thirtéenth a most louing father of the Churches children Rainoldes Whether that these Popes or other haue béene good and their elections lawfull it is not the question Perhaps you praise them for affection perhaps they haue béene good as Popes For Popes in our daies are praysed for their goodnes when they surpasse not the wickednes of other men as a good historian who knew and loued them well doth note in Clemens the seuenth Marcellus the second dyed the two and twentéeth day of his Popedome not without suspicion of poyson saith your Genebrard because some men thought that he would be to good Pius the fourth Pius the fifth and Gregorie the thirtéenth haue held the Popedome longer If they were good Popes I trust they were not too good As for their electious the daies are yet too young to sée the faithfull stories of them But if they were chosen as their predecessours according to the custome of the Church of Rome then by the elections of Pius the third Iulius the second Leo the tenth Clemens the seuenth and Cardinall Woolseis letters suing to succéede Clemens wise men may coniecture how lawfully they were chosen You say that there were many tumultes and schismes chiefly through the Emperours meanes before the Popes election could bee wrested from them and brought to the Cardinals but after that time thinges began to mende In déede they haue mended as sower ale doth in summer For of thirtie schismes in the Church of Rome so many as no Church can boast of besides the worst and the longest hath béene sith that time euen the nine and twentieth which lasted by the space of fiftie yeares together first with two Popes at once then with three And if the Emperour Sigismund had not béene through whose meanes the Councell of Constance was assembled and the three remoued by this time your Church might haue had as many Popes as in the Reuelation the scarlet coloured beast hath heads But to leaue the Emperours and proue the point in question that since the Popes were chosen onely by the Cardinals there haue béene as monstrous Popes as were before and haue come in as vnlawfully there are so many examples that it is hard to make choise or know where to beginne amongst them Let him be the first who compiled part of the canon law and that lusty decretall of the Popes supremacy euen Boniface the eighth Who being inflamed with desire of the Popedome induced Pope Caelestin a simple man to resigne it whether by perswading him that hee was not able to wéelde a charge so weighty or by procuring some to sound vnto him in the night a voice as it were from heauen that if he would be saued he must resigne the Popedom or by both these practises but he induced him to resigne it and not looking to be called by God as was Aaron he got it to him selfe by vnorderly meanes all that ambition could deuise Neither did he gouerne it better then he got it For being a man of intolerable pride and thirsting after gold vnspeakeably he bore himselfe as Lorde of spirituall thinges and temporall throughout the whole world He tooke vpon him at his lust to giue and take away kingdomes to banish men and to restore them and sought to bréede terrour rather then religion in the mindes of Emperours of Kinges of Princes of peoples and of nations He was the first autour of your yeare of Iubilee proclaiming full remission ofsinnes to all them who came in pilgrimage to Rome a great gaine to him and his and at that Iubilee he shewed himselfe in his solemnities one day attired like a Pope an other like an Emperour and hauing a naked sworde before him he sate and saide with loude voyce Beholde the two swordes here He cast his predecessour Caelestine into prison and brought him there vnto his graue He vexed the countrie of Italie with warres and nourished discords amongst them He saide that both the land and persons of the Scottes belonged to his Chappell that vnder that pretense hée might trouble England and cite king Edward to his iudgement He refused to accept of Albert chosen Emperour by the Princes of Germany because they made choise without his authoritie who had he said him selfe the right ofboth swordes Hee depriued the French king of his kingdome vpon displeasure and moued the king of England to make warre against him and graunted to Albert that he should be Emperour on condition that he would take the realme of Fraunce also and thrust the lawfull king out of it And more he would haue done of such Papall affaires vnlesse the French king to tame his pride had tooke him prisoner whereupon he dyed within a few dayes for griefe This is that Boniface ofwhom the saying goeth He entred like a foxe he raigned like a lyon hee dyed like a dogge An other like to him but in an other kinde is Iohn the three and twentéeth Who got while he was Cardinall a great deale of mony and finding the Cardinals somewhat poore and néedy gaue them gentle rewardes Whereupon they seing him to be a liberall man made him Pope for it But that liberalitie was his chiefest vertue For he was fitter for the campe then for the Church for profane thinges then for the seruice of god as knowing no faith nor religion at all an oppressour of the poore a persecuter of iustice a mainteiner of the wicked a sanctuarie of Simonie an ofscouring of vices giuen wholy to sleepe to fleshly lustes wholy contrarie to the life and maners of Christ a mirror of vnhonest and infamous behauiour a deuiser a profound deuiser of all vilanies in a worde so lewde and wretched a caitife that amongst them who knew his conuersation he was called commonly a diuell incarnate Yet these most holie Lordes Boniface and Iohn are nothing in comparison of Alexander the sixth For although they both did get the triple crowne corruptly yet they conueyed it closely Alexander the sixth did buy the voyces of many Cardinals openly partly with money partly with promises of his offices and liuinges chiefely the voyce of Cardinall Ascanio for which hee did couenant to giue the chiefest office of the Court of Rome and Churches and castles and a palace full of moueable goods of marueilous great value According vnto which beginning he went forwarde and proued as it was thought he would most pernicious to Italie and all Christendome For though hee excelled in sharpenes of wit in iudgement in eloquence and was verie carefull and quicke in matters of importance yet hee passed farre these vertues with his vices maners most beastly not sinceritie not modestie not truth not faith not religion couetousnes vnsatiable vnmeasurable ambition
