the truth is How much a Sot soever he were he prov'd too cunning for them for having smoakt their Consult and Design next time they came according to Custom to Complement him he seiz'd seven of the most busie of them and without any colour of Law presently confiscated all their Estates and thereby so terrified all the rest that no man of them durst think any more of the Curatorship These seven that he had snapt he with a Cruelty suitable to a Pope thrust into a miserable Dungeon and without any respect to their Age or Quality put them to the Rack and all manner of Tortures his gracious Nephew Pregnan standing by to see Execution done and upbraiding them whilst in Torments But King Charles soon after by reason of some Insolencies offer'd to him by the said Pregnan coming to besiege Vrban himself in the said Castle of Lucera his Impietyship was forc'd to fly over the Mountains and with much ado got to Salerno carrying his Captive-Cardinals under a Guard along with him and one of them broken with Tortures not being able to follow him farther he commanded his Hangman to knock out his Brains and left his Body in the Fields without Burial the other six he dragg'd with him all but Cardinal Adam a poor Monk whom he gave to King Richard the Second of England First to Sicily and then to Genua and at last that he might not be troubled with them any longer he caus'd them saith the Author all in one Night to be beheaded But Platina saith they were sown up in Sacks and so flung into the Sea after the manner of punishing Parricides of old which is probable since no doubt the Pope would call their Crime Rebellion against their Spiritual Father But which way soever he dispos'd of them all Authors agree That they were never seen afterwards Lewis King of Hungary dying the before-mentioned Charles his Son was forc'd to go home thither to settle Affairs where by the Treachery of the Queen he was beheaded but had left two Sons Ladislaus and John Children very young at Ferrara whereupon the Pope thirsting after Revenge and to wreck his Spleen on these two innocent Babes for the Injuries he pretended to have received from their Father thinking he had a fit opportunity departs from Genua to Lucca then to Sena and Perusium with a desire as he pretended to see Naples but in truth with a design to defeat the young Princes of their Inheritance but by the prudence and faithfulness of some Counsellors to whose Charge they were left their Lives and Estates were preserved from his malicious Fury Then he return'd to Rome and made in one day 29 Cardinals of whom 26 were Neopolitans In the last year of his Popedom calling to mind of the vast Gain that the Jubilee had brought to Clement the Sixth in the year 1350. He would needs tho against all Reason except only that of private Lucre abreviate the Term and have it kept every 30 years yet so as that it should begin at Christmas Anno Dom. 1388. and continue a year Inclusive But tho he had laid his Bait for Money yet he did not live to see the Fish caught for being bruis'd by a fall of his Mule as he was riding to Perusium he was carried to Rome where after few days he died Paucis admodùm utpote hominis Rustici inexorabilis flentibus Hujus autem Sepulchrum adhuc visitur cum Epitaphio satis Rustico inepto Very few says Platina lamenting his Death for he was a clownish Fellow and inexorable His Tomb is seen to this day with a very Rustical and foolish Epitaph And there 's an end of one of our Popes and if he were as Roman Historians bear us in the hand the Right and most Legitimate of the two we may very well say Bad was the best for amongst other of his meritorious Feats he caus'd a Book to be written by one John de Therano his Chamberlain the beginning whereof is Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar ' s and to God the things that are God's wherein he affirms That these words of our Saviour have place only for a time namely until his Ascention but afterwards they were out of Date and of no force seeing that himself saith John 12. When I shall be taken up I will draw all Men after me that is Pray mark the Wit and Divinity of the Interpretation All Kings and Kingdoms shall be under the Empire of the Pope c. Likewise John the Ligni wrote a Book in favour of this Pope Vrban against his Rival Clement as on the other side the Abbot of St. Vast wrote one for Clement against Vrban wherein they call each Pope Heretic Schismatic Tyrant Thief wicked sower of Sedition Son of Belial and 't is believ'd they were not either of them much mistaken Pope Vrban you have heard left the hopeful Crop of his intended Jubilee to be reap'd by his Successor who was one Peter de Thomacellis a Neopolitan who was call'd Boniface the Ninth Ignorant he was saith our oft-quoted Author Theodoric a Nyem l. 2. c. 6. of writing and singing and so unfit for Administration of the Affairs of the Court of Rome that whilst he lived he hardly understood the Propositions made before him by the Advocates in Consistory in so much that in his time Inscitia ferè venalis fuit in ipsa Curiâ Ignorance was almost buyable as a main step to preferment in the Roman Court Yet in all kind of Simony so far he excell'd all his Predecessors that not one Cardinal or Bishop was promoted without extorting great Sums of Money from them And indeed such an unreasonable Griper had Vrban before found him who only for his Personage and goodly Stature had from a Vagabond Clerk preferr'd him to be a Cardinal That he for meer shame was about to degrade him if he had not been prevented by Death Of this godly Gentleman's Invention as some Authors report were the payments to the Pope call'd Annates concerning which it may not be wide of our mark to inform the vulgar Reader what by that word is understood Annates deriv'd from Annus a year are no other than Primitiae the first Fruits or profits of every Spiritual Living for one year to be paid by the Parson that is invested in it at his first entrance thereupon and near of Kin hereunto are Decimae Tenths take it in a strict sense viz. The Tenth part of the first Fruits or of one years value of all Spiritual Livings and these were anciently paid to the Popes not only in England but throughout the Western parts of Christendom for the Pope as Pastor pastorum claim'd Decimas decimarum and that Jure divino too tho never thought of 'till about or some small time before this year 1399. by Example forsooth of the Jewish High-Priest who Numb 18. 16. was to have Tenths from the Levites But tho Jure Divino as in many other
