially that upon Cosmus Cherea not to be named 3. To this Incest and maintaining 45000. Courtezans his Necromancy comes as a Complement He conferred with Gauricus Servita and other of the damned Crew who were alwaies at his Elbow 4. Fâ—om this Popes piety we had the Councell of Trent and Order of the Jesuits and King Henry the eight Excommunicated and our England given Primo occupaturo some will say a worse there could not be But let them consider his successor and Countryman and Legate in the Councell of Trent 6. A.D. 1550 IULIUS the third Who as soone as he was chosen not without great stirres gave his Cardinalls hat to a Sodomiticall boy whom he had abused called Innocentius to the repining Cardinalls who asked a reason of it What reason had you saies he to chuse me Pope Fortune favours whom she pleaseth 2. Iohn Casa Arch-bishop of Benevent Deane of the Apostolicall Chamber in this mans time Printed a Book at Venice in defence of Sodomy By whom Francis Spira was seduced to revolt and dyed desperately 3. This Pope was the man that would have his Porke forbidden by his Physitian Al despetto de dio in despight of God and maintained that he had more cause to be angry for the keeping back of his cold Peacock Pye then God had to cast Adam out of Paradice for eating of an Apple 4. From the same man we had the Reconciliation and blessing of the Mother Church so submissively taken from the hands of Cardinall Poole in Queen Maries daies that cost the lives of so many Innocents by various Executions 5. Whereupon one Vvalterius describes the Sea of Rome under him in this Tetrastichon Roma quid est quod te docuit praeposterus ordo Quid docuit jungas versa elementa seies Roma Amor est Amor est qualis praeposterus unde haec Roma Mares noli dicere plura scio What 's Rome even that preposterousnesse doth show What 's that spel't backward then thou soon maist know Backward 't is Amor love what love nay hold It is a male loue odious to be told And Beza plaies upon three evacuating Basons which this Pope was wont to have at hand in his beastly surquedry I nunc Pontifices Germania dira negato Omnia Clausa suo jura tenere sinu And now will cursed Germany deny The Pope hath * Alluding to the word that signifies Laws and Broth. Iura that he thus let fly No sure this Pope let it fly at both ends and his life went after Another of the Tridentine Legats 7 MARCELLUS the second an Hetruscan A.D. 1555 was quickly foysted into the place The rather because he was sickly and in likely-hood could not keep it long 2. He had been Schoole Master to Peter Aloysius esteemed the Lutherane worse then Turks perswadeed Charles the fifth and Ferdinand rather to turne their forces against them then the Mahometanes 3. Paulus Vergerius must not stay in the Councell of Trent but why forsooth He believed not the Legend of St George and S. Christopher whom Paul the third before had left out of the Breviary The Bishop of Claudia Fossa Iames Nanclant must be likewise discharged for holding the Scripture to be above Traditions and William of Venice for saying the Councell was above the Pope But the short time he Poped it abridged his farther proceedings which being but 23. daies a Neopolitâ—ne 8. PAUL the fouth continues the Line A.D. 1555 who wrote a book for reforming the Church to Paul the third when he was Cardinall wherein he taxed most of the same abuses that Luther did but the case was altered when he came to have power in his own hand 2. He was a great Patron of the Jesuits and Inquisition which had made away by Vergerius reckoning in his time 150000. persons under pretext of Religion England had her share by Queen Maries Clergy It was this Popes Legate Cardinall Caraffa that gave this blessing to the devout Parisians Quandoquidem Populus decipivult decipiatur In as much as this people will be deceived let them be deceived He was so hated for his cruelty that immediatly upon his death the people burnt the Prison or rather slaughter-house of the Inquisition beheaded the Popes Statua and threw it into Tyber and razed all the Armes of the Caraffa's they could fall upon One of the house of the Medices by the Spanish faction is after foure months thrust into his place 9. A.D. 1560 PIUS the fourth who abrogates the Acts of his predecessors and persecutes his kindred makes Charles Borromeus Cardinall who after proved a Saint 2. The Nationall Councell the King of France held at Poyters he handsomely defeats by setting on foot again the Councell of Trent 3. Thither he cites the Protestant Germanes and French Hugonotes with Calvin among the rest by the Bishop of Cumane But their answer was that the Pope had no Authority to call Councells much lesse to carry things at his pleasure A free Councell they were willing for where Gods Word might take place and not be overswayed with politique Projects 4. Queen ELIZABETH took order that none of his Legats should set footing here in England which hath sped the better for it ever since 5. She was designed to be