of S. Cecilies parish and perpetuall administrator of the Archbishopricke of Yorke And Aeneas Siluius Bishop of Siena when he was made Cardinall Deacon must be called not Bishop but Cardinall Siluius Deacon of S. Eustaces and elect Bishop of Siena A shift somewhat straunge and such as a while the Popes themselues were ashamed off at least they vsed it sparingly vntill the time of Clemens the fifth He when the yse was broken did wade more boldly through And after him his successours who staide in France as he did and set the Sée of Rome in the citie of Auinion did bring it to a common practise in so much that none almost was made Cardinal who had not a Bishopricke either in title or in commenda or in perpetuall administration So by these deuises which all were inuented by the Popes at Auinion they had now disfurnished many Churches of Bishops to furnish in word the Church of Rome with Priestes and Deacons in déede the Court of Rome with rich and mightie Cardinals Yet this is the least parte of that abomination of desolation which they haue set in the holy places For vnder pretense that it is their duetie to sée that all Churches be prouided of fitte pastors they haue reserued Church-liuings when and which they listed to their own bestowing and them haue they seazed on to maintaine the port of their Cardinals too This was not onely done but also professed to be done to that ende by Clemens the sixth Who hauing made new Cardinals reserued the benefices in England that were void and should be void next besides Bishoprickes Abbeies to the summe of two thousand markes and for them he prouided two Cardinalls to be their pastours Whereof when stay was made by king Edward the third who seeing how the Church and realme were both decayed by thoâ—e prouisions for aliens did inhibit them to bee seâ—uâ—d Pope Clemens wrote vnto him that hauing lately made newe Cardinalls of the Church of Rome he could not with reason but prouide for them as it was seemely for their state this he had doon by prouiding benefices which either were presently voide or should be after vnto a certaine summe for two of them in England for the rest in other kingdomes and coastes of Christendome through all the which almost hee had made the like prouision for new Cardinalls neither amongst them all had found any rebellion so he termed it saue this in England onely The Cardinals which Clemens had then made were twelue Two of them he furnished with so many benefices as should be woorth two thousand markes I cannot say precisely what number that might be But it must be noted that as the rate of money and price of thinges hath growen a benefice worth thrée hundred markes or better now was then not worth a hundred neither did the Pope choose the fattest benefices but such as next came to the net and hee meant his Cardinals should haue that pension cléere besides their farmers shares and vicars or curates So that the two Cardinals by probable coniecture might haue an hundred benefices before they had their yearely two thowsand marke pension But let it be eightie seuentie sixtie let it be fiftie or if that séeme too much let it be fortie The Pope did prouide as for them so for the rest who being ten mo must haue two hundred by proportion Which proportion if it be drawne to all nay to halfe nay to a quarter of the Cardinals whom Clemens and his successours haue made sith that time for these twelue score yeares the number of parishes will rise to many thousandes which they haue laide waste as flockes without pastors to maintaine the state of their Cardinals onely Yet this is but a part of that abomination of desolation which they haue set in the holy places For as though the profits of so many Churches were too small a liuing for the Priestes and Deacons of the Court of Rome they haue gone forwarde from pluralities of benefices to pluralities of bishopricks And vnder the colour of commending as they name it that is commiting them to some of trust for a time till good and godly Bishops might bee prouided for them they haue put two Bishoprickes vnto one Cardinall yea sometimes three yea foure yea fiue yea some times sixe Cardinall Hippolytus who plucked out the eyes of the Lord Iulius his owne naturall brother because a damsell whom hee loued did loue his brother more then him and confessed to him that it was the beautie of his brothers eyes wherewith she was so rauished this Cardinall being deacon of S. Lucies in Rome Archpriest of S. Peters had the Bishoprickes of Milan Capua Strigonium Agria Mutina and Ferrara Of the which sixe three be Archbishoprickes of sundrie kingdomes and dominions Milan of Lombardie Capua of Naples Strigonium of Hungarie distant ech from other some hundreds of miles the other three are somewhat neerer to their felowes one in Hungarie two in Italie But if the Popes haue taken sixe dioceses and prouinces lying so farre a sunder and made them all desolate of Bishops and Archbishops to maintaine one Cardinals pompe and him a Deacon what hath the desolation béene which they haue brought on dioceses and prouinces that might bee ioyned more fitly to maintaine the rest and them of higher calling as Cardinall Priestes and Bishops Yet behold a greater abomination of desolation then this nay then al these which I haue touched hitherto For the liuinges of the Cardinals with auailes thereto belonging were great of themselues and did perhaps content some or if they did not yet the number of those caterpillers was small in comparison But the Popes had other hungrie knightes about them kinsmen officers seruants retainers vasals hangers on and all the rable of their Court whose liuingâ—s were not crummes of the Cardinals tables whose number was as the grashoppers which couered the face of Egipt And they were also made pastors of Churches not to féede them but to sléese them by the same conueyances of Papall reseruations commendaes prouisions and other such Egyptian tâ—ickes An example of it in our English Chronicles of Henry the third in whose dayes the Pope enioyned by one mandate to the Bishops of Canterburie Lincolne and Sarisburie that they should prouide for thrée hundred Romans in benefices next â—â—cant and they should giue no benefice vntill they had pâ—ouided for so many competently But what speake I of thrée hundred The Romans and Italians were multiplyed so within a fewe yeares in English church liuings by Gregorie the ninth much but more by Innocentius the fourth thâ—t when the king caused a vewe thereof to bee taken throughout the whole realme the summe of their reuenues was found to be yearely thrée score thousand markes to the which summe the yearely reuenues of the crowne of
England did not amount The king though misliking the disorder greatly yet being loth to medle with the redresse of it for feare of the Pope the stripes of whose wrath against his father king Iohn against his coosen Otho the Emperour and Othos successour Fridericke the second were bleeding fresh before his eyes the Nobles and Commons sent a supplication to Pope Innocentius and the generall Councell assembled then at Lyons Wherein vpon complaint that an infinite number of Italians in England had the charge of flockes who neither fedde nor knew nor cared for their sheepe but receiued onely the fruites reuenues and caried them out of the realme that the yearely rents of Italians in England amounted to three score thousand markes and vpward besides diuers other auailes which they reaped where they sowed not that England hoped for some reliefe of these grieuances when Innocentius was made Pope but now it is oppressed more out of measure by the Popes legat who entring late into the land with larger power and commission then euer legate had doth exceede excessiuely he giueth to Italians some benefices alreadie voide worth thirtie markes or more yearely some that fall voide by the decease of Italians he thrusteth new Italians into some he doth prouide when they shall be voide to be reserued for Italians moreouer he wresteth out immoderate pensions from religious persons and vseth to excommunicate interdict of Church-seruice of sacraments of Christian buriall them who gainesay him and resist him vpon this complaint the Nobles and Commons of the realme of England made humble sute