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A60247	The history of the original and progress of ecclesiastical revenues wherein is handled according to the laws, both ancient and modern, whatsoever concerns matters beneficial, the regale, investitures, nominations, and other rights attributed to princes / written in French by a learned priest, and now done into English.; Histoire de l'origine & du progrés des revenues ecclésiastiques. English	Simon, Richard, 1638-1712.	1685 (1685)	Wing S3802; ESTC R19448	108,906	286

Right which the Kings of Spain injoy in Sicily and which i● Commonly called the Monarchy of Sicily Monarchy of Sicily because it is the greates Spiritual Right that Princes ever took to themselves It even suprasses that which Henry VIII Of England boldly took when he separated from the Church of Rome The King of Spain in Quality of King of Sicily pretends to be Legate à latere and born Legat of th●● Holy See so that he and his Vice-roys in his absence have the same power over the Sicilians as to the Spiritual that a Legate à latere could have And therefore they who execute that Jurisdiction in Sicily for the King of Spain have power to absolve punish and excommunicate all sorts of Persons whether Laicks or Ecclesiasticks Monks Priests Abbors Bishops and even Cardinals themselves that reside in the Kingdom They acknowledge not the Popes Authority being Soveraign Monarchs as to the Spiritual They confess that the Pope hath heretofore given them that Priviledge but at the same time they pretend that it is not in his Power to recal it And so they acknowledge not the Pope for head to whose Tribunal no Appeal can be made because their King has no Superiour as to the Spiritual Moreover that Right of Superiority is not considered as delegated but as proper and the King of Sicily or they who hold that Jurisdiction in his place and who are Lay-men take the Title of Beatissimo Santissimo padre attributing to themselves in effect in respect of Sicily what the Pope takes to himself in regard of the whole Church and they Preside in Provincial Councils It was a matter of astonishment that in our Age Queen Elizabeth took the Title of Head of the Church of England But seeing in the Kingdom of Sicily the Female Succeeds as well as in England a Princess may take the Title of Head of the Church of Sicily and of Beatissimo Santissimo Padre Nay it hath happened so already in the time of Jean of Arragon and Castile the Mother of Charles V. the Sicilians ground this Right of Supremacy in Spirituals upon a Bull of Pope Vrban II. granted to Roger and his Successours wherein are these words Quae per legatum actur● sumus per vestram industriam legat●vice cohiberi volumus Cardinal Barenius who in his (1) Tome II. Ann. 1097. Annals resutes that pretended Spiritual Monarchy thinks that that Bull was granted by the Antipope Anacletus and that it hath not been faithfully related But it is far more probable that it is false and that it hath been forged during that time that Sicily had no Communication with the Church of Rome from which it was separated refusing to acknowledge the Holy See either in Spirituals or Temporals It was an easy matter an that time for the Kings Officers to foist in that Bull and to put it in execution for Sicily continued ninety years under an Interdict from the year 1282. until the Second year of the Pontificat of Gregory II. who took off the Interdict During that time Martin King of Arragon made great attempts upon the Ecclesiastick Jurisdiction and ordained that Bishops themselves might not Excommunicate any without his Permission or the Permission of his Vice-roy but Sicily being in possession of that Spiritual Monarchy the Kings of Spain who take the Title of Catholick Kings have rather encreased than diminished it Charles V. caused an exact search to be made to find out Titles to Justify this pretended Monarchy but it was no where found save in the Book of the Pandects that was printed in the year 1526. and confirmed by Charles V. the seventh of December the same year Afterward in the year 1556. there was a Book published called the Monarchy wherein are contained the Rights of that Jurisdiction And that this Book might be rendered the more Authentick it was signed by all of the sacred Colledge that is to say the Council of the Kingdom One Copy of it is preserved in the Royal Chancery of Sicily and another Copy was sent to the King The Bull of Vrban II. which is the Basis of the Sicilian Monarchy is related at length by Fazelle in his (1) Decad. 2. lib. 7. cap. 1. History of Sicily Printed at Palermo in the year 1558. But historians who wrote before him have made no mention of it And it is very probable that Fazelle took it from John Lucas Barberius a Sicilian who about the Year 1513. composed in favours of King Ferdinand a Volume of all the Priviledges and Titles of the Kingdom of Sicily which he called caput Brevium and in that Volume he inserted the Bull of Vrban II. As if the Original had been in the Chancery It is not to be imagined how much the word Monarchy hath displeased the Court of Rome (1) Baron Ann. 1097. n. 28. Nomen hactenus inauditum says Cardinal Baronius tunc proclamater infaustum adscribitur chartis memorie perpetuae consecratur jam regiis cusumlypis imperatorio promulgatum Edicto And he adds that the Kings of Spain in quality of Kings of Sicily take a Title that Tyrants and the greatest Enemies of the Church of Rome durst never claim (2) Ibid. n. 30. Quod nunquam à piis regibus nec à Tyrannis ipsis Romanae Ecclesiae perduellibus neque ipsis acerbissimis Romanae Ecclesiae persecutoribus Friderieo filio atque nepotibus ejusmodi Monarchiae nomen expugnatum ullatenus reperitur In fine the Cardinal pretends that to atrribute to Sicily a Spiritual Monarchy is to overthrow Divine Laws and that it is only to the Church of Rome to which our Saviour hath given that Title But the Kings of Spain slight all the complaints of the Court of Rome as to that and persist in the enjoyment of the Rights of their Spiritual Monarchy in Sicily where they acknowledge no other Pope but the King or such as he does commissionate in his place So that it may be said there are two Popes and two Sacred Colledges in the Church to wit the Pope of Rome and the Pope of Sicily to whom also may be added the Pope of England for the King of England takes the Title also of Supream over the Churches within his Dominions Thus far we have shewn the Original and Progress of Ecclesiastical Revenues how they have been administred and in what manner they have come into the Possession of Chapters and Monasteries We have besides spoken of the power of Bishops and Princes and of the Pope also over such Revenues It would be now time to shew more particularly by what ways Popes have made themselves almost absolute Masters of the goods of the Church and to observe the quarrels they have had with Princes upon that account But since Fra. Paolo hath handled that in his History and that it is sufficient to read the Decretals to be informed in what manner their authority hath been by degrees established I shall speak no more