Arch-Bishopricks and Bishopricks The Arch-Bishops were of London Yorke and Gloster the Bishops of other places Idoll Temples were destroyed Westminster built in the Isle of Thorny the place where it now stands being then so called 4. Priviledges and meanes were granted for the honouring such sacred places 5. The King dies without Issue wherefore to continue the line of Government wee are forced to take in the Emperour 2. An. C. 208 SEVERUS for he comes hither in Person to appease the tumults amongst the headlesse and heedlesse multitude orders that the Country should have no more Kings of her own 2. Built a Wall between England and Scotland of 112 miles in length to stop the suddaine incursions of the Scots and Picts at least repaired that wall which Adrian had erected before 3. He dyes here in Yorke and left his sonne the Monster 3. BASSIANUS to succeed him An. C. 213 of whose killing his brother Geta and other villanies mention is made before in his life Of him 4. An. C. 219 CARAUSIUS an obscure Britaine purchaseth the Government of the shattered State Eutropius wherein when he presumed to King it 5. An. C. 226 ALECTUS is sent from Rome by the Senate to out him which he quickly did And was as soon dealt with in the like kind by 6. ASCLEPIODOTUS Duke of Cornewall An. C. 232 This man resolutely bestirres himselfe for the freedome of his Country disgarrisons the Romane holds besieges London carries it kills the Romane Governour thereof Livius and throwes him into a Rivellet thence called Wall-brook But differences falling out between him and Coill Earle of Colchester it grew to a set Battle wherein Asclepiodotus was slaine and 7. COILL takes his place An. C. 2623 Constantius Clhorus is sent by the Romane Senate to subdue the tumultuous but matters were so politiquely contrived between them that in steed of outing Coill Clhorus takes his faire and peerclesse Daughter Helena to wife and with her the Kingdome after her Father He is highly commended for his morall virtues valour moderation and in those sad times for favouring the Christians After an excellent exhortation on his death-bed to those that were about him he quietly breathed his last and lyes buried at Yorke leaving 8. An. C. 310 CONSTANTINE the Heire and Augmenter of his worth whom he had by the British Helen As Lucius had the honour before to be Registred for the first Christian King so this Great Constantine is famous to all ages for the first Christian Emperour of whom more is said in his life amongst the Emperours After him expired the Romane vassalage which had endured 483 years by the intrusion of 9. An. C. 329 OCTAVIUS Duke of Cornewall Against him Constantine sends Traherne his Vnkle by the Mothers side but he was quickly encounterd by Octavius that had great means and friends and overthrowne neere Winchester but Traherne recruting his forces at an other Battle in the North had the better of Octavius who thereupon fled into Norway 2. Thence understanding that Traherne was slaine by an Earle that was his friend he returnes againe to his Estate and governs peaceably 3. And for the strengthning of his Title to make it good to posterity he sends for from Rome 10. An. C. 383 MAXIMIANUS or Maximus a kinsman of the Great Constantines For this mans harsh dealing with the Ghristians he is set forth by most writers as a Tyrant 2. Quarrells fell out between him and Conan Meridoc Duke of Cornewall and some conflicts with various successe but they agreed at last Maximianus bestowing Armorica which he had conquered upon Conan who called it Little Britaine and having made away the ancient Inhabitants sent into Cornewall for Wives to people it with Brittish blood 11000 Virgins were shipped thither by Diothen then Duke whereof Vrsnla his faire daughter was one but they were barbarously slaine in the passage by Guanus Captain of the Hunnes and Melga King of Ficts who afterward were forced into Ireland by Gracian a Leader sent from our Maximinian 3. Who puffed up with wealth and successe Rebelled against his Master Gratian the Emperour whom he slew in France and proclaimed himselfe Emperour but quickly lost that dignity with his life by Theodosius the great In Orat. funeb de exitu Theodofii neere Aquilea concerning whom St Ambrose hath this passage Maximus occisus est nunc in inferno docenâ— exemplo miserabili quam durum sit Arma suis Principibus irrogare Maximus is slaine and now in Hell by his miserable example teacheth what a hard matter it is for Subjects to take up Armes against their Princes 11. A.Ch. 391 GRACIAN then his Generall makes bold to supply the vacant place he was a Britaine by birth and education yet so Tyrannized over his Countrymen that in a short space he was slaine amongst them 2. Whereupon Guanus and Melga finding them destitute of a