vnto his fatherhood that he wold extend the hand of mercy to his children ease them of those burdens of grieuances and oppressions detestable to God and men The messengers by whom this supplication was sent presented it before the Pope vnto the generall Councell To whom they made complaint withall of a clause in the Popes bulles called Non obstante by which hee brake all lawes and orders of the church to serue these his purposes For whatsoeuer made against the tenor of his bull he vsed to remoue it with a Non obstante As for example the Churches law and order confirmed by a Councell was that one man should haue but one benefice and none should haue any but he who could himselfe discharge the duetie personally The Pope sendeth forth his bulles for fiue Romans the sonne of Rumfrede and such and such that they shall be prouided for of so many benefices as may be worth to each of them a hundred pounde yearely Non obstante that law Pope Innocent was grieued at this supplication and complaint of England which touched his supremacie so néere to the quicke Howbeit for the present hee made them faire promises and sent them sundry priuileges from the Councell of Lyons that Patrones thenceforth should freely presente and Bishops should admitte fit persons to benefices who would and could well serue the charge that the Clerke of his Escheker that was his legate should prouide but for twelue moe without consent of the Patrones that if English men would be studious honest and thankeful chiefely the sonnes of Noble men he would prouide for them also and dispense honorably with the worthiest of them for pluralitie of benefices finally that no Italian should immediately succeede an Italian which was obtained for their treacheries who when one that had a benefice was dead would foyst an other into his roome And these thinges were promised but they were promised onely For after that the Councell was dissolued once the Pope played the Pope and brake them all with Non obstante And as Pharao hardened his hart against Israel and laied more worke vpon them when they desired ease of bondage so did Innocent against England In so much that after sixe or seuen yeares when a vew was taken againe of the bricke made of our English Israel for the Italian Pharao the summe of those reuenues which before amounted to three score thousand marks was growne to three score thousand and ten with the aduantage Now if the outrage of this abominatâ—on were so monstrous in one realme what was it in all throughout the rest of Christendome If Popes did so exceede aboue three hundred yeares ago in the prime of their Papacie when the iointes of it were yet scarsely knit what is it likely they did after If by one policy they brought so great wealth vnto their Court and state yea by part of one applyed to furnish their Italians what may bee thought of the same applied to furnish the home-borne each in their owne countrie What of so many others some of them as fruitfull as this some more fruitfull What of their whole gouernment wherein they haue claimed a fulnes of power to doo what they list and they haue put their claime in practise What wordes may serue to vtter the spoiles which they haue made of the Church of Christ first by ordeining of the Church-officers in creating Bishops Archbishops Patriarkes and weauing palls for them in disanulling the elections of some who lawfully were chosen in graunting some who could not be chosen lawfully to haue the roomes by postulations in chopping and changing their persons from one Sée to an other by translations and their dioceses by diuisions in giuing pastours liuings away â—uer their heads by reuersions or aduowsons in shaping newe creatures Preaching Friers and Minorites and giuing them the power of pastours in dispensations with boyes dispensations with bastards dispensations with idiotes that they may haue the charge of soules dispensations with murderers with adulterers with Simoniaks that they may kepe their benefices dispensations for pluralities that one may haue twentie dispensations for non-residence that they néede neuer come vnto them to be short in reseruaes accesâ—es regresses coadiutories vnions preuentions permutations and a thousand such deuises belonging to the market of benefices and bishoprickes Secondly by dealing with the Church causes wherein they haue receyued appeales from all quarters that they might fish in troubled water they haue fetched persons a thousand miles off by citations to their consistorie they haue disturbed the peace and discipline of the Church by sending legates a latere by putting matters to their delegates by priuileging men from lawes and exempting inferiours from their superiours regiment they haue multiplied humaine decrees and made them snares to catch foules lawes that none shall mary in this or that degrée of carnall kinred or spirituall canons that men whose persons haue such or such a blemish shall not ascend to priestly orders vowes of pilgrimage of chastitie of pouertie of obedience of Nunrie Moonkry Fryery which all they haue released for money yea they haue released othes solemne othes and haue giuen licences to commit periurie they haue made sale of forgiuenes of sinnes and marchandize of mens soules they haue turned repentance
it Beside that if Constantine had made this pretensed donation in déed yet cometh it short of that for proofe whereof you cite it to wéet that the temporall dominion of the Popes is much lesse now then it was almost thirteene hundred yeares since For the citie of Rome which in this donation is saide to haue béene giuen them is but a litle corner of their dominion now Hart. But if you ioyne thereto that which I added of S. Peters patrimonie belonging vnto them within two or thrée hundred yeares after Constantine it cometh home to the proofe of that which I purposed at least to the disproofe of that which your men auouch in their Centuries For although they say that this encrease of wealth in the Church of Rome began after S. Gregories time yet are they notably disproued by S. Gregorie himselfe in whose reigne as it may probably be thought the Churches possessions were more then they bée now at this present And this appeareth by sundrie of his epistles where hee maketh expresse mention of S. Peters patrimonie in Africke in Naples in Campania in Dalmatia in Fraunce in Italie in Sicilia in Sardinia and in many other countries Rainoldes You haue heard M. Hart of sir Thomas More and perhaps you haue read the historie writen by him of king Richard the third Hart. A worthie worke of a worthieman Who if he had gone through in like sorte with all our English historie we might compare with Greekes or Romans But what of that historie Rainoldes In it he reporteth that Richard was a tyrant and did vsurpe the regall dignitie vpon him selfe defrauding Prince Edward whose it was by right Doth sir Thomas More say true in this of Richard or doth he misreport him Hart. True out of question as it is apparant by all our historians who consent therein Rainoldes Yet there is a writer who saith that king Richard did not vsurpe the crowne And for proofe thereof hee bringeth forth sundrie old recordes and euidences of the house of Yorke by which it is shewed that Richard had landes in Calice in Canterburie in Kent in Northumberland in Ireland in England in Garnsey and in Iersey before Prince Edwardes time