by the Clergy or some of their Agents during the Kings Absence in France at which time the Notion of setting up for a Regent might be probable But when this supposed Insurrection happened the King was not gone but lay at Eltham 2. The number of the Rebels are said to be Twenty Thousand and Array'd in Warlike manner now 't is very strange and improbable how so great a Number could get together and more strange that they should all be routed and disperst meerly by the Kings coming to them into the Thickets for we do not read of any Army leavied by the King to oppose them Nor do we hear of one person kill'd nor so much as a Broken Pate or a Bloody Nose in all this terrible Insurrection had there been such a Forces their designs so horrid against the Kings Life he would have hardly ventur'd himself amongst them so ill provided 3. It would seem by this Indictment that these Twenty Thousand Rebells were all Horse men for it saith proditoriè modo Insurrectionis contra Ligeanceas suas Equitavêrunt they Treasonably after the manner of an Insurrection came Riding c. Now this increases the Miracle for 't was a work of great time and vast Expence to raise an Army of Twenty Thousand Horse But besides if they were Horse what did they do in St. Gileses Thickets Sure that was none of the best places to Randevouz in again if they came Riding thus in Battel Array Twenty Thousand strong how does the other part of the Indictment hold water where 't is said Privatim Insurgentes Privately Rising a Clause which shrewdly intimates that some of the Clergy have been tampering with this Indictment and that it was not drawn with much Advice of the Kings Learned Council at Law for they would never have thus contradicted themselves or inserted such impertinent words as Privatim Insurgentes 4. Nor is it less pleasant to consider that there should be Twenty Thousand Horse levyed in open Rebellion to perpetrate the most horrid Treason that could be Imagined and these should be all discomfited and such vast Numbers of them taken that our Monkish Historians talk of all the Prisons about London being fill'd with them and yet none of all their names known but Sir John Oldcastle whâ—â—at the same time by the general Current of History seems too to have been at the same time in Wales Sir R. Actoâ— Mr. Brown and Beverly the preacher for so the Indictment sayes Quam pluribus Rebellibus Ignotis c. 5. A most material exception to this pretended Indictment is that therein the Kings Brothers are stiled John of Lancaster and Humphrey of Lancaster whereas in truth they then were and ever since the 13 th year of their Father Henry the 4 th had been Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester as you may read in Caxtons Chronicle now can any wise man imagine that the Kings Council if they had drawn this Indictment upon so great an Important an occasion would have been so negligent aâ— sto omit those Princes Titles and only with an unpardonable Rudeness call them John and Humphrey Credat Judaeus Apella 6. If the matter had been Treason why were not the offenders executed in such manner as in cases of Treason the Law requires but we do not find that they were Hang'd drawn and quarter'd but only Hang'd which is not the Judgment in Treason 7. As for Sir John Oldcastle himself after he was taken and brought upout of Wales which was about the year 1417. There being then a Parliament sitting the Records thereof do give this following account viz. That Sir John Oldcastle of Cowling in the County of Kent Knight being Out-lawd in the Kings-bench and being Excommunicated before by the Arch-Bishop for Haeresy was brought before the Lords and having heard his Convictions It seems the Haeresy was charg'd upon him there as well as the Outlawry answered not thereunto for his Excuse upon which it was Adjudged that he should be taken as a Traytor to the King and the Realm and carried to the Tower of London and from thence drawn through the City unto the New Gallows in St. Gileses without the old Temple Barr and there to be Hanged and burned Hanging In which Proceedings we may note 1. That he was never try'd by his Peers that is by any Jury for he was but a Commoner not a Peer of the Realm and suffered upon the Outlawry and Excomunication and therefore when we said in our last p. 123. That without any farther Tryal or Judgment he was Hang'd and Burnt we desire to be understood intended of any Legal common or ordinary Trial or Judgment according to the Course of the Laws For 2. If he were duly Out-law'd for Treason upon his being taken there was no need for carrying him before the Lords in Parliament For by the very Out-lawry he would have been Attainted and without more ado should have had Judgment in the Kings Bench as a Traytor But it may justly be suspected that the Judges of that Court perceiving what kind of practises there had been in this case declined to be so far concern'd therein and therefore Certified the Record into the Parliament which they did together with the Bishops Sentence of Excommunication filed to the Record A method very strange and unpresidented 3. 'T is observable that after all this the Lords did pass such Judgment on him as was not due to a Traitor and though it be true the Parliament might by Act have Attainted him and thereupon Ordained a special Judgment as they should have thought good yet since they did not so proceed since he was before Attainted by the Out-lawry and thereupon or else without any Colour of Law suffered I conceive their Lordships could not lawfully vary from the common Judgment of Treason 4. It is further to be noted that in the Records of the said Parliament it is added that a motion was made that the Lord Powis one of the Ancestors no doubt of that Popish Lord now in the Tower for High Treason might be thanked and Rewarded according to the Proclamation for his great pains of taking of Sir John Oldcastle Knight Haeretick But the Roll there does not mention Traitor so that it seems pretended Haeresy was his greatest indeed for ought we can perceive main and probably Except breaking Prison his only Crime Yet we are not ignorant that the Old Monks and the Modern Jesuite Parsons bring several other most false Accusations against him as that he was an Anabaptist and would have had all things in common but this Calumny seems to have no other grounds than his complaining of the superfluity of the Clergy in those timer and wishing that their abundance had been distributed to better uses nay they blush not to write Tantâ praeditur fuit dementiâ ut putaret se post tridâ—um à morte Resurrecturus He was so madd that he perswaded himself that he should Rise again the Third day as another
nor have you I hope forgot that at the same time there were actually Reigning two other Popes or Popelings viz. Gregory whom the French set up and Benedict whom the Spaniards supported and each of these had his Court and his Cardinals and Princes and Nations that own'd his Authority and obey'd him But growing weary of this ridiculous Confusion and the Emperour Sigismund having taken the pains to Travel almost all over Europe to persuade them to some expedient for healing this Schism It was at last agreed That a General Council should be call'd nor did Pope John seem much to oppose it hoping to get himself confirm'd therein by the Interest of Sigismund whom he had procured to be made Emperour and you know one good turn deserves another but whether the Emperour found him so scandalously flagitious that he was asham'd to appear in his favour or whether his solicitations could not be heard I know not so it was that in the Conclusion things fell out quite contrary to his Expectation The place agreed upon after much bandying for this Congress was Constance a City of Switzerland Situate on the Lake Bodenzee over against Lindaw Whither Anno 1414. repaired Pope John and the Emperour and a vast conflux of People for there were present 4 Patriarchs 29 Cardinals 346 Archbishops and Bishops 564 Abbots and Doctors Ten Thousand secular Princes and Noble Men 600 Barbers 320 Fiâ—lers and Merry-Andrews and to accommodate the Holy Father Four Hundred and Fifty common publick Whores besides all their private ones the whole Company of strangers Men and Women that were then at one time found in that City being Threescore Thousand and five Hundred A fine jolly Company and if you will believe them they had the Holy Ghost present with them too but there are several reasons to question that tho this merry one which follows be none of them when on the