Leader come upon them out of Ireland The Scots and Picts breake in upon them from the North and Civill dissentions plague them as much in the middest so that nothing but Famine Bloud and desolation was before their eyes 3. In this extremity they repayre to Aetius the Romane Leiftenant in Gallia with this pittyfull complaint The Barbarous people drive us to the Sea and the Sea driveth us back unto them againe Hereof arise two kinds of death for either we are slaine or drowned and against such evils have we no remedy or help at all Therefore in respect of your Clemency succour your owne we most instantly desire you 4. But finding cold comfort either for that the Romane regarded them not or had his hands full otherwise they dispatch Embassadours to Aldroenus then King of little Britaine who consented to ayd them if they would accept his brother to be their King 5. Necessity enforceth them to imbrace the Condition and so 12. CONSTANTINE is made their King A.Ch. 443 He Lands with Forces at Totnesse slayes Guanus the Hunnish King in the Feild and defeateth the rest of the oppressours but soone after was treacherously slaine himselfe by a perfidious Pict 2. He left three sonnes surviving Constantius Aurclius Ambrose and Vter Pendragon Constantius that for his blockishnesse was Cloystered in a Monastery was thence taken to Raigne after him but was wholy guided as a Ward by Vortiger Duke of Cornewall who caused him to be made away that he might enjoy the Place and appeares the foreman of the next and last Classis or Distance in the Brittish Dynasty 3. WIth this Distance falleth in 1. The great Question concerning the first Planter of Christianity in Britany Whether it were 1. St James the sonne of Zebedee or 2 Simon Zelotes or 3 St Peter or 4 St Paul or 5 Joseph of Aramathea or 6 Aristobulus or 7 Timothy or all these or any other at diverse times and on diverse occasions may be said to have put their hand to the worke 2 The damnable Heresie of Pelagius first hence taking his rise with
England Denmarke Norway some adde also part of Sweden together with Scotland were wholy subject unto him 3. His Iealousies of Ironsides Children moved him to send his sonnes Edward and Edmund to Swanus King of Denmarke to be dispatched but he abhorring such Villâ—ny transfer'd them to the King of Hungary where Edmund dying Edward Married Agatha the Emperour Henry the fourths Daughter by whom he had Edgar Etheling the surviving Heire of the Crowne of England which he could never recover 4. To strengthen his Title what he might he takes Emma to wife King Etheldreds Widdow M. Lambard makes good Lawes extant in the Saxon tongue and Latine gave one hundred Talents of Silver and one of Gold for St Augustince Arme which he bestowed on Coventry as a memoriall of his Zeale though not according to knowledge 5. He had Issue by Emma his second Wife the faire Gunhilda and Hardy-Canutus Gunhilda was Married to the Emperour Henry the third where falling into suspition of Incontinency she was vindicated by her English Page overthrowing in her quarrell a great Gyant Hardicanutus was designed to succeed by his Father here in England but was put by in his absence by his Brother 2. A.C. 1038 HAROLD called Harefoot by reason of his swiftnesse Earle Goodwin withstands his entrance but by secret prevailing meanes was soone made his friend 2. A Letter is forged in Queene Emma's name to bring over her sonnes Edward and Alfred which she had by Ethelred to claim their Right to the Crowne Alfred comes and by Earle Goodwin is made away with all those that came with him at Gilford 3. Emma is banished but courteously entertained by Baldwin Earle of Flanders Harold thus secured as he thought from Competitors lives loosly dyes speedily and without Issue leaves the Kingdom to 3. A.C. 1041 HARDICANUTUS who made it his first worke to disintombe his Predecessors Corps and threw it into Thamisis but some Fishermen more courteous recovered it and buryed it againe in St Clements neare Temple-Barre 2. His recalling his Mother Emma and half Brother Edward and entertaining them respectively deserves commendations As also the prosecuting Earle Goodwin and the Bishop of Worcester for Prince Alfreds death but the Earle quitted himselfe by his Oath and a rich Present and the Bishops questioning is said to be for the Murther of the Kings Taxe-Collectors in Worcester by the inraged Citizens for which their City was afterwards consumed with fire 3. His Epicurismo left an ill Custome to all posterity Foure times a day his Table must be covered to invite men to Intemperancy Through which at a Marriage he is thought to have Choaked himselfe at Lambeth most rejoycing to be rid of him in memory whereof Hock-tide a Feast of scorning was a long time continued after In this third Heire expired the Danish Line and the Saxon revived againe in 4. EDWARD the sonne of Ethelred Emma A.C. 1043 