wherein â—ir Thomas More reporteth him to haue vsurped Hart. He might haue those landes while he was Duke of Glocester and not king of England Wherefore the writer who bringeth this to proue that he vsurped not the crowne disproueth not the historie of Sir Thomas More but bewrayeth his owne frowardnesse or follie Rainoldes You are the writer M. Hart. I shewed by the historie of Sigonius and others most worthie of credit that the Popes vsurped Rome and the dominion of the Roman Dukedom defrauding the Emperour of his right by treason You affirme the contrarie And for proofe thereof you alleage sundrie epistles of S. Gregorie whereby it appeareth that they had possessions in Afrike in Naples in Campania in Dalmatia in Fraunce in Italie in Sicilia and in Sardinia before the time wherein Sigonius declareth them to haue vsurped But as your selfe answered they might haue these possessions while they were Bishops and not Princes Wherefore in bringing this to proue that they vsurped not the Princedome so to terme it and temporall dominion of the Papall State you disproue not the historie of Sigonius and the rest but bewray your owne frowardnesse or follie Nay you bewray greater fautes of euil guilful dealing as you hâ—ndle it For whereas Sigonius the rest whom I cited to pâ—oue the Popes vsurping are of yâ— Popes religion therefore of greater credit against the Popes you say nought to them but name in their steed our autors of the Centuries Euen as if the writer whom I told you of being vrged with the credit of sir Thomas More and English historians should answere that although Funccius a German report in his Chronicle that Richard did vsurpe yet is he notably disproued by the euidences of the house of Yorke Againe where your conclusion ought to be resolute that the Churches possâ—ssions were more in S. Gregories time then they be now you say they were more as it may probably be thought To ouerbeare veritie with probabilitie the truth with likelihood of truth and leaue your selfe a lurking hole that although the thing be found to be false yet you may escape who vouch it not as true but probable Moreouer the time of Gregories being Bishop you terme it his reigne thereby to bréede opinion that he had the temporall dominion as they haue now Wherein that worde is vsed so much the more deceitfully because it prepareth a way to the mistaking of that which you alleage out of Gregories epistles touching S. Peters patrimonie For. S. Peters patrimonie doth signifie the temporall dominion of the Popes in that of Clemangis which you began your answere with And so by this reigne a man would take it here Whereas Gregorie meaneth the landes of the Church and Bishopricke of Rome by S. Peters patrimonie not the dominion temporall which they had not then But in these fautes you are the more excusable because you doo folow the footsteps of Genebrard whose Centurie-writers and perhaps and kingdome and sophistrie might bring you to them vnawares In the next your shame can no way be couered For whereas your lodesman hauing searched Gregories epistles of purpose for S. Peters patrimonie could finde it in no more places but in those which you rehearsed by name you thinking such flyes too small for the Pope doo adde with flat vntruth and many other countries beside that other countries is brought in so too as if Campania Naples and Italie were sundry countâ—ies where Naples is a towne Campania a shire of Italie And yet as though your dealing were sincere and sound you knit it vp thus that seeing for this which is the greatest part so good proofes may be made no doubt but the Popes can shew verie good euidence when neede shal require for sundry other verie great and large giftes which were bestowed vpon their See by diuers Princes many Nobles men and women The question is of the temporall dominion of the Popes The proofe you bring thereof from Constantine is forged from Gregorie is fond So that no part is proued yet much lesse the greatest The chiefest of the rest that Popes can shew for it is Pipines donation and the successours of Pipine In it I haue conuinced them also of vsurping who first did begge and take the territories and ditions which should haue béene restored to their old Lord the Emperour and afterwarde did vse their nâ—w Lord as a vasall and made themselues soueraines of that which was giuen them to hold in fée To be short the vanitie of this vaunt of euidence which the Popes can shew when neede shall require may be perceyued by Eugubinus their atturney generall and principall proctor in this cause Who being enflamed with a Popish deuotion to say the best that
which thēselues haue called for And the chiefest of thē hath wisht that some of theirs might meete in scholasticall combat with any of vs before indifferent iudges trusting that their doctrine which we condemne of fansie and humane tradition should then be inuincibly proued to be most agreeable to Gods word Wherfore sith this combat hath bene vndertaken and that in such sort as lerned men haue thought to be most fit for triall of the truth not by extemporall speaking but writing with aduise the question agreed of the arguments the answeres the replies set downe and sifted of both sides till ech had fully sayd in fine the whole published that Churches and the faithfull all may iudge of it your guides cannot honestly denie you the sight of their inuincible proofes therein The autours of the worke are M. Hart and I. Of whom they haue giuē out in print to the worlde sithence we began it that I though the lernedst as the reporter saith of that sort and order yet did shew my selfe so much the more vnlerned how much the more earnestly I was dealt with but M. Hart a noble champion of Christ and a holy Priest a Bacheler of Diuinitie had taken deeper roote in the foundations of the faith and was of sounder lerning then that the reasons which I no common Minister of the English synagogue brought to ouerthrow him could remoue him from it So that I was faine to go whence I came and leaue him as I found him Now if they themselues thinke this to be true which they haue geuen out they may boldely suffer you to reade our Conference that you may see the triumphe which a noble champiō of yours a holy Priest a Bacheler of Diuinitie hath had of a Minister of the English synagogue an vnlerned Minister and yet the lernedst of that sort But if they will not giue you leaue to reade it then may you suspect that these glorious speeches of their own scholers and base wordes of vs are but sleights of policie as many vauntes lyes be in the same pamphlets wherein these are writen Nay you may suspect that there is somewhat which they are afrayde least you should espie and therefore debarre you frō the meanes of knowing it In deed my deere brethren you are circumuented by them who commend the loue and liberalitie and pietie of the Pope in erecting Seminaries to traine vp English youth vnder the Iesuites and other famous men For the loue pretended towards you therein is to haue you his seruants The liberalitie emploied in feeding and teaching you is to make you pliable and fit therevnto The Iesuites and others set to train you vp are set to noosell you in heresie and treason the pillers of his faith and State The King of Babylon Nabuchodonosor did commaund Asphenaz the Master of his Eunuches that of the Israelites he should bring children who were without