first day of opening the Council they were singing according to the mode Veni spiritus sancte c. Come holy Spirit c. Some arch wags at the same time clapp'd up a Label in the Church containing these words as an answer from Heaven Alijs rebus occupaii nunc adesse vobis non possumus We are a little busy at present about other affairs and cannot attend ye This Synod held for the space of four years and did more than a good deal of business we shall not afflict the Readers patience with a recital of all their Worshipful Canons and proceedings they that have a mind Male Collocare bonas Horas may read them in the Volumes of the Councils what is remarkable we shall not forget to acquaint you with And as a Prologue thereunto cannot omit that judicious Repartee of the Emperor Sigismund some discourse happening touching the Reformation of the Spirituaâ—y a grave old Cockscomb that had a spight against a parcel of poor Friars said Quod oporteaâ— incipere à Minoritis that they should begin first with the Minorites meaning the Order so called No quoth the Emperor Non à Minoritis sed à Majoritis not with the Minorites but with the Majorites meaning the Reformation ought first to begin with the Pope Cardinals Bishops and Superior States of the Church and so descend afterwards to regulate the inferiors The Council had not sat long before Articles were Exhibited against Pope John who fearing the worst unknown to the Cardinals in a disguise one night flies out of the City to Schaffuze where he was sheltred by the Duke of Austria for a while but the Emperor being therewith incensed he was glad to bring back the poor Run a-way Pope who was committed to safe Custody And now they proceed judicially against him Henricus de Pira and Johannes de Scribanis Procurators of the Council undertake to prove him Guiltâ— of abundance of horriâ— Crimes both before and during his Popedome the Charge against him was contained in 54 Articles of several Murders Poysonings Sacrilege Heresy Tyranny Simony Infidelity Notorious Atheism c. and in the same this most Holy Father is stiled Diabolus Incarnatus A Devil Incarnate particularly they proved That he had committed Incest with Nuns Ravisht several Virgins That he was frequently Guilty of Adultery That he had caused Pope Alexander his predecessor to be Poyson'd to make way for himself to usurp the Papacy That he had sold many Lands of the Churches Patrimony yea he had sold Churches themselves in the City of Rome Nay their very Holy Reliques as for Example he had truck'd away the Head of St. John Baptist for 50000 Ducates For my part I wonder where he found out such a silly Chapman that would offer half the Money for a forg'd Skull which had been deliver'd and carried out of the Nunnery of St. Sylvester where 't was kept if some Citizens of Rome had not discover'd it and stopt it by force for which he cast them into Prison and fined them unmercifully That he had Conferr'd Benefices and Ecclesiastical Charges upon his Bastards and meer Children not above Five years old That to fill up the measure of his wickedness by the persuasion of the Devil he obstinately said affirm'd and held an opinion That there is no Life Eternal or future Existence after this Life Yea he said and obstinately believed That the Soul of Man dyeth and is Extinct together with the humane Body after the manner of bruit Beasts and that he had said and declared That being once dead even in the last day there should be no Resurrection These and many other the like Crimes being fully proved against him and he being allow'd liberty not being able to make any tollerable defence for himself but on the contrary being Convicted by the Confession of his own mouth they proceeded to pronounce a definitive Sentence against him That he should be deposed Having first in the â— th Session passed the following Canon That a Synod Congregated in the Holy Ghost making a general Council representing the whole Catholick Church here militant hath power immediately from Christ To which power of theirs every Person of what State or Dignity soever he be even tho it be the Pope himself ought to be obedient in all such things as concern the general Reformation in the Church as well in the Heads as in the Subjects And the said Sentence being sent to John he himself our Authors say approved thereof and declared that he deserv'd it and so was Deposed after he had been a Pope 5 years and 15 days After which he was for some years kept Prisoner but at last in the time of Pope Martin the 5 th who succeeded him for a great sum of Money got not only his Liberty but also to be made a Cardinal of Tuscany and in that quality died in the year 1419. And there 's an end of quondam Pope John And now 't is time to see what our Holy Council does with the two other Imps of Infallibility As for Gregory the 12 th he
Sacrament of the Body of Christ saying that it ought to be Ministred in both kinds and that after the words of Consecration pronounc'd there still remaineth material Bread in the Sacrament 2. He doth Err as touching the Church for that he doth not allow and admit that the Church signifieth the Pope Cardinals Archbishops and Clergy but saith this signification was drawn from the Schoolmen 3. That he hath said That Tempral Princes and Lords may take away the Temporal possessions of the Church and Clergy without any offence 4. He teacheth that all Priests are of like power and therefore affirms That the reservations of the Popes Casualties the ordering of Bishops and the Consecration of the Priests were invented only for Covetousness 5. That he erreth concerning the Church forasmuch as through Contempt he doth not fear Excommunication 6. He erreth by holding That a Man being once Ordain'd a Priest or a Deacon cannot be forbidden from the Office of Preaching c. Upon these and other the like Articles the Council proceeded against him in his sickness and tho he often offer'd to defend his Cause yet they would neither allow him any Advocats nor permit him publickly to be heard And in their Ninth Session they declared Quod non obstantibus salvis Conductis Imperatoris Regum c. Possit per Judicem competentem de Haeretieâ pravitate inquiri That notwithstanding any safe Conduct granted by the Emperor or any Kings Inquisition many be made against any Man for Haeresy by a Competent Judge and process to be made according to Law To relate the whole proceedings would be too tedious how malicious and unjust his accusers were how stout and faithful to him were several Bohemian Noble Men representing his Innocence to the cruel Fathers but all in vain nothing but his Blood would satisfy and so they proceed to pass the following sentence upon him The most sacred General Council of Constance Congregated together and representing the Catholick Church for perpetual memory of the thing As truth doth witness that an evil Tree bringeth forth evil Fruit so it cometh to pass that the Man of most damnable memory John Wickliff through his pestiferous Doctrine not through Jesus Christ by the Gospel as the holy Fathers in times past have begotten faithful Children but contrary to the wholesome Faith as a venemous root hath begotten many wicked and pestilent Children whom he hath left behind him successors and followers of his perverse and accursed Doctrine against whom this Sacred Synod of Constance is forced to rise up as against Bastards and diligently with a Sharp-knife of Ecclesiastical Authority to cut up Errors out of the Lords field as most hurtful Brambles and Briars lest they should