commonly called the Confessour 1. To gaine the more love of his Subjects at his first entrance he remitted the Taxe of Danegilts so greivous to the Commonds collected the Lawes of his predecessors into a body for the administrationof Iustice which some say are the ground of our Common-Law though the Pleading be altered since the Norman Conquest 2. He was threatned by the Dane See M. Lambards Archnom and vexed by Griffith the Welch Prince who was quelled by Harold especially who was imployed against them Betweene him and the potent Earle Goodwin were such debates that twice came to the hazard of dangerous Battles if wise mediation of the Nobles had not prevented them the death of which Earle is reported to be his Choaking with a bitt of Bread upon an imprecation laid on himselfe that that might be his last if he had a hand in the death of the Kings Brother Prince Alfred though some say he died of the deadpalsie 3. Grafton In this man's time Coventry purchased its Freedome from Earle Leofrie by the Riding of his Countesse Godina naked through it but such order was taken by the Townesmen that shutting up all Doores and Windowes none beheld it 4. His unnaturall dealing with his good Mother Emma and vertuous faire Wife Editha Earle Goodwins Daughter cannot be excused For upon a poore surmise of Incontinency with Alwin Bishop of Winchester his Mother in his presence was put to the Ordalium to passe Blindfolded between nine glowing Coulters which she did untouched and his spotlesse Queene Editha denied Marriageright perchance for hatred to her Father and with one Waiting-maid to live disrespected in a Nunnery 5. Such actions so opposite to Gods word should Saint no man The first curing the Kings Evill is referred to him and thence to have continued to his Successors More Laudable was his respect to Edgar Etheling Grandchild to to Ironside by his sonne Edward the Out-law that died in banishment whom he intended for his successour and he had the best right to it but he being young and wanting meanes and friends to support him 5. A.C. 1066 HAROLD sonne of Earle Goodwin makes bold to take the place a man of excellent parts and approved valour as the Welch and others which he subdued in his Predecessors time found to their cost 2. He droven by Tempest into Normandy was affianced to young Adeliza Duke William's Daughter with whom he Covenanted upon Oath to make him successour to Edward in the Kingdome of England 2. But this contract he held as a nicity or complement and constrained Oathes no way to bind wherein he soothed himselfe but God is not mocked and usurpations thrive not long 3. Three Enemies at one time assault him Tosto his owne Brother Harold Harefager or Fairelocks of Norway and William Duke of Normandy The two former he manfully quelled but fell under the hand of William in that famous Battle of Hastings in Sussex the setter up of the next Dynasty 2. IN those times whiles Princes sought the ruines one of another Popes grew up to dispose of them and their Kingdoms and those that protested against such deformities and enormities could not be heard INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Canutus had the largest Dominious of any that ever Ruled in this Kindome 2. St Augustines Arme were worth so much as he gave for it 3. Edward the sonne of Etheldred deserved the Title of Confessour 4. Our Common-Law have its grounds from his Collections 5. Ordalium by hott Coulters be fit to purge suspition of Incontinency 6. Stopping the rights of Marriages without consent for a time of both Parties be not directly against Gods word 7. Harold were bound to keep his Oath to William of Normandy for the Crowne of England in prejudice to Edgar Etheling the apparent right Heire Of the Normans DYNASTY IV. THe Fourth Dynasty is of the Normans to the Plantagenets and hath in it 1. A.C. 1067 WILLIAM the Conquerour the seaventh Duke of Normandy the sonne of Robert begotten on Arlot a poore Skinners daughter whom he affected for her
Excommunicated for it but that was hindred by some by respects much moving there was for Reformation by the Legats of France and Germany at least for the Communion in both kinds hopes thereof were given but the Councell was broken off and nothing performed 6. Venery and Luxury as 't was thought by this Popes best friends shortned his daies More pious his successor was esteemedâ— 10. An. 1566 PIUS the fifth a Lombard especially for Curbing the Whoores about Rome whom he commanded to be marryed or whipt and if they died in that Course to be buried in a Dunghill 2. He shewed himselfe resolute also against the Turke and was of confederacy with the Spanyard and other Christian States in the Victory at Lepanto 3. But otherwise amongst Christian Princes that were not wholy at his beck played the Turke himselfe Had a hand in the Death of Prince Charles of Spaine in the making away of our King