blemish well fauoured wise and skilfull and had abilitie in them that he should teach them the artes and tongue of the Chaldeans And the King appointed them prouision euerie day of a portion of his meate and of the wine which he dranke that they being brought vp so for three yeares might at the end thereof stand before the King Pope Gregorie the thirteenth loueth you brethren as King Nabuchodonosor did the Israelites He hath founde the meanes that there should bee brought to the Masters of his Eunuches Iesuites others a number of the best wittes out of England that they may teach you the artes and toung of the Romans And he hath appointed prouision for you of moonthly exhibition in bountifull sort but to what ende that after certain yeres of this education you may stand before the Pope Daniel perceaued that the Kings loue liberalitie was not single but sought his own profit which his felowes also Ananias Misael and Azarias saw If you haue the spirite of Daniel and his felowes you wil see as much in the Popes double loue and liberalitie Sure hee geueth iuster cause to distrust it then the King did For the Kings drift in trayning vp them that they might stand before him was only that they should attend and waite vpon him as courtiers in his palace Or if because he chose them of the blood royall and seede of the nobilitie he had a farder drift it was but the assurance of their land of Iuda But you are trained vp by the Pope to serue him in prouinces abroade not in his palace at home to subdue for him that which hee hath lost not to assure him of that hee hath subdued nor to make him soueraine of one land but of two and them not small of territorie and state as Iuda was but greater and mightier England Ireland For which a poorer fisher then the Pope is would be content to angle with a hooke of golde although it cost him more then your two Seminaries are lykely to doo Pope Leo the tenth did spend a hundred thousand ducats in one day vpon the pompe and brauerie of his coronation and eight hundred thousand more in one warre against the Duke of Vrbin to spoile him of his State thereby to establish a nephew of his owne in it In his dayes Luther rose the Protestants had not touched the triple crowne yet His successours haue felt what danger it is in If some of their offals be spent with greater shew of almes on scholers now chiefly on such scholers as may defēd their crowne the Papacie you know is discreetely menaged this menaging doth proue not lesse ambition but more discretion The policie of Gregorie the thirteenth appeereth therin not the pietie His cost vpon captains souldiours and ships sent into Ireland discloseth the fountaine of his liberalitie and loue to our nation Whereof that is also a cleerer proofe plainer token that the Masters of his Eunuches are set to teach you the artes and toung of the Romans as Asphenaz the Master of the Kinges Eunuches was to teache the Israelites the artes and toung of the Chaldeans I meane not the Italian toung though where they will you to lerne that withal it is a special point of the kings policie but I meane the Romish tongue so to call it and language of Poperie The knowledge of the artes yee are not all taught but yee are all taught the knowledge of this toung be ye Philosophers or Diuines Philosophers in sermons in catechismes in confessions Diuines in the lectures of cases of controuersies of positiue Diuinitie and they who can of Hebrue and Schoole-diuinitie too The woman was deceued through desire of knowledge which the serpent promised her Great thinges are promised you by Seminarie-proctors of perfitter knowledge to be obtained there then with vs in England And truely for the artes and toung of the Chaldeans I
body and he alone performeth the dutie of an head vnto it by giuing it power of life of feeling of mouing and him hath God appointed to be the head to the Church and by him all the body furnished and knit togither by iointes and bandes encreaseth with the encreasing of God Hart. We graunt that Christ is properly the head of the church the principall and quickning head But this head is imperiall so to terme him and inuisible The Pope is a visible and ministeriall head yet in truth a head also For of the head there are two dueties the one to bee the fountaine out of the which there floweth life into the rest of the body the other to direct by his rule and power the outward functions of the body The former duety doth agree to God alone and Christ. The later to the seruice and ministery of men too Rainoldes This your answere of two heades doth stand with more reason then his who said that Christ and Christes vicar Peter and Peters successor the Pope are all but one head of the church Howbeit so to make a twofold head as you do by the variety of two dueties it is not to diuide but to rent a sunder the dueties of the head and to make the Pope a head imperiall rather then a ministeriall For by rule and power to direct either the inward or outward functions of the bodie is the chiefe and proper function of the head agréeing to that head alone that giueth power of life and féeling and mouing to the body Wherefore sith Christ hauing bound him selfe by his promise to be with vs vntill the end of the world doth giue this power vnto his church by the effectuall working of his holy spirite which doth quicken both the whole and euery member of his body they who do diuide the preeminence of this duety betwéene him and the Pope allotting to him the inward to the Pope the outward functions to be directed deserue to be attainted of treason against the Lord. For séeing that to exercise this rule and dominion is a prerogatiue royall and proper to the king of kings to giue it either in whole or in part to any subiect can not be a lesser offence then hie treason Hart. If you account this to be treason against the Lord and do attaint vs of it You must attaint him selfe of it who by his word hath brought vs to it For S. Paule comparing the church vnto a body to shew the sundry giftes of Christians and in their sundry giftes their seuerall dueties by the similitude of members doth mention a head amongst them The eâ—e cannot say vnto the hand I haue no neede of thee nor the head to the feete I haue no neede of you Here the name of head must by al likelyhood bee meant of the Pastor in respect of the flock But it cannot be meant of Christ. For he may say to vs I haue no neede of you and so he willeth vs also when we shal haue done all things that are coÌ„manded vs to say we are vnprofitable seruants It must be meant therefore of Peter in respect of the rest of the Apostles and by consequent of the Pope in respect of all Bishops Rainoldes If Paule had so meant it either of Peter or of the Pope he had a tongue of the learned he could easily haue so expounded it But in the applying of his similitude to his purpose he sheweth that he meant by the name of head them who had the greatest graces of Gods spirite by feete hands and eies them who not so great though greater some then other Hart. Them who had the greatest Nay the name of head doth shew it must be one and that one visible head which wée call a ministeriall head vnder Christ proportionable to the body of Christ I meane the Church Of the which visible and ministeriall head those wordes of S. Paule may bee truely verified The head cannot say to the feete I haue no neede of you