grow up to the destruction of others Forasmuch then as in the holy General Council lately celebrated at Rome it was decreed that the Doctrine of John Wickliff of most damnable memory should be Condemned and his Books burnt as Haeretical yet 〈◊〉 John Hus here personally present in this Sacred Council not the Diciple of Christ but of Wicliff an Arch Haeretick hath taught and affirmed the Articles of Wickliff which were Condenm'd by the Church of God Wherefore after diligent Deliberation and full Information this most Sacred Council declareth and determineth the Articles abovesaid which are sound in his Books wrot with his own hand and which he hath own'd not to be Catholick nor worthy to be taught but that many of them are erroneous some wicked other some to be offensive unto godly Ears many of them to be temerarious and seditious and the greater part of them to be Notoriously Haeretical and doth condemn all and every the Books which the said Hus hath wrot in what form or phrase soever they be or whether they be Translated by others and doth decree That they shall be publickly burnt in the presence of the Clergy and People c. And the said Synod doth pronounce the said John Hus an Haeretick and a Seducer and obstinate Person and such an one as doth not desire to return again to the Lapp of our holy Mother the Church neither to abjure the Errors and Heresies which he hath openly Preached and defended wherefore this most Sacred Council decreeth and declares That the said John Hus shall be deposed and degraded from his Priestly Orders and Dignity Since this sentence mentions Degrading it will not be amiss to consider the manner how that Ceremony is perform'd Which is thus The party to be degraded is attir'd in all his Priestly Vestments and holdeth in the one hand a Chalice filled with Wine mixed with Water and in the other a Guilt Paten with a Wafer Then kneeling down the Bishops Deputy taking from him these Trincats Charges him to say no more Mass for the Quick or the Dead Secondly scraping with a piece of Glass his fingers ends he Enjoyns him never to Hallow or Consecrate any thing and Thirdly rasing his shaven Crown and stripping 〈◊〉 of his Priestly Vestments he is Clothed in a Lay habit and delivered into the Power of the Secular Magistrate Thus was poor Hus serv'd and withal a Capp put on his head all painted over with Devils and this word Haerisiarcha or Ring leader of Hereticks inscribed thereon and so was burnt in the Month of July 1415. He behav'd himself at his Martyrdom with a wonderful Cheerfulness and seems to have had a Spirit of Prophecy for whereas Hus in the Bohemian Tongue signifies a Goose he told them You now roast a Goose but after a 100 years there shall a Swan rise up out of my Ashes which was fulfill'd in Luther who just 100 years after Hus's Death began to appear in opposition to the Pope Likewise during the time of this Council one Jerome a Learned Godly Man of the City of Prague hearing of the manyfold injuries done unto Hus voluntarily came to Constance with an intent to defend his Cause but not being able to procure any safe Conduct there was returning back again to his own Country but taken on the Road and brought bound into Constance and there by the Council Condemn'd and Burnt and his Ashes thrown into the River Rhyne as Hus's likewise had been so Industrious were the Romish Clergy to destroy all Memorials of these faithful Servants of God whose Names do yet survive all their impotent malice and remain Registred in the Book of Life in Heaven and pretious to all good Men on Earth What esteem the godly Nobles of that Age had of Mr. Hus may partly appear by a Letter of 54 Noble Men of Morauia under their Hands and Seals to the said Council THE COURANT. Tory. PRethee are Miracles ceas'd No no There 's a New Saint lately come over call'd Cess Process that does daily Wonders Dam Ignoramus is an Ass to her Tory. What kind of Feats does she Profess can she sham Godfryes Murder and Esquire Thin's and make the World believe That they both kill'd themselves or that it was done Justly
to restore them Tolletus the Jesuit in his Instructions for Priests on the Title Excommunication Non tenentur reddere rem verbis contractam They are not bound to make good Contracts with Hereticks Nay the Gloss of their Canon Law in Gratian Caus 15. q. 6. not only justifies the thing but also assigns the reason of it Si Juravi me soluturum alicui pecuniam c. If I have sworn to pay a man Money and he happen to be Excommunicated I am not bound to pay it because we ought by all the means we can to vex ill men that they may repent of their Evil. Very pretty Popish Divinity Cardinal Allen resolves Pater qui filium habet Haereticum c. A Father that has a Son that is an Heretick is bound to disinherit him and Parents sin mortally that bestow their Daughters in marriage to Hereticks And of this too the Gloss of Gratian Decret l. 5. Caus 23. q. 8. gives the reason Because Hereticks are not to be esteem'd our Brothers or Kindred but tho he be the Son of thy Mother or thine own only Child yet according to the Law of old Thy hand must be upon him that thou mayest put him to death According to these Maxims 't is notorious that the Apostate Church of Rome and Papists have acted how often have Popes put Princes upon the breaking of their Treaties Alliances and Covenants How remarkable is that Story of Vladislaus the fifth King of Hungary about the year 1440. who having concluded a Peace with Amurath Emperour of the Turks for ten years space and sworn to keep and observe the same inviolably Eugenius the Fourth who at that time was Pope of Rome hearing thereof writes to Cardinal Julian then resident in Hungary to persuade the King to break that Peace alledging and declaring That no Peace made with the Enemies of Religion and in their esteem Protestants are worse than Turks without first consulting the Pope and having his leave was good or valid And therefore commanded the King to fall into Hostility assuring him That as for his Oath given at the Treaty he had dissolv'd the same Hereupon the King partly by Intreaties and partly by Threats is prevail'd upon to become a most perfidious wretch and to the dishonour of the Christian name treacherously to fall upon the Turk at unawares which Amurath observing and seeing his Forces like to be discomfited he draws forth the Original Articles of their League and looking up to Heaven cries out Haec sunt Jesu Christe Foedera quae Christiani tui mecum percussêre per nomen tuum Sanctè Jurantes Nunc si Deus es tuas measque Injurias te quaeso ulciscere Bonfin l. 3. Aenaeas Sylvius afterwards Pope â—p 81. Spondanus ad Ann. 1444. Behold O Jesus these are the Covenants which thy Christians solemnly swearing by thy name made with me now therefore if thou art a God revenge these Injuries to me and thy self upon their perfidious heads And no sooner had he pronounc'd these words but the success of the Battel was chang'd the Christians put to flight and the perjured King together with the wretched Cardinal that put him upon 't being both slain Pope Innocent the Third in the year 1213. in a Letter to Peter King of Arragon charges him in the name of the Holy-Ghost and as he expected ever to obtain Divine and Apostolical Grace to abandon the people of Tholose certain honest Waldensian Christians of whom in our Third Volume we have given an account nor to afford them any Aid or Countenance as long as they continued in their Heresie Non obstante promissione vel obligation quacúnque praestitâ Notwithstanding