James his Father in most of the Treasons against Queene Elizabeth whom he solemnely Excommunicated by a Bull which one Felton set up upon the Bishop of Londons Gate for which he was Executed This Bull our Bishop Jewell so bayted that his Piety dar'd not to reply His instruction was to Caesar by his Legat Commendinus Nec fidem aut Sacramentum infideli esse servandum Neither Faith nor Oaths is to be kept with Infidells an excellent position to convert Infidells and credit Christian Religion The Bononian 11. GREGORY the 13th followes A. 1572 by whose procurement after the Queene of Navarre had bin poysoned by a payre of Gloves was that Butcherly Massacre in Paris which was celebrated at Rome with publique Triumphs 2. He interposeth for the disposing of the Kingdom of Portugall voyd by the Death of Sebastian in Africk But Philip of Spaine laying hold of it he congratulates the Conquerours 3. He alters the Kalender but could not effect with Caesar and divers other Princes his new stile which anticipates 10 dayes in the old accompt should be followed which is done notwithstanding amongst some States for politique respects 4. The Archbishop of Cullayne Gilbert Truchchesius is outed of his Archbishoprick by his Excommunication because he Married and the doting Governour of Malia sang a Nunc dimittis to him adding postquam oculi mei viderunt salutare tuum For mine eyes have seen thy salvation which his Holinesse took in very good part as belonging to him Next comes blustering in from Marca Ancona 12. SIXTUS the fifth An. 1583 who first falls upon Henry the third of France for killing the Guises and not plaguing the Protestants as he would have him to have done then he Excommunicates him and when he was Butchered by a desperate Monke James Clement with a poysoned knife his Holinesse praiseth the fact in a set Panegerick amidst his Cardinals comparing it with the works of Creation and Incarnation 2. He blesieth the Banner of Spaine against England in the famous expedition of 88 but to no great purpose Afterwards commends Queene Elizabeth for a very excellent Governesse 3. Quarrells with Spaine for Naples and carryed such a heavy hand over the Iesuits that he wiped them of a great masse of money so that they forged that the Devill carryed him away in the habit of a Coachman two yeares before he should have done it by Compact But the Pope had bestowed those two yeares of his own age to make a Youth otherwise under age ripe for the Gallowes Whereupon Bellarmine being questioned what he thought of this Popes ending sagely gave his censure Quantum sapio quantum capâ—o quantum intelligo Dominus noster Papa descendit ad infernum and yet to this Pope he dedicates his Controversies Lesse adoe there was with the Gennoway that ascended the Chayre 13. A.D. 1590 VREANE the seaventh who kept it but a fortnight and then left it to 14. An. 1590 GREGORY the 14th of Millaine one of the Tridentine Grandees as his predecessors were but there he held a shrewd position that Bishops by Gods Law are tyed to refidency 2 He held also a Iubilee and exhausted the Treasury of the Church in the Warres of France which Sixtus before had sealed by an Oath to be imployed for the recovery of the Holy land 3. He Curses Henry of Navarre as a relapsed Heretique but the Parliament of France laught at his Bulls and adjudged them to the fire by the hand of the Hangman 4. The King wished the Prelates to cramme the Papacy with no more Annales from France but to create a Patriarch of their own 5. The Pope sends hiâ— Nephew Francis Generall to the French Warres but could nor resist the Fever and Stone at home which ended him before he could end one yeare in his Papacy a Bononian 15. INNOCENT the ninth could not hold in so long An. 1591 Yet for the two moneths he was in he expressed an hatred against the King of Navarre and a good liking of the Jesuits 2. It may be observed here to shew the frailty of humane Condition and poore assurance of great places that one yeare foure moneths and three dayes made an End of foure Popes The Florentine 16. CLEMENT the eight kept the place longer A. 1592 to do more mischeife He begins with Henry of Navarre and presses him so close that at the last he made him to turne Papist before he could be quiett in his Kingdome 2. Neither then was for first a woman then Botrerius his own Cup-bearer through the instigation of the Iesuits afterward John Chastell a student of theirs attempted his death Which Ravilliac their Villaine at last effected and all for sooth because he had entred upon the Kingdome being absolved only by the Bishop of Biberico and not by the Popes Clemency 3. To get a playster therefore for this Sore Perron the Apostata must be sent Embassadour to Rome where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Pope gives absolution reciting the 11 Psalme and at every verse gently striking with his rodd the prostrated