Rainoldes Indeede if the Pope be signified by the head those words will fitte him well For Cardinall Poole discoursing on the same reason of the Popes supremacie doth make as him the head so kings to be the féete And it is true the Pope can not say to kings I haue no neede of you It would bée hard going for him if they were not But if because Saint Paule doth in that similitude mention a head therefore there must be one visible head proportionable to the body of Christ that is the Church then because S. Paule doth mention the féete there must bee néedes also two visible féete by the like proportion Now I would gladly know of you Maister Hart which you will make the two féete of your church The Emperour I trow must be the right foote The left who The king of Spaine What shall the French king do then It is well that the king of Scots is no member of it nor the king of Denmarke Marry we had newes of the king of Swethland that Iesuits had conuerted him Shal he be the left foote Or shall the king of Poleland set in a foote for it Or is the king of Boheme nearer it There is a king of Bungo too who is reported to protect your religion in his countries and likewise the Great Turke other princes of Mahomets sect they may be féete in time also But how many féete may this body haue May it haue sixe seauen eight may it haue twentie visible féete and may it not haue ten not foure not two may it haue but one visible head Hart. Cardinall Pole compareth kinges vnto féete not as though they were the lowest partes of the church for hée counteth them as speciall members though not heads but because the church in the course of her growth was last of all increased with them as with féete and so did make an end of growing Rainoldes Then in Saint Paules time the church had no féete but a head without them And what doth he meane to saye that the head could not speake to the feete when it had no féete to speake too Hart. Yes it had féete then but of an other sort For they who were of lower degrees and meaner giftes in the church of Christ are resembled to féete in comparison of others who were in those respects as hands and eies aboue them Rainoldes And do you thinke the church had but two such féete Or had it many hundreds For christians were growne long before to thousands and it is not likely the most of them were eyes and hands Hart. It had no doubt many But you must not racke the members of similitudes beyond the principall pointes whereto they are applied and meant For els you might infer too that the church must haue but two eies and two hands because a mans body to which S. Paule resembleth the church hath no more Rainoldes As you say Yet
into paines of penance and penance into mines of siluer and golde they haue proclaimed Iubilees of pardons plenarie as they call them to all who came to Rome euery hundreth yeare and visited Churches there deuoutly these Iubilees they haue abridged from an hundred yeares to fiftie from fiftie to thirtie thrée from thirtie thrée to twentie fiue because all Christians came to not Rome for them they haue sent their pedlers abroad with pâ—ckes of pardons that all might buye them at their doores they haue reserued cases and crimes of greatest value as Simonie Sodomie offense of Church-liberty from which none might absolue but they and to absolue men vpon doing of penance they haue built at Rome a Papall exchange called the Penitentiarie where these absolutions are sold at certaine rates neither being satisfied by this exchaunge with the liuing they haue sold their wares vnto the dead also but the liuing must pay for them so many crownes so many soules to be forgiuen all their sinnes and rid out of the paines of purgatorie Thirdly by disposing of the Church-goods which they haue conueyed as the vniust but wise steward from the Lord to serue them selues they haue charged the liuinges of Churches and Churchmen with pensions tributes subsidies they haue exacted of them fifteenes tenthes fiftes thirdes moyities of their substance to the maintenance of warres which they haue waged with the Emperours they haue robbed benefices to enrich Abbeies by appropriations that afterwarde themselues might gleane the greater fruit of Abbeyes they haue made Prelates and such as would be Prelates to compound with them selues for palls for crosier-staues for miters for ringes for signing of billes and to compound with their seruants for writing perusing subscribing allowing conferring registring taxing receyuing keeping deliuering and for the coarde and lead wherewith their bulles are tyed and sealed they haue deuised new officers yea new heardes and companies of officers in their chauncery purposely to this intent that they might sell those roomes the which being sold for many thousand crownes they forced poore suters who came to Rome for grace or iustice to pay it by enhauncing the charges of their bulles the armie of their Registers Notaries Protonotaries Enditers Writers Abridgers Dataries Rescribendaries Accounters Soliciters Plummers Regarders Regentes Poursuiuants Clerkes of their Ceremonies Clerkes of their chamber Clerkes of their eschequer and infinite other peasantes they haue kept in wages with the price of Christians bloud they haue raised an yearely and ordinarie reuenue of first fruites of tithes of the goods of Abbats Bishops and Cardinals deceased which they haue seazed vpon as exectors and when they haue licensed them to make testaments yet haue they kept them selues a share as of euery Cardinall beside fiue hundred ducates which he payeth for his ring all his chappell-iewels ornaments and vessels whether of gold or siluer crosses candlestickes chalices Images and other such eschetes and in a word their ginnes hookes haue béene so many to get the goods of men out of al coastes into their coffers that a Roman Courtier saith the Popes eschequer is like vnto the Sea whereinto all riuers doo runne and yet it ouerfloweth not Fourthly by abusing of the Church-censures for what els should I call it when they haue vsed them as instruments of violence to compasse all that they did couet If any eyther Patrone or Bishop or Archbishop refused to commit the charge of English flockes to Roman pastors or rather woolues if any reproued the wicked sale and godlesse chaffer of their dispensations absolutions pardons if any would not yeelde to pay them such taxes as they required by their legats their marchants their collectors their nuntios spies poursuiuaÌ„ts straight as the person was so came a censure out against him either suspension from administring his office or interditement from vse of Church-seruice or excommunication from the felowship of Christians or citing him to Rome to chastise him by correption or denouncing him an heretike if he continued rebellious and then the secular power must burne him A practise so common that ordinarily the Auditour of the Popes Eschequer is autorized to excommunicate and execute other censures if the Courtisans who pay tribute for license to bee common whoores other farmers of holy rents kepe not touch in bringing in And because these censures haue not preuailed alwayes to atchieue their purposes therefore as they enlarged them against ciuill powers to purchase somewhat thence as from the king of England beside his Peter-pence a thousand markes yearely which yet was but a pety-larceny so they strengthned them against