any promise or obligation whatsoever before pass'd to the contrary In the Year 1538. Paul the Third sends abroad a Roaring Bull against our King Henry the 8 th wherein he admonishes and requires all Christian Princes That they shall not under pretence of any Leagues or Obligations although corroborated by frequently repeated Oathes yield the said King directly or indirectly any Aid Favour or Assistance and to take them off from any apprehensions of their Duty pretends to Absolve them all from all Oathes or Obligations by them made or to be made and pronounces them to be void and of none effect So likewise Pope Pius Quintus Absolv'd not only all the Subjects of Queen Elizabeth but also Caeteros omnes qui Illi quomodocunque Juraverunt All others who in any manner had sworn unto her After Henry the Third of France was Barbarously Murder'd by Frier Clement all the World knew the Right of the Crown by Lineal Succession and Proximity of Blood belong'd to Henry of Burbon but the Popish Doctors of the Sorbon being intreated by the People of Paris to give their Judgment whether it were Lawful to submit to him They answered That Catholicks by the Divine Law were forbidden to admit to the Kingdom a Sectary and manifest Enemy to the Church That all that should Assist him were guilty of mortal Sin and would infallibly be Damn'd And all that did Resist him unto Blood would dye Martyrs and enjoy an Everlasting Reward in Heaven But to prove That Popish Princes who have made never so fair Promises did notwithstanding Persecute their Protestant Subjects with the greatest Rigour and act quite contrary to those Solemn Engagements our Native Island affords a sad and never to be forgotten Precedent for when the Men of Suffolk upon the pious King Edwards Death requested that bloody bigotted and treacherous Queen Mary to know Whether she would alter the Religion Establish'd in her Brothers days She assur'd them with all Asseverations That she would never make any Innovation or Change but be contented with the private Exercise of her own Religion And on April the 12 th she made a Publick Declaration in Council That although her own Conscience were fixed in matters of Religion yet she would never Inforce her Subjects otherwise than God should put into their Hearts a persuasion of the Truth she was in But no sooner was she settled in her Throne but slighting all these Engagements she no less perfidiously than cruelly fell to Burning her Protestant Subjects purely for their Religion Nay do we not at this Instant see the like Proceedings in our next Neighbouring Country where notwithstanding many Edicts and Solemn Promises Ratified with all the formalities of Perpetual Laws yet the poor Protestants directly contrary to all these Priviledges without any colour or shadow of Crime save only their Religion wherein their Persecutors deal much more Generously than if with fained Accusations and damnable Subornations they should falsly represent them as Rebellious and Disloyal are daily harass'd Ruinated and undone Therefore the General Inference from these Premises is That knowing so well the Principles and Practises of the Romish Church no Protestants or men of sense should ever trust to any though never so plausible Promises of any person of that Communion For with such all the
some of the Inferiour Clergy may take him for Guide the Inns of Court scorn to be his Pupils for all he stiles himself Observ Numb 84. Roger L'Estrange of Grays-Inn Labourer The Man is as much out in his Law as he uses to be in his Divinity For tho God forbid any should be so wicked to imagin the Death of a collateral presumptive Heir to the Crown is not Treason by this Statute Coke 3 Instit fol. 8 9. speaking of the same words Before this Statute some did hold that to compass the Death of any of the King's Children was Treason but by this Act it is restrained to the Prince the King's Son being Heir apparent If the Heir apparent to the Crown be a collateral Heir apparent he is not within this Statute Roger Mortimer Earl of March was Anno Dom. 1487. 11 Rich. 2. proclaimed Heir apparent Anno 39 H. 6. Richard Duke of York was likewise proclaimed Heir apparent and so was John de la Poole Earl of Lincoln by R. 3. and Henry Marquess of Exeter by King H. 8. But none of these or the like are within the purvieu of of this Statute But since Roger will be dabbling with Statutes prethee read to him the following Clause of the Act of the 3d of King James c. 4. And further be it enacted That if any person or persons at any time after the tenth of June c. shall either upon the Seas or beyond the Seas or in any other place within the Dominions of the King's Majesty his Heirs or Successors put in practice to absolve persuade or withdraw any of the King's Subjects or to reconcile them to the Pope or See of Rome or if any person shall be wilfully absolv'd or withdrawn as aforesaid or willingly reconciled or promise obedience to any such pretended Authority every such person and persons their procurers and counsellors aiders and maintainers shall be to all intents adjudged Traitors and shall have judgment suffer and forfeit as in Cases of High Treason From whence 't is plain that every English Subject that has bin brought up in the Protestant Religion and afterwards revolts and turns Papist and so is reconcil'd to the See of Rome is ipso facto guilty of High Treason Printed for Langley Curtis 1682 The Weekly Pacquet OF Advice from Rome OR The History of POPERY The Fourth Volume FRIDAY May 12. 1682. Nunquam satis dicitur quod nunquam satis discitur Popery is a kind of Atheism proved in many particulars OUr Two last have contain'd some Arguments proving the Church of Rome not to be a true visible Church of Christ which will further appear if we can Demonstrate the same to be Guilty of the horrid sin of Atheism To know whether she be or no we must distinguish the several kinds of Atheism Atheisme is Two-fold Open and Colour'd Open-Atheisme is when men both in Word and Deed deny God and his Word Colour'd Atheisme is not so manifest and hath two Degrees 1. When men acknowledge a God a First Cause of Causes or Infinite Being that made and Governs the World but yet deny or are Ignorant of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Thus the Ephesians before they Believed the Gospel are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eph. 2. 12. and said to be without God when yet no doubt in their natural Judgment they acknowledged because they deny'd Christ And in like manner though the Samaritans Worshipped the God of Abraham yet our Blessed Saviour saith They Worshipped they knew not what John 5. 46. And the Psalmist saith of all the Gentiles that their Gods are Idols The second Degree of this Colour'd Atheism is when men do rightly acknowledge the Unity of the Godhead in the Trinity of Persons yet so as by necessary Consequences partly of their Doctrine and partly of the Service of God they overturn that which they well maintained And in this Respect I say That the very Religion of the Church of Rome is a kind of Atheism 'T is true every Papist is not so shameless as one of their Popes who shewing some of his Confidents his Vast Treasures Hellishly said Quantas divitias nobis peperit haec Fabula Christi What a world of Riches has this Fable of Christ brought us in Yet the very Doctrines of their Church if understood and believed directly tends to lead all those of her Communion to the like or as desperate Impiety For 1. Whereas the Church of Rome maketh the Merit of the works of men to Concur with the Grace of God it overthrows the Grace of God If it be of works it is no more Grace Rom. 11. 