suppliants which he should have lashed more roundly 4. As he did indeed Caesar Estensis whom he Excommunicated and got from him the Dukedome of Ferrara and added it to St Peters Patrimony which was more then the poore Fisherman's owne Father could ever get him 5. He dispensed with Cardinall Albert of Austria to marry Isabella Infanta of Spaine but afforded not the title of King to the great Duke of Moseovia desiring it of him because he inclined too much to the Greeke Church 6. The Alexandrians some say submitted unto him He dispensed with Henry of France to put away Queene Margaret and marry with Maria de Medices laboured what he could that King Iames should not succeed Queene Elizabeth here in England was much troubled with the Gowte but eased as he saith when Arch-duke Maximilian kissed his gowty Golls Hiâ— Countryman 16. LEO the eleventh that took his place A.D. 1635 came in with this Motto over his Arch-triumphall Pageant Diguus est Leo in virtute Agni accipere
opposing Pope Innocent the third in Stephen Langtons preferment to the See of Caterbury sleighting the Monks and vexing them 3. Their Combinations forced him after the Interdicting of the Realme for six years three moneths and sixteene dayes to render his Crowne to Pandulphus the Popes Legate and take it againe in Fee-Farme at the Rent of a Thousand Markes yearely which exasperated his Nobles against him howsoever it warped the Pope and Clergy to be for him 4. His Bickering abroad with the French and at home with his Barons made his Raigne very Tragicall which ended at Swansted Abby by Simon the Monkes Poyson as some say and gave way to his sonne 4. A.C. 1216 HENRY the third who Crowned between nine or tenne yeares Old 1. Cleared this Realme of the French who had Invaded it by the Popes interdiction by William Martiall Earle of Pembroke his Protector 2. Hubert De Burgo Earle of Kent did him much good service for which he had small recompence 3. His immoderate and exasperating favours cast on Strangers drew on the Barons Warres in which an Insanum Parliamentum held at Oxford appointed twelve Peeres in prejudice of his Regality The Earles of Leicester and Glocester are the greatest sticklers in it who took Prisoners the King with his brother Richard King of the Romanes and his sonne Prince Edward in the Battle of Lewes in Sussex 4. He confirmes Magna Charta The Earles fall at deadly fend between themselves Prince Edward tels the King of it and joyning with Glocester Rights himselfe by the Ruine of Leicester in the Battle of Eversham in Worcestershire 5. London is threatned to be Burnt by the King for taking the Barons part 6. Glocesters service failing of expected Favours repines to no purpose and undertakes to goe to the Holy Land but shrinking that enterprise is performed by Prince Edward and his Heroick Princesse Elianor who suck'd out there the poyson of an invenomed wound given him with the hazard of her owne life whereby he recovered He did there great service untill he was called back to succeed his Father that dyed after fifty six yeares Raigne by the Title of 5. EDWARD the first commonly called Longshanks A.C. 1273 1. He brought the Welch with their Valiant Prince Lewillin under the English Subjection 2. Conquered Scotland being at Variance who should be King brought thence the Marble Chayre in which the Scottish Kings were wont to be Crowned spoken of before 3. Hesleighted the Popes Inhibition to forbeare Scotland and in the Parliament of Lincolne under the subscription of the Peeres utterly renounced Pope Boniface his Supreame Authority 4. He banished the Jewes for their Exactions and Censured the Judges and Officers for their Corruptions 5. Vpon his Death-bed charged his sonne to continue the Banishment of Pearce of Goveston and to convey his Heart to be buried in the Holy Land 6. Of his sixteene Children which he had by two Wives Elianour of Spaine and Margaret of France 6. A.C. 1307 EDWARD the second surnamed Carnarvan the first English hereditary Prince of Wales succeeds him 2. He against his Oath calls Gaveston twice out of Banishment permits him to convey beyond the Seas his Iewels with a Table and Tressels all of Beaten Gold 3. In place of Gaveston beheaded by the Nobles he takes the Spencers Father and sonne to be his Favourites worse if it might be then Gaveston 4. At Estreveline and twice afterwards he received three notable overthrowes by the Scotts to the losse of all his Interest there and the Devastation of the Northerne parts of his Kingdome 5. Vpon these preposterous events Iohn Poydrus an Exeter man would needs prove the King a Changling and said himselfe was Long-shanks sonne But his claime was quickly strangled with an Halter 6. To right these wrongs the Barons by a Parliament get the Spencers banished The King recalls them the Barons take Armes receive a great overthrow and two and twenty of them are Behoaded