ecclesiasticall by the othe of fealty which they haue woon of Prelats to maintaine the Papacie and royalties of S. Peter Chiefly by winding in autoritie withal that they may depriue them and none may depriue Bishops but they That if Bishops will not agrée to them in all thinges when they are commanded in vertue of obedience yet for feare of léesing their liuinges and promotions yea their libertie yea their life if they be in the Popes subiection they may learne to serue their Lord. But the head of all whereby those wilde boares haue made the chiefest wast of the Lordes vineyarde is the fifth and last point their making and establishing of the Church-lawes For if they had doon and onely doon these vilanies they might séeme to haue doon them as men not as Popes and it might be hoped when one tyrant were gone the next would gouerne well But they haue confirmed the dooing of them by their lawes and procured those lawes to be receiued as canons rules of the Church-gouernment their Decretals their Clementines their Extrauagants in déed extrauagant their constitutions Apostolike and their vnruly rules of the Apostolike chauncerie The grosse intent and practise whereof is so palpable that Budaeus a learned lawier the French kinges secretarie making a complaint of the great disorder of the Popes and clergie doth lay the blame thereof vpon their lawes and iurisdiction It is growne saith he so much out of kinde from the auncient loue that where there was wont to be a motherly lappe of equitie and goodnes there seemeth now to be a shoppe of law-quarels and lewder meanes to gaine by Thence come those snares of processes and cautions of the Popes ordinances deuised to deceiue the houshold of the Lord. Thence come the punishments of sinne by the purse to the encrease of Prelates profits Thence the sacrilegious cursed sales of those things which cannot be brought into mens traffike without abomination I omit their dispensations which giue leaue for money to sinne without punishment and licence the breach of sacred lawes for filthie lucre So the holy canons and rules of church discipline made in better times to guide the life of cleâ—gie men are now become leaden rules such as Aristotle saith the rules of Lesbian building were For
are not so flatt and perfite in the Latin as you doo english them For vpon the name of Damasus it foloweth qui etsi quaedam de donis Constantini dicit tamen alij insignes ecclâ—siarum doctores Rainoldes But if you reade it so the clause ensuing is vnperfit and hath no sense at all A very manifest token that somewhat is a misse through either the writers or printers or correctours faute And that is qui mistaken as I gesse for neque and put out of his place where it ought to folow vpon the name of Damasus etsi quaedam de donis Constantini dicit tamen neque alij insignes ecclesiarum doctores But howsoeuer the words are to be amended the sense must néedes be as I saide touching Damasus For the sentence is plaine so farre that neither Ierom nor Damasus haue mentioned that donation of Constantine as plaine as that which foloweth that it is not mentioned by other famous Doctors neither And who can imagin that the Centurie-writers should say that Damasus wrote of it when it is so cléere that he wrote not that your Hieronymus Paulus Cusanus do bring his autoritie for a speciall reason against the donation The right therefore of it is not proued by Damasus Now is the possession proued any better out of Ammianus Hart. Ammianus Marcellinus an heathen doth closely signifie some such thing while he complaineth and grudgeth at the Popes wealth and power in the seuen and twentieth booke of his story Rainoldes Ammianus saith Genebrard doth closely signifie some such thing In déede some such thing but so farre from that thing that better nothing were said of it For thus saith Ammianus Marcellinus an heathen of Damasus suing to be Pope Damasus and Vrâ—icinus burning with immoderate ambition of getting the Bishopricke of Rome did fall to very sharpe bickrings through partes taken in so much that the matter grew betweene them to the shedding of blood and to man-slaughter Which tumult Viuentius who was the Lord Deputie being neither able to pacify nor to redresse was forced through their outrage to withdraw himselfe out of the citie into the suburbes and Damasus through the valiant behauiour of his faction got the conquest in the fray And it is certaine that in the Church of Sicininus where Christians make their assemblie there were found a hundred thirtie and seuen carkasses of men slaine in one day and the people furiously bent a great while was afterwarde hardly asswaged Neither do I deny considering the brauerie and pompe vsed in Rome but they who aspire thereto should striue with might maine to obteine it sith when they haue gotten it they shall bee at such ease enriched with the giftes and offerings of matrones and caried abroad in wagons and going in gay apparell and folowing so riotous fare that their bankets are more then princely who might in deed be happy if they would contemne the statelinesse of the citie which cloake they vse for their vices and would liue as certaine Bishops doo in prouinces whom great moderation in vse of meat and drinke and meanenesâ—e of apparell and modestie of countenance commend as pure and shamefast to God and to the godly Behold this is the wealth and power of the Pope which Ammianus Marcellinus complayneth off and grudgeth at Some such thing it is as Constantine donation but it is not it For the wealth is the pompe and brauery that they maintained by the offrings of matrones The power is a faction of cutters so desperate that when they slew aboue a hundred in a fray the Lord Deputie could not helpe it But the verie naming of the Lord Deputie sent thither by the Emperour should haue taught Genebrard that the Emperour kept the citie still as his owne and was the soueraine Lorde of it Wherefore that which he findeth in Ammianus Marcellinus touching the Popes wealth and power is in respect of wealth the donation of matrones in respect of power the donation of cutters but in respect of neither the donation of Constantine Hart. Nay in that I thinke you are deceiued greatly that you say the Emperour kept still the citie as his owne because he sent a Deputie thither For that Deputie or Lieutenant was there to kéepe the citie not for the Emperours vse but for his safegarde onely Rainoldes Not for his vse but for his safegard Hart. I least the Pope growing dayly mightier by reason of wealth and bordering vpon him should encroch on somewhat of his vpon occasion As Princes now adayes are wont to haue their Deputies and Lieutenants resident in cities néere their territories for their owne safegard and not to keepe the cities as theirs which are not theirs Rainoldes Embassadours or Agents perhaps they may haue in realmes or cities néere them But that the French king should haue a Lieutenant or Deputie in London or that the Quéene of Englands Deputy in Ireland should kéepe it not for her vse but for her safegard onely Princes now a dayes I hope vse not that sure the Emperours did not For they had their Lieutenants in the citie of Rome not as Agents but as Regents and their Lieutenants kept it both to their safegard and their vse as Symmachus a famous Lieutenant of the citie and the Emperours who deputed him doo manifestly shew Yea euen Ammianus him selfe to go no further doth import as much in the verie place alleaged by Genebrard where both the Lieutenant is called the ruler of the citie and his gouernment is namely noted So farre off was he from dreaming any such thing as you doo imagin of Constantines donation Hart. It is no great matter though Ammianus Marcellinus a heathen doo not proue it Rainoldes Not so great as that Gilbert Genebrard a Christian doth falsly charge a heathen with the proofe of it But will you go forward to the rest of his witnesses Hart. Iustinian the Emperour confirmed that donation a hundred yeares after and then Arithpert the king of the Lombards Pâ—pine Charles the great Lewes the godly and last of all Otho the great in a publike councell of Rauenna as the Centurie-writers also do report vsing these very wordes Centur. 