the Name of Iesus or Christ through the whole work and the reason one gave was that they were not Latin words he puts the Sibylls works in the blessed Virgins hands and making no use of Esay or David he makes use of pagan prophets to prove the coming of Christ. But to leave these santastiques I will now be more serious and pry a little into the Canon-law which hath such a vogue in Italy It makes the Crown a slave to the Miter and the scepter to the crosier and the Emperours throne to the Popes chair Nay it lessens and distracts the allegeance of the subject to his natural rightfull prince For it is the concordant opinion of all the Canonists Imperij vasallos criminis Rebellionis Majestatis haud esse reos si pro Pontifice Romano adversus Imperatorem ipsum pugnent The vassalls of the Empire cannot be guilty of the crime of Rebellion if they take armes for the Roman Bishop against the Emperour And Bartolus himself who by Schurfius is called Magister veritatis the Master of truth by Menochius Iurisconsultorum signifer the standard-bearer of Reason by Natta Excellentissimus Doctor by others the Lantern of the Law the Guide of the Blind the Mirroir and Father of verity holding that his works are worthy to be bound with the Sacred Code averres the same in favour of the Pope though he poorely excuseth it that he held these tenets when he was engaged in the Roman Court. Moreover these Canonists are not only content to give his Holines the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven but also of the Kingdoms of Spain of Great Britain of France and indeed of all the Kingdoms upon earth There are some think there are Kingdoms likewise in the Air and he may as well pretend a power paramount over them also But let us see how the Pope came to this transcendency to this cumble and height of greatnes His first rise was when Constantin gave him Rome and it was a notable rise yet all others the Canonists excepted do question the validity of this donation and Aeneas Sylvius himself did so before he was Pope for said he Callidè id provisum a Pontifice It was cautiously provided by the Bishop of Rome that this should be alwayes under controversy whether that donation of Constantine was valid or not valid that such a donation might be presumed still to have been so the Popes are not much displeased that another question should be still litigated and that the Schools should ring with the debate Whether that power which the Bishop of Rome hath over Princes in temporalibus be directly or indirectly for the stating of the question it self presupposeth that he hath a power But many Princes not only those who have quite shaken off his yoke but others who still adhere to Rome have quite freed themselves of this servitude France did it long since in the clash that happen'd 'twixt Philip le bell and Boniface the eighth claiming a jurisdiction in Gallia over Temporals but the King wrote to him in these tart words Que ta tres-grande sottise scache Let thy great foolishnes know that in Temporals we are subject to none but to God himself and they who think otherwise are sots And Monsieur Nogaret going afterwards to Rome in quality of Ambassador and using some bold termes at his Audience the Pope upbraided him that his Father had been burnt for a Heretique thereupon Nogaret tooke him with a Gantlet which hee had on his hand such a cuffe under the eare that fell'd him It is memorable also in what termes the Greek Churches writ to Iohn the third who demanding plenitude of power over the Church universall sent him word Potentiam tuam summam circa tuos subditos firmiter credimus superbiam tuam summam tollerare non possumus avaritiam satiare non valemus Diabolus tecum Dominus nobiscum We firmely beleeve thy supreme power over thy own subjects but we cannot endure thy pride nor are we able to satiate thy covetousnesse The Devill be with thee and God with us It was an odde farewell Nor of late years touching the right to the Crown of Portugal would Philip the second though extremely devoted to the See of Rome stand to the decision of the Pope after the death of Henry of whom it is very memorable that he died the Moon being in an Eclipse and the very same day and hour that he had been born 68 years before No King Philip thought that the Sword was fittest to be Umpire in that business which he made accordingly Of such an opinion was Paul the third also for maintainance of his power for he was us'd to laugh at those who would make use of arguments to maintain the Pontifical power no he was us'd to say It is not the Word only but the Sword which must defend that good Garrisons Castles and Bastions must do it as well as Excomunications and Buls The Venetians of late years gave a shrewd wound to the Papal power through the sides of Paul the fifth when he had threatned them with spiritual Armes Nicolao Pontano the Doge or Duke a man of a free soul answered the Nuncio That if Rome would dart her thunderbolts so rashly verendum esse ne qui Graeci olim fuissent è Latio in Graeciam migrâssent it was to be feared that they who were Greeks of old might goe again from Italy to Greece meaning to the Greek Church In this quarrel the Pope had recourse to Spain for to appear in it and thereupon did much complement with the Duke of Lerma but a little under the dignity of a Pope He termed him Basin Hispanicae coronae super qua