The Spencers the more insult 7. The Queene flyes with the Prince into France is deserted by her bribed Brother the French King and commanded to returne by the Pope finds favour with Robert of Artois Earle of Henalt and Sr Iohn his brother returnes by their help into England is assisted by the Barons takes the King and the Spencers at Bristow The Londoners behead Walter Stapleton Bishop of Exeter for withstanding the Queenes proceedings The Spencers are executed the King is Deposed in Parliament sent to Killingworth as Prisoner and thence to Barkly Castle where he was barbarously Spitted to Death leaving his sonne 7. A.C. 1327 EDWARD the third otherwise calied Edward of Windsor to governe better 1. He surprised Mortimer the Minion of his mother and Executed him at Tyburne who had by his pernicious plotting caused King Edward the second to be made away by an Amphibologie Edvardum occidere nolite timere bonum est To shed King Edwards blood Refuse to feare I hold it good And the Scottish Ragman to be redelivered in the Non-age of this King whereby the English laid claime to Scotland together with their Black Crosse so that the People cried out Vae pueris terrae saepissime sunt ubi guerrae Woe to the Land where Rulers age Is not mature to stop mens rage 2. Notwithstanding the King repaired this afterward by the overthrow of the Scotts at Hallidowne Hill which wiped off their contumelious Rime made upon their Victorie over the English in his Fathers dayes being this Long Beards heartlesse Painted Hoods witlesse Gray Coates gracelesse Make England thriftlesse And also in taking their King David the valiant Bruces sonne Prisoner at Nevils Crosse in his absence in France by the Queene and placing in Edward Balioll to be King 3. Against the French by himselfe and this Valiant sonne Edward the Black Prince He obtained eminent Victories at Cressay and Poycters In the last of which their King John was taken and brought into England 4. He Founded the Order of the Garter first quartered his Armes with France In his old age was much abused by a Strumpet Alice Pears 5. After he had seene the death of his Victorious sonne Edward the Black Prince he died peaceably at Sheene in Surry leaving to succeed him his Grandchild the Black Princes sonne 8. RICHARD the second 1. A.C. 1378 He misled by his Favorite Michael De La Poole and other Syeophants incurres the hatred of his People Iohn Wall Priest Watt Tylor lack Sraw and Jack Shepherd raise a Rebellion against him which happily was quieted by the Maior of London's William Walworths mortall blow given Watt Tylor 2. Thirteene Commissioners were appointed to see matters reformed but it came to nothing 3. An Invasion of French with twelve hundred Ships under Sayle against England by Gods providence were utterly scattered Iohn of Gaunt his Vncle Warreth successively in Spaine and himselfe in Scotland 4. He continues his hatred against his Nobles executes diverse of them Banisheth his Cosen Henry of
Hence it is observed that all Kings of England must acknowledge the Pope for their Land-Lord In this proud Popes time the poore Waldenses stood up for the truth and increased amongst all persecutions To this Pope Nicholas Maniacutius wrote mad verses extant in Onuphrius where he concludes Scimus Alexandrum per soecula commemorandum As long 's there is a Goose or Gander We must remember Alexander He kept the place 21 yeares and more 32. LUCIUS the third his Countryman sooner quirted it An. 1181 1. At his Election by the Cardinals the Romanes were so much exasperated that they abused all his Partizans setting them upon Asses with their faces backwards and disgraceing them with the like Contumelies for offering to abolish their Consuls 2. The Pope gets to Verona and condemnes their doings exhorts the Christians to resist Sultan Saladine in the East but to no purpose somewhat he did for Luca where he was borne gives over to 33. VRBANE the third a Millenois A.D. 1185 He animates the Christians against Victorious Saladine and would have Excommunicated the Emperour Crantzius because he honoured not his Holinesse in all his projects whence some termed him Turbanus but he was prevented by death As also was 34. A.D. 1187 GREGORY the eight an Apulian his Successour who was very earnest the same way to set the Christians upon the Saracens that the Popes might rule all in their absence 2. Endeavouring to agree the Pisans and Genuans he was poysoned as t is thought amongst them 35. A.D. 1188 CLEMENT the third a Romane that Succeeded him prevailed more in setting forth the expedition against the Saracens 2. For upon his instigation Frederick the Emperour Philip of France and our Richard Cordelion with other Worthies undertook the businesse but performed little 3. Vpon the death of William of Scicily this Pope puts in to make that Country Tributary to Rome but the Scicilians found an Heyre Tancred