6. whereas in words they own those glorious Attributes the Justice and Mercy of God to be Infinite do they not by Consequents deny both For how can that be Infinite Justice which may any way be appeased by humane satisfaction And how is God's Mercy Infinite when we by our own satisfactions must add a supply to the satisfaction of Christ 2. He that hath not the Son hath not the Father John 21. 23. and consequently is an Atheist Now the present Roman Religion hath not the Son that is Jesus Christ God and Man the Mediator of Mankind but hath transformed him into a feigned Christ For instead of one Jesus Christ in all things like unto us in his Humanity Sin only excepted They have framed a Christ to whom they Ascribe two kinds of Existing one Natural whereby he is visible touchable and Circumscribed in Heaven The other not only above but also against Nature by which he is substantially according to his Flesh in the hands of every Priest in every Host and in the mouth of every Communicant invisible untouchable and uncircumscribed and thus in effect they abolish his Man-hood 3. They Degrade our blessed Lord of his Offices and have Committed High Treason against the King of Glory and will you contend that such Arch Traitours are still true Subjects For one Jesus Christ the only King Lawgiver and Head of the Church They joyn unto him the Pope not only as a Vicar but also as a Companion or Equal in Government In that they give unto him power to make Laws binding Conscience To resolve and determine infallibly the sense of Holy Scripture c. For one Jesus Christ the only real Priest of the New Testament they joyn many Secondary Priests who pretend to offer Christ daily in the Mass for the Sins of the Quick and the Dead For one Jesus Christ the All sufficient Mediator of Intercession They have added many other Companions to Intercede for us And for the only Merits of Christ in whom alone the Father is well pleased they have devised a Treasury of the Church containing besides the merits of Christ the Over plus of the merits of Saints to be dispensed to men at the Popes discretion By all which we see That Christ and consequently God himself to be worshipped in Christ is changed for a Fantasie or Idol of mans
with a people called the Triballi unhappyly makes a League with Amurath the Third Emperour of the Turks and consents to admit Threescore Thousand of Amurath's Forces into Europe which were wafted over by the Genoese Gallies and establisht their Metropolitan seat at Adrianople in Thrace They had not long been entertain'd but according to the usual course of Forraign Auxiliaries instead of assisting they were for driving out or subdueing those that Invited them thither and being now by continual new Accessions of Numbers and fortunate successes grown formidable to Constantinople it self which they already threatned and in very few years after actually made themselves Masters of the poor Grecians being in this distress their Emperour made Application to other Christian Princes for succour and especially to the Pope as a Mâ—ster wheel in that affair But his crafty Holiness who never does a Courtesy Grâ—tis hoping to make an advantage of their necessity tells them he is willing to procure them Assistance but they hold several Heterodox tenets as denying Purgatory maintaining there must be Leaven for the Bread for the Sacrament and especially denying Peters Primacy and not submitting to him as supream Universal Bishop and if they would reform themselves in these matters they need not doubt of aid and for their satisfaction he would call a General Council where the several points should be fairly debated c. The Emperour being thus straitned consents thereunto and brings with him Jâ—sâ—ph the Patriarch of Constantinople and a great train of his Bishops transported by the Gallieâ— of the Venetians the Countrymen of Eugenius The Formalities of Greeting between this Western Pope and Eastern Patriarch are very remarkable which I shall give you from the Original Acts of the Council of Florence written in Greek by some of the Attendants of the Constantinopolitan Bishop 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. In the Morning before the first hour of the day we saw Caristinus come running to us sent from the Emperour who acquainted the Patriarch that the Pope expected that his Great Holiness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for you must note the Patriarch assum'd the title of his Holiness as well as the Pope should go to him and adore him and kiss his feet and the Emperour had already insisted and contended three days that the same might be waved but-could not obtain it of which in the mean time he thought fit to Advertise your Great Holiness that you may know in what manner you must approach him This was irksome news to the Patriarch who expected to be received in a far different way and with greater marks of Affection and esteem For whilst he was at Venice he had thus declared himself to one of his Domestick Favourites discoursing about the Pope I have determined with my self that if the Pope be a person of more years than I then I will esteem him as a Father if of equal years I will carry my self towards him as a Brother but if he be younger than I then I will regard him but as my Son And my mind is that if there be any meet Pallace neer to his that hath a private passage from one into the other I will take it up for my Quarters that I may privately go to him and he likewise to me again c. thereby to void priority of visits and Ceremony wherefore when now he heard talk of Kissing his Feet he was astonisht however he proceeded and we came when the Courts were all ready full to Ferraria and staid right against the Castle near the Bridge and before noon there came six Bishops in the Popes behalf to Congratulate the Patriarch who told them That he owed not the Pope any such Salutation as Kissing his Feet but for as much said he we be Brethren let us Embrace and Kiss each other in Brotherly manner else I will do nothing The Patriarch also had other Speeches concerning that matter unto which they made answer and the Patriarch advis'd with all the Bishops that came with him about this weighty affair who all Nemine Contradicente Voted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That the same The Toe Kissing was neither Just nor seemly nor profitable to be done But the Popes Bishops return again in the morning and with repeated instances press the Kissing of the feet to which the Patriarch answers from whence hath the Pope that Right shew us what Synod hath bestowed it upon him or where is it written especially since the Pope calleth himself the Successor of St. Peter Then the Bishops told him that it was an antient Custome of the Pope that all persons salute him in that manner Bishops Kings the Emperour of Germany himself and the Cardinals who are greater than the Emperour here 's Divinity for you in as much as they are persons Consecrated Whereunto the Patriarch reply'd That this was a new Invention I will not quoth he assent unto it I will never do it but if the Pope be pleased that I salute him Brotherly according to our antient manner in that sort I will go unto him but if he refuse that I will have nothing to do with him but will return back again Thus far the said Greek Synod You see he was very resolute and here was a long Voyage like to be spoil'd and come to nothing