acquiescat Monarchia Catholica unicum Ecclesiae fundamentum He writ that Lerma was the support of the Spanish Crown upon which the Catholique Monarchy did rest the onely prop of the Church In the year 1337. Lodovicus Bavarus being Emperour there happen'd some contrasts 'twixt the Emperour and the Pope who alledged that the Electors made him King onely but he made him Emperour Hereupon at a solemn Diet this notable Sanction was enacted Sacrosanctum Imperium summa in terris potestas coeleste donum est Imperator enim primus ante omnes secundus post Deum est per quem leges jura regna humanae genti largitur aeterna Majestas tam grande nomen à solo Deo traditur cui soli me Reipub administrandae rationē reddendam habet A curiatis igitur Heptarchis rebus impositus continuò more Majorum atque jure gentium Rex est vocatur ipsum contra majestatem Reipub. decus Imperii legatos ad sacerdotem Romanum ut Author fiat copiam administrandi concedat mittere eidem jurejurando fidem astringere atque petere ab ipso usum regii diadematis Religio est Nullum harum rerum sus omnino est pastori qui servus ovium est in consecrando domino gregi servit quippe
ultra Herculeas inscribas Drake columnas Et Magno dicas Hercule Maior Ego I passe now to Dorsetshire which Province were it commendable for no other benefit as it is for many yet Biertport doth make it singular for the great plenty of Hemp which growes there whereof Cable and Ropes for shipping are made But Somersetshire what a beautiful blessed County it is wherein the City of Bristol shines as a jewel in the bosse of a ring for indeede that City affords plenty of Diamonds a great Merchantile Town situate upon the Avon who not farre off disgorgeth her selfe into the Severn In the craggy Rocks of this Avon Diamonds are cut out in that plenty that they are carried away by pecks full and on the other side there is an extraordinary hard kind of flintstones found which are fetch'd for other Countries Wiltshire is famous for the martial courage of her Children who in times pass'd did represse the fury and stop the progresse of the Danes that they should passe no further Southward that way There Warder Castle stands made famous by the Noble Baron Iohn Arundel who receives his Title of honor from it for having perform'd such noble exploits against the sworn Enemy of Christendom the Great Turk for which the Emperor Rodulphus did put a deserved mark of honor upon him by making him a Count of the Empire and the merit of the cause is thus mentioned in his Patent Quod fortiter strenuè se gessisset in apert is praeliis in Civitatum Castrorum oppugnationibus spectato fortitudinis exemplo in expugnatione oppidi aquatici juxta Strigonium vexillum Turcis sua manu eripuit Ipsum omnesque singulos liberos haeredes posteros descendentes legitimos vtriusque sexus natos aeternaque serie nascituros veros sacri Imperii Comites Comitissas Creavimus fecimus nominavimus tituloque honore dignitate comitatus Imperialis auximus insignivimus Because the foresaid Iohn Arundel had comported him magnanimously and stoutly in open field-fights as also in the oppugnation and beleagrings of Cities and Castles and for that notable example of fortitude in storming and subduing a Town hard by Strigonium in Hungary where he tooke with his own hand the Turkes colours We therefore have created made and nominated the said Iohn Arundel himself and all and every of his Children Heirs and Posterity of both sexes lawfully descended or shall by eternal propogation issue thence to be Counts and Countesses of the sacred Empire and do dignifie and adorn them with honor and title accordingly Hampshire is remarkable for many things specially for the pretty Port Town Southhampton where King Canutus the Dane did a memorable Act for one day having many Parasits and Temporizers about him who did magnifie his Power and in a manner Idolize by calling him Great Monarch of Land of Sea and men The King listning unto them with silence upon the Sea-shore caus'd his Chair of state to be brought thither wherein being sate in Majesty upon the Sands it being flowing water he made a speech unto the Sea saying Tu meae ditionis es Terra in qua sedeo mea est nec fuit qui meo resisteret Imperio Impero igitur tibi ne in Terram meam ascendas nec vestes nec membra Dominatoris tui madefacias Mare verò de more conscendens Pedes Regis sine reverentia madefecit Ille igitur resiliens ait sciant omnes habitantes Orbem vanam frivolam esse Regum potentiam nec Regis quempiam nomine dignum praeter eum cujus nutui Caelum Terram Mare legibus obediunt aeternis nec unquam postea coronam sibi imposuit O Sea thou belongst to my dominions and the Earth whereon I sit is mine nor hath there any yet resisted my commands unpunished I command thee therefore that thou come not up to my ground nor presume to wet the Vest members of thy Lord. But the Sea still rising began to bespatter and wet the Kings feet which making him recoyl backward He said again Know yee all the Inhabitants of the Earth that the power of Kings is vaine and frivolous and none deserves the name of a King but he at whose nod Heaven Earth and Sea obey his eternal Lawes So Canutus would never wear the Crown again Odia must not be pass'd over with silence proud for a Royal Palace where David the Scots King pass'd some part of his Captivity Thirteen English defended this place against