Williams base Sonne to hold it 4. He Excommunicated the Danes for maintaining the Marriage of their Clergy but composed the dissention about superiority between the Citizens of Rome and the Clergy by granting the Senators and Patricians their right Which controversie had continued from Innocent the second to this Clement the third fifty yeares together 36. A.D. 1191 CELESTINE the third a Romane that succeeds being an old man yet is for this holy Warre as his Predecessors had bin for having a sting at Tancred of Sicily he gets Constance King Rogers lawfull Daughter out of a Nunnery and Marries her to the Emperour Henry the sixth with condition that he should out Tancred and admitt the Pope a sharer in the conquered Kingdome 2. When Henry came with his Empresse Constance to be Crowned by him in Rome he did it not with his hands but feet setting it on and spurning it off againe with this saying per me Reges regnant I have power to make and unmake Emperours 3. He sets all Princes almost together by the Eares that Rome might gain by making them friends Whereupon Vspergensis cries out rejoyce ô Mother Rome because all rivers of Treasures flow into thy Ocean c. Hellish was this Celestine but 37. INNOCENT the third a Campanian that follows A.D. 1198 more contraried his name 2. He held the great Councell of Laterane under pretence of recovering Jerusalem but it was for deposing the Emperour for witholding as it was pretended some Church-rights At which time Anricular Confession was established and the Cup taken from the Layty in the Communion 3. It was this Popet resolution against Philip the Emperour only because he was chosen without his liking Either I will Vn-crowne him or he shall Vn-throne me Whereupon he raysed the Otho 's against him who at length slew him And yet this Champian could not so please the Pope but upon clayme of the Imperiall rights he must needs be Excommunicated 4. He bore a heavy hand over our King Iohn deposed him interdicts the Kingdome for six years together upon his restoring by his Legate Pandulph tynes it at the yearely rent of 1000 Marks to be held of the Pope in Fee-farme 5. He was terrible against Preists Marriages whereupon we have these Verses by an Oxford man Prisciani regula penitus cassatur Sacerdos per Hic Haec olim declinatur Nune per Hic solum articulatur Cùm per nostrum Praesulem Haec amoveatur Old Priscians rule hence forth must hold no more 'T was Hic Haec Sacerdos heretofore But now poore Hic must lye alone perforce For his deare Haec our Prelate doth diverce And an 100 were burnt in one day in Alsatia for holding the free use of meates and Matrimony Almericus Bones were burnt after his death because living he had spoken against Images in Churches This man must have all differences between Princes devolved to his Decision After him 38. A. 1216 HONORIUS the third a Romane continues to be a Stickler for the holy Land 2. He Crownes Frederick the Nunne Constanc's Sonne against Otho the 4th and notwithstanding for clayming his rights afterwards Excommunicates him 3. Confirmes the Orders of Dominick and Francis and sets them against the Waldenses grounded upon certaine Dreames which Innocent his Predecessor had fore-boading these mens service in that behalfe 4. He caused 400 Scotts to be hanged and their Children Gelded for burning their Bishop who had Excommunicated them in his owne Kitching and exacted by Otho his Legate of every Cathedral amongst us Two Prebends to help to pay scores of Mother Laterane which gave occasion to this Rime O Pater Honori multorum nate dolori Est tibi decors vivere vade mori O Father Honori borne for a sad story To live is it glory Death is to good for ye So he died and left a worse in his place 39. A. 1227 GREGORY the ninth a Campanian This man thrice Excommunicated Frederick the Emperour whom he had sent to recover the Holy Land that he at the more case might get Apulia and Lombardy from him in his absence 2. With much adoe and at a deare rate the Emperour gets his absolution but his Holinesse raiseth new stirres against him that so exasperate him that Satynicall verses as it were of defyance past between them Many of the Clergy suffered in the broyles amongst which the Popes brother was hanged for his Treasons 3. Dominick Francis and Anthony of Padua are Canonized a deadly feud fell between the Papaline Guelphes and Imperiall Gibelines which in a manner to this day continues 4. To affront the opinion that the Pope was Antichrist strongly urged by the Waldenses and the Emperours Preachers out of the Revelation of S. Iohn Cyrill a Grecian the third president of the White Fryars or Carmelites obtrudes certain tables of silver written as he said by Gods own finger and delivered him to publish which shew an other gats progresse of the Church then the Apocalips foretell and are illustrated by the Comments of Abbat Ioachim Gulielmus Cisterciencis