but at last an Expedient was found out viz. That whereas the Pope thought to have made the Patriarch kiss his Feet in a full Assembly publiquely he was forc'd to receive him and take that Homage in his Privy Chamber the Cardinals only being present But then a new difficulty arose about the order of sitting in Council who should have the uppermost place the Pope contended that the Grecian Emperour and Patriarch with the Orientals should sit on the left side the Church and the Western Bishops on the right hand and himself at the higher end of all in the middle as head of them all in a more eminent Seat The Emperour on the contrary pretended the place belonged to him At last it was ngreed the Western people should sit on the right hand the Eastern ones on the left Pope Eugenius's Throne placed by the High Altar the Roman Emperours though absent in the next place but some degrees lower and equal with him the Cardinals The Emperour of Greece had his Throne set right against the Popes and on his left hand but a little lower sat the Pâ—tâ— of Constantinople and equal with him were the seats of the Legates of the Three other Eastern Patriarchs and of the Archbishops and Prelates Ordine quisque suo Being thus at last seated the 4 principal Controversies debated between them were 1. Touching the procession of the Holy Ghost the Greeks not acknowledging that he proceeded from the Son but only from the Father and therefore charged the Laâ—ines that they had added the word Filioque and from the Son to the Creed 2. About the Bread used for the Sacrament The Greeks contending that it ought to
be Leavened the Romanists that it must be unleavened 3. About Purgatory which the Greeks denyed and the last tho principally intended about the Popes Primacy and being supream head of the universal Church which they would not acknowledge These points were argued strongly on both sides in the said Council 〈◊〉 so they have been also in Books I my self have now by me a Catalogne of 19 Learned Greek Authors who have wrote against the Latine Church But the most prevalent reasons 't is supposed that sway'd with the Greeks were the necessity of the Empire and the hopes of the Forces to assist them together with the Popes Artifice in making Two of the most Learned of the Greek Bishops Cardinals viz Isidore Bishop of Russia and Bessarion Bishop of Nicea winning them to favour his pretensions in fine an Instrument of union is mutually concluded upon in the year 1439. beginning Laetentur Coeli Let the Heavens Rejoice c. Whereby the procession from both Father and Son was acknowledged and that the Sacrament may be indifferently Celebrated with Bread Leaven'd or Unleaven'd That the Souls of the Faithfull that have not fully satisfied for their Sins do go to Purgatory and that the Pope is head and Sovereign over the whole Church But Michael Bishop of Ephesus with others stoutly withstood the same especially the two last Articles And Joseph Patriarch of Constanâ—â—nople immediately after his Subscription died suddenly falling down with the Charter of Union in his hand Pope Eugenius would have had the Greeks proceed to chuse another Patriarch promissing to ordain him without Mony no small kindness I 'le promise you from a Pope But they perceiving what the Old Fox would be at viz. That as he had got his Supremacy acknowledged under their hands so he might enter into actual possession thereof and begin to Exercise it over their new Patriarch refused the same alledging by their Laws and Customes that their Patriarch could not be chosen any where else but at Constartinople for he must be Consecrated in his own Church c. Whereupon the Pope much against his Inclinations takes his leave of them and suffers them to depart But no sooner were these Prelates returned home and given an account of their proceedings but they were Rejected by their Churches and Brethren as having Betray'd them into unjust slavery to the Bishops of Rome which they would by no means submit to â—ay so offended they were that they Excommunicated all those that consented to the aforesaid Union and when they died cast them like dogs into ditches denying them the Honour of Christian Burial And so they and their posterity stand out in opposition to the Church of Rome to this day but by reason of the oppression they live under are very Ignorant and as the natural Consequent thereof superstitious admirers of their own Rites and Ceremonies I my self have convers'd with some of their Priests whose Beards and long hair for they are as stiff for that as Popish Priestâ— are for Shaven Crowns were the main Testimonies of Learning or Theology they could produce Latine few of them understand for they have not Schools for it nor are they Criticks in the true antient Greek for the Language is now no less degenerared than the people yet there are here and there some few Indifferently well Learned amongst them The Fathers they most adhere to and Reverence are Chrysostome Basil and the Two Gregories the one surnamed Nissene and the other Nazianzen Their Liturgy is ordinarily that of St. Chrysostome but on Festival days they use that of St. Basil which being both written in the antient or Learned Greek cannot much more edifie their vulgar than Latine Service doth our illiterate Papists Not long after this Congress at Ferrara viz. in the Raign of Constantine Son of the said Emperour John Paloeologus the City of Constantinople was subdued by the Turks Mahomet the Great Investing it by Sea and Land with an Army of Five Hundred Thousand and after 54 days Seige storm'd and masterd it on the 29 th of May 1453. Murdering young and old and Commâ—â—ting all kind of Cruelty and Barbarity and in the Turks hands it has ever since remain'd being now the Metropolis of the Ottoman Empire Some that are much at leasure have observ'd it as I know not what fatality that as this City was first made famous by a Constantine the Son of an Helena a Gregory being also Patriarch so it was lost by a Constantine as Augustus was the first that the Son of Helona Gregory being also Patriarch establisht the Roman Empire and Augustus the last But I think the base humour of the Citizens is much more to be taken notice of who when their Religion Lives Liberties Estates posterity and all were thus at stake and though they were exceeding Rich were yet such sordid Misers that they would not part with any money to pay the Soldiers that were to defend them but chuse rather to hide it in the Earth and so hastned their own Ruine by discouraging the Soldiers and deservedlâ— lost both their adored muck and their more useless Lives and their posterity remain the most miserable slaves in the Word to this day The COURANT. Tory. VVHat does this Pacquetting fool mean by this old known story of the City of Constantinoples sordid niggardly Couardise If they had a fancy to bury their Gold and their Consciences and save their pence in Coffers and dunghills for the enemy rather than expend them for their publique safety and so become both slaves and Beggars what 's that to us Truem. Nothing that I know of but Aliena pericula Cautos for there may have been folks in the World since 1453 or at least may be hereafter who when their Religion Lives just antient priviledges c. may be as much at hazard as those of the Constantinopolitans were and from a people altogether as Ill principled and no less savage than the Mahumetans may yet be so far from breaking a Bagg to prevent the impending ruine that they shall scarce stir a foot nor bestow a little Breath and Sweat not so much as hold up an hand nor speak a seasonable word in defence of undermined Religion and Invaded Liberty Tory. Well! I 'le say that for our folks we spare for no pains nor Cost To undoe our selves and our Neighbours How many Cabals Tavern Conventicles private Treats c. have we had of late There 's Loyal Nat scribles on at the old impudent rate as if he defy'd all Justice and Courted Preferment from the Pillory to the Gallows and then the Indefatigable Observator fills the Bog-houses in Town with Antipendiums flams shams and Forty ones that old wretch were he not well paid for 't would live a Dogs life amongst them for the Whigs have had a Company of plaguy Books out of late there 's the unanswerable Julian The Roguish History of Whiggism the Samaritan and I know not what all Truem. Yes and the third