Lewis of France most couragiously for 15. daies How many memorable things occur in Barkshire Reading can shew the ashes of Henry the 1. and Matilda his Queen Daughter to the Emperor Henry the 4. This witty Epitaph is put upon Her Ortu magna viro major sed maxima prole Heic jacet Henrici filia sponsa Parens She was Daughter Wife and Mother to three Henries But the most stately Castle of Winsore deserves a kind of admiration a most delicate and pompous Palace which hath been the cradle and Sepulchre of many Kings Among others Edward the third that thunderbolt of Warre was born there who to excite military vertue with splendor and rewards erected a noble society of Knights call'd the Knights of Saint George Whereinto many Emperors Kings and forren Princes held it a great honor to be coopted In the Province of Surrey there be many Royal Palaces there is Nonsuch house where the amaenity and sweetnesse of the soyl and fite doth contend with the rare artifice and curiosity of the structure for priority Sussex is a strong peece of Earth for her bowells are full of Iron whereof there be huge proportions made and dispers'd to other Shires I come now to Kent a very noble portion of Great Britany abounding with Pasturage with Medowes and fields of extraordinary fatnesse and fertility for any kind of cattle though never so meager do thrive when they come to feed on Kentish Grasse This County is very plentiful for all sorts of fruit specially for Cherries and 't is a pleasure to behold the Orchards when they are ripe This delicate fruit was brought to Rome by Lucullus from Pontus 600. years after the founding of the City and by the Romans brought to Britany and 't is remarkable how the vein of Earth and genius of that soyle doth agree with that fruit This Noble County enjoyes greater priviledges then any other for Kent was never conquer'd by the Norman but by way of treaty she conform'd upon such conditions By her shores lie all the Arsenals and Docks where the royal Shipps are built There is Canterbury an antient City the Metropolitan seat of the Archbishop and primate of all England call'd by Urban the 2. the Patriarch of the other World There stands Dover with a stupendous high Castle which seems to menace France that stands opposite and in sight of it We will leave Kent and go to the Severn on whose banks the gentle City of
jure suffragiorum beneficio Electorum atque populi quisque imperat Haec verissima esse convenit inter omnes annalium rerum humanarum divinarumque peritos atque jam saepius utriusque juris Caesarei atque Pontificii coelestis thesauri testimoniis comprobatum est Nonnulli quidem sanctuli praeter fas contra naturae legem docere non erubescunt pastoris beneficiarium esse Dominum neque ante principem principum esse aut nominari oportere quà m ille servus servorum Author fiat dignum judicârit qui regnet sed haec cum maxima Christianae Reipub. pernicie intollerabili populi Christiani imperatoriae Majestatis jacturâ nec sine gravissimo Tetrarcharum Dynastarum Clientium imperii detrimentâ—… instigante Stygio principe domino hujus mundi commenta esse eventus docet exitus probat Quare decernimus perpetuò sancimus Edicto nimirùm ex solo Electionis beneficio omnem potestatem imperiumque proficisci nec ullo pacto pontificis Romani in hac re sanctimonia flaminio authoritate consensu opus esse Quicunque aliter docuerit senserit â—…actitarit crimine laesae Majestatis reus hostis reipub atque proscriptus esto capite paenas solvito bona ejus publica sunto praedia infiscentur The most holy Empire being the highest power upon earth is the gift of heaven For the Emperour is first before all and second after God Almighty by whom the eternall Majesty does bestow Lawes Rights and Kingdomes to mankind and so great a name is onely given by God to whom onely he is accountable for the administration of the Commonwealth By the election of the Heptarchicall Electors according to the custome of our Ancestors and by the Law of Nations he is King and call'd so For him to send Ambassadours to the Priest of Rome that he would authorize him and give him leave to administer is against the Majesty of the Empire but to binde himself unto him by oath and seek of him the use of the royal Diadem is Religion The Pastor hath no right to any of these things who is servant to his sheep and serves the flock in consecrating the Lord For by right of suffrage by the benefit of the Electors and people every one reignes That these things are true is well known to all those that are vers'd in Antiquity never so little where they shall finde this Doctrine confirm'd not onely by Caesarean but Pontificial testimonies themselves Yet neverthelesse some Sciolists or little modern Saints doe not blush to teach the contrary viz. That the Lord is a Beneficiary to the Shepheard and that the Emperour may not be call'd Prince of Princes till he receive his authority from servus servorum from the servant of servants as the Pope stiles himself to be But this cannot be without much mischief to the Christian Commonwealth and without the utter overthrow of the Imperial Majesty on which so many Princes and Potentates depend Therefore it may be called a Doctrin suggested by the Stygian Prince and belched forth out of hell Therefore we decree and divulge it for an everlasting Sanction that the Caesarean Majesty is derived from the power of Election and not from any sanctimony consent or confirmation of Pontificall authority And whosoever shall maintain publish or teach otherwise we pronounce him criminall of High Treason a professed Enemy to the Imperial Commonwealth and worthy of capitall punishment or Proscription that the property of his goods be altered and confiscated Yet notwithstanding this solemn Sanction how hath the Papal power encreas'd upon the Imperial of late times Caesar was us'd to summon universal Councells It was Constantine the Great who call'd the Nicene Counsel Theodosius the Constantinopolitan Theodosius Iunior the Ephesian Martianus that of Chalcedon which four Councels are next in authority to the 4. Evangelists they are like the 4. Rivers that ran through Paradis Besides how many other General Councels were indicted by Emperors Besides it was their Prerogative to institute Popes Henry the 3. created Clement the 2. Damasus the 2. Leo 9. and Victor the 2. Nay Caesar was us'd to punish the contumacies and exorbitances of the Pope So did Otto the 1. chastice Pope Iohn and Benedict Henry the 3. Sylvester and Gregory Henry the 5. depos'd Pope Paschal There is a cloud of examples to prove this The summons of Henry the 4. to Gregory Hildebrand that Satanical St. as Damianus stiles him are very remarkable Tu Hildebrande non jam Apostolice sed false Monache descende vendicatam tibi sedem Apostolicam relinque Alius sedem B. Petri ascendet qui nulla violentiam Religione palliet sed Beati Petri doctrinam doceat Ego Henricus Rex dei gratiâ cum omnibus Episcopis nostris tibi dicimus descende descende Thou Hildebrand who art no apostolical but a false Monk descend leave the Apostolical seat which thou claimst another shall ascend blessed Peters Throne who will not palliate violence with Religion but teach Peters pure Doctrine I Henry by the grace of God King with all our Bishops do tell thee descend descend I do not see but the Emperor is Caesar still and endow'd with the same power Now touching the oth which the Pope exhibits to the Emperor it is not an Oth of alleageance or fidelity but that Oth relates to the protection and defence which he is bound thereby to give the Holy Church which Lords use to promise ordinarily to their Vassalls and temporal Princes to their subjects And whereas of old the Emperor out of a pious reverence to the Church did use to calculate the time of his reign from the day of his Coronation by the Pope we know well that that custom is grown obsolet and antiquated by a long desuetude In so much that the German or Electorian Coronation is now as valid as the other And I pray how many Emperors have omitted the Papal Coronation and neglected those superfluous formalities and ceremonies The Emperor Henricus Auceps being invited by the Pope to be crown'd at Rome answered It was sufficient for him to be King of the Romans by Gods Grace and so oblig'd to protect Germany from the incursion of infidells Rodolph the 1. gave such an other answer being advis'd to go to Rome to be crown'd Italy said he I know hath consum'd many Alman Kings I will not to Rome I am already King I am already an Emperor and I hope I shall be able to act for the Christian Common-wealth as if I had perform'd that ceremony at Rome The Canonists whose main endeavours are to elevate the Popes Miter above the Imperial Majesty would have it that when Caesar dies the Right is devolv'd to the Pope till a new Election But we well know most noble Princes that by our Golden bull it is ordain'd otherwise that during the Vacancy of the Empire the right of Administration appertains to the Electors of the Rhine and Saxony It is well known how Paul the 4. would have
contemplative life and to his devotions If I should stuff my speech with all those rare and holy men which Hungary hath produc'd it may be the Catalogue would be so large as that of Germany or France Some of them have deserv'd so well of the Common-Wealth of learning that they have been greater Benefactors then some Kings or Princes Among other IoaÌ„nes Sambucus a Doctor of Physick by profession was so diligent in the collection of the best Authors that his Library might be compared to any one private man 's in Europe which Nonnus and Hesychius doe testifie at large We are going now to make inspection into the heroique vertue of the Hungarians in point of Valour and Courage And first we could nominate eight Emperors which under a benign and happy star were born in Hungary In the Emperor Decius his vertues kept touch with his age and grew up together He came to the Caesarian dignity neither by ambition by bought suffrages nor canvasing and corrupting of friends but as his Election was fair so his Government was so exemplary and glorious that he was adjudg'd to deserve the character of Optimus Princeps by the unanimous judgement of the Senate had he not been given so much to Pagan superstition and oppress'd Christianity by such cruentous persecutions Aurelianus is cryed up to have kept the whole Roman Empire three years without the least invasion or noise of Warre he augmented the bounds of it and enhanc'd the glory of it all his life time but he was tainted with the same stain as Decius was He was of a tall stature but of a sinewy constitution and robust In so much that it is recorded how in the Sarmatian War he slew with his own hand 48 in one day but in all above 950