10. chapt 10. pag. 538. in Leo the eighth and Iohn his successour perhaps out of that Authentike as they call it or constitution of Iustinian That the Church of Rome should enioy the prescription of a hundred yeares Rainoldes A proofe of some weight if all this be true that the Centurie-writers report yea and report it vsing these verie wordes that Iustinian the Emperour confirmed that donation a hundred yeares after and Arithpert Pipine Charles Lewes and Otho But what if these be not the verie wordes in which the Centurie-writers doo report it What if the Centurie-writers doo not report it at all As in déed they doo not For these are their wordes Pope Leo the eighth to shew his thankfullnes
â— Deut. 14.3 u Dan 5.4 Rom. 14.21 1. Cor. 10.20 Leu. 1â— 43 x Dan. 1.10 y Leu. 11.44 z Dan. 1. â—â— a Iohan. Lud. â—â—uis commenâ—ar in Aâ—gâ—stinum de ciuitate Deâ— b Epist. ad Regem Henricum octaâ—um c lib. â—8 cap. 43. d lâ—b 12. cap. 1◠〈◊〉 16. cap. 3â— lib. 18. c. 44. e lib. 8. cap. 27. f lib. 18. cap. 31. g lib. 15. cap. 13. h lib. 16. cap. 37. i lib. 17. cap. 5. k lib. 8. cap. 27. l lib. 18. cap. 2â— m lib. 3. cap. 31· n lib. 2. cap. 13. lib. 19. c. 12 o lib. 1â— cap. 11. 24. lib. 13. caâ— 1. lib. 18. cap. 18. lib. â—0 cap. 16. 〈◊〉 21. â—ap 7. p Of Plantineâ— print at Anwerpe in the yeare of Christ 1576. q Iudg. 16.19 r Printed at Louan by Wellaeus in the yeare 1568. s Annot. in 24. August 27. Decembr t In 30. Iun. u In 5. Mai. x In Censura D. Hessels y In praefat ad Vsuaâ—d Martyrolog cap. 20. z In 25. NoueÌ„b a In praefat poâ—ster edit Vsuard ad lectoreÌ„ b In Vsuarde printed lately at Anwerpe by Nutius c Sixt. Senensis biblioth sanct lib. 2. Claud. Espencaeus de continent lib. 5. cap. 5. d In the yeare of Christ. 1559. e De occident Imper. l. 3. 4. f lib. 3. g lib. 4. * Nescis ab perdita necdum Laomedouteae sentis periuria gentiâ— h 2. Thes. 2.4 i Psal. 82.1 k Rom. â—3 1 l The Iesuit Robert Bellarmin in his Roman lectures Controuer 4. part 2. quaestion 3. Wherein the rest folowe hâ—m after their common doctrine of the Popeâ— supremacie 1 As Pope Innocentius the third dooth c. solâ—tae de maioritaâ—e obedientia 2 As the Rheâ—mists doo in their Annot. on Heb. 5. â— 3 As Sanders Bristow Surius and all the Papists doo in maintenance of the Popes Bulls against Princes m Sigebertus Monachus Genâ—blacenâ—is n Sander de visib monarch eccles lib. 8. demonstrat 3. quód Papa noÌ„ sit Antichrist o Campian Ration 7. p In Chronico ad annuÌ„ Christi 1088. * Haec sola nouitas non dicam haeresis q Dan. 3.12 r Psal. 2.11 s 2. King 23.13 t Psal. 5.7 The first Diuision a Morton into EnglaÌ„d Sanders into Ireland Sander viâ—ib Monarc lib. 7. Sâ—nders lâ—tters to D. Allen â—lâ—ick Burke Geneb â—â—d Chronogr lib. 4. b Bristow Demaund 41. â—otiâ—â— 31. d Deman 4â— The narration of the 〈…〉 â—oome â—ulla Piâ— Quint. anno 156â— as Bristow saith Dem. 41. g Narrat of the Englâ—sh Semin in Roâ—â—e h Ecclesiaâ—â— 1â— vers 12. * ver 10. 11. i 1. Pet. 1.11 12. k Ephes. 4.8 11. l Ioh. 3. â—4 m Rom. 12.3 Epheâ— 4 â— Principior fidei doctrinaliuÌ„ demonstrat method o De Sacramentis in gen de sacram sacrific â—â—charist p Dialog sex contr summi Pontificat c. oppugnatores ab Alâ—no Copo editi q In the end of the booke after the last dialogue A. H. L. N. H. E. V. E. A. C. that is to say Autor huius libri Nicolaus Harpsfieldâ—eum vero edidit Alanus Copus r Summ. Theolog in Magistr Sent. s â—â—ctata Robâ—râ— Politan in Summ. Theolog â—hom Aqu. Conâ—ess Auguâ—tin Hieroâ—â—â— Toâ—â—en 〈◊〉 Paâ—is 1â—80 u 〈◊〉 Conâ—â—ss Augusti ad Lector Opus catechisticum Pet. Canii Iesuit The second Diuision y Ephes 1 2â— z Colos. 2.19 * Staplet principior doctr lib. 6. cap. 16. * Suo imperio a Pope Boniface the 8. c. vnam sanctam extra De maioâ—it obedient b Mat. 28.20 c 1. Cor. 12.21 d Luc. 17.10 e Reginald Pol. Card. pro ecclesiast vnitat defens ad Henric. octau lib. 1. f Iesuit in epist. Iapon lib. 2. 4. g The epistle to the Councell see before the epistle of the persecution of Catholicks in England Acâ— 4.4 i 1. Cor. 12. veâ—s 14. 20. k ver 21. 25. l ver 27. and 28. m vers 31 the 13. 1â— chapters n ver 21. o ver 27. p ver 28. first Apostleâ— e Esai 9 1â— * Suo 〈◊〉 f Ephes. 4.12 1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 g c. Ita Domiâ—us Distinct. 19. * Cited out of Leo in the Rhemish traÌ„slatioÌ„ of the new Testament to proue Peters primacie in the annot on Mat. 16. ver 18. h Leo Epist. 87. * About the yere of Christ 440. i Rom. 7 18. k 1. Cor. 8.1 l Mat. 20.22 * Marc. 3.17 m Socrat. histor eccle lib. 7. cap. 11. Ammian Marcell histor lib. 27. * About the yeare of Christ 370. n 3. Iohn ver 9. o Cic. in Hortens p Leo sermon 1. in anniuers die assumpt suae q Epist. 87. r Epist. 61. s Epist. 50. t Epist. 62. u Epist. 87. x Ser. 2. in anniuer die assumpt suae y Serm. 3. in aniuer die assumpt suae z Epist. 45. a Ibid. b Epist 87. Sermon 1. in ann die assump suae c Epist. 87. d Epist. 24. e Epist. 4. f Platina de vit Pont. in Iohan. sept g Helmoid in Chronic. Slauerâ— lib. 1. cap. 81. h Pope Innocent the third Extra c. per venerabilem qui filij sintlegitimi * Bernard de consid ad Eug. lib. 2. i Abb. Vrsperg in Chron. Hen. quint. Onuphr de septem vrb eccles in Palat. Lateranensi k Greg. Regist. lib. 4. Epist. 34. l lib. 7. Epist. 69. m Platina de vitis Pont. in Greg. Sept. n Popes in their letters sub anulo piscatoris As Gregory the 13. in approbat sodalit B. Mari. o Pope Innocent the fourth extra cap. Maiores de baptism eius effect p Onuphr de sept vrbis ecclesi cap. 1. q Denarius Beati Petri. Eccles. Anglican in concil Lugdun apud Mat. Paris in Henr. 3. r Francisc. Vargas de episcopor iurisdict Pont. Max. autori proposit 4. confirmat 4. s Campian Rat. 4. * Summum honorem primae sedis episcopo id 〈◊〉 Petro deferes De autoritate pontificis ad Stanislaum Oâ—â—cho * Petrus Romanus * Ioh. 1.44 u Ioh. 17.11 x Ioh. 20.15 * Domine as Leo Domini mei * c. Ego Ludoâ—icus distinct 63. c. non qualâ—â— â— q. 1. y Beda ecclesiast histor gen Anglor lib. 3. cap. 25. * Ego vobis dico quia hic est ostiarius ille cui ego contradicere no lo. z Brist motiu 24. Staplet in his English Bede Note saith he the conclusion of the king a Do for vs that S. Peter may forgiue your sins Gregory to the Empresse Regist. lib. 4. ep 34. b S. Peters successor c S. Peters Keyes d S. Peters banner Genebrard Chronograph lib. 4. append e Representing the keyes as giuen onely to Peter f c. Sic omnes Distinct. 19. g Pope Agatho in epist. Sext. Synod ConstaÌ„t act 4. h c. in memoriam distiâ—ct 19. i c. Constantinuâ— Distinct. 96. k Sacraâ— ceremon