defiance to their Indentures for breach of which the Law and prudent necessary Custom of the City has awarded Little-Ease and Bridewell they shall dare be Scaperloytering to a right Honourable Feast Nor is it any answer to say they do it to shew their Loyalty for that 's demonstrated in being obedient to the Law and their Masters not in Drinking Healths Swearing roaring and Huzza-ing Tory. Well for all your slighting of Health-drinking I conceive it a most necessary thing in these times for you see what Loyal Nat-Pillory Thomson saith last Saturday how one Saunders a supposed Whigg being Indicted at Hereford Assizes the Court gravely put it to him whether he used to Drink the King and the Dukes Health who answer'd He could Eat the Kings as well as any man in England but it seems had a great Fine laid upon him Truem I verily believe this another of his impudent Scandals on the Government and doubt not but the worthy persons concern'd will vindicate themselves from his Libel for can it be Imagin'd that any of the sage Judges would so far forget themselves their Dignity and Gravity as to ask such a pitifull ridiculous question is Health Drinking an Hellish Custome condemn'd by the Law of God Habakkuk 2. 15. and Mortaâ—ity and his Majesties Proclamation now become the Shibholeth of Loyalâ— Tory. Well well I 'm sure they are all Whiggs and Phanaticks and Traitors that wont Drink the â—ukes Health for the Kings of late is somewhat out of fashion but prethe tell us what is that place in Habakkuk for I do not oft trouble my head with the Bible Truem. The words are these Wo unto him that giveth his Neighbour Drink that puttest thy Bottle to him and makest him Drunk also that thou may'st look on their Nakedness thou art filâ—ed with shame for Glory the Cup of the Lords right hand shall be turned unto thee aud shamefull Spewing shall be thy own Glory Printed for Langley Curtis 1682. The Weekly Pacquet OF Advice from Rome OR The History of POPERY The Fourth Volume FRIDAY August 18. 1682. Dubium nullum est iis quos spiritus Christi tangit quin sciant sese Offerre summum gratissimum Laudis sacrificium quicquid contra hanc Cruentam Blasphemam Sacrilegam Meritricem Diaboli legere dicere scribere possunt Luther in Epist ante R. Barius M. De vitis pontificum Pope Alexander Poison'd by a mistake with Wine prepared to Poison a Cardinal Thirty Thousand years pardon granted Julius the second a Tory-Pope flings St. Peters Keys into Tybur Pope Leo the X. sends out extravagant Indulgences which Luther opposes and so we are brought to the beginning of the Reformation THe Pope was so far from punishing his base begotten Caesar Borgia for murdering his Brother mention'd in our last that he not winked at it but resolves still to advance him to Riches and Honour in order to which the said Caesar flung off his Cardinals Robes and openly delar'd he would be no longer a Priest but a man of Warr then he married Charlotte nearly related to the French King who was willing to bestow her on him because he had a mind to change his Bedfellow and concluded by sweetening the Pope by this match to obtain a Divorce Caesar being return'd into Italy designs the ruine of all the Governours or Lieutenants of the Cities of Romania and to take the Government and profits all to himself for effecting which there was no kind of Treachery or Cruelty which he left unpractised Stabbing some Poisoning others and Strangling diverse whilst the Father striving as it were to exceed the Son in wickedness was playing the same Game with the Cardinalls and chief Barons of the City insomuch that Volateran and Guiccardine are weary with relating their Barbarities and the politick Florentine Nick Matchiavil when he would give the World the Character or true figure of a Tyrant does it in the person of this Caesar Borgia as Zenophon describes an excellent Prince in the name of Cyrus Amongst other devises both Father and Son were exquisite Practioners in Poyson and had thereby taken off several of the Richest Cardinals But Non Lex est Justior ulla Quam Necis Artifices Arte perire sua 'T is Just such witty Engineers of Death By their own Arts should lose their hated Breath The manner of this Popes death both Onuphrius Volateran and Guiccardine relate as followeth He Supping one night in a Vineyard near the Vatican to enjoy the coolness of the Air was suddenly carried desperately sick into the Pallace and the next morning he died black swoln and beyond all credit deform'd which happened as it is credibly reported by Poyson in this manner Caesar Borgia his Son Duke of Valentia had resolv'd to Poison Adrian Cardinal of Corvoto in whose Vineyard they were to Sup that Night he sent before certain Bottles of Wine which he caused to be delivered to a Servant of his with a strict charge that no body should tast or touch it it happen'd before Supper time the Pope came and being very hot and thirsty called for Wine and because his Supper was not yet brought from the Pallace the fellow thinking this to be some more excellent sort of Wine than usual willing to gratify his Holinesses Pallate gave him some of it and just as the Father was drinking in came the Son and not imagining it to be of the Wine he had so prepared drank of it too but he being young and using present Remedies escaped with his Life but not without great Languishment which incapacited him for Actions for the future This Pope had Raign'd or rather Rag'd 11 years and the people were so pleas'd they were rid of him that Guiccardine tells us Multitudes ran from all parts of the City to glut their eyes if they could with the dead Carcase of this Serpant who with such unbridled Ambition perfidious Treachery horrible Cruelty monstrous Luxury Insatitae Avarice and selling without difference or respect all things holy and profane had Infected the whole World Nor does Onuphrius the Popes own Historiographer give him a better Character His Treachery says he was more than punical his Cruelty Barbarous his Covetousness and Extortion unmeasurable his desire to enrich his Children whether by Right or by wrong unsatiable He was strangely given to Women by whom he had four Sons and two Daughters His principal Where was Vanoccia a Roman whom for her Beauty rare meen pleasant wit and Eloquence in the time of his meaner Fortunes he liv'd with after the manner of a Wife Now was not this a rare fellow to be Christs Viccar Peters Successor Head of the Church Infallible c. Yet this was the pretious Pope who in the year 1494. Publisht with his own mouth a pardon for Thirty Thousand years to as many as would say a certain Prayer before the Image of St. Anne the Mother of the blessed Virgin Beginning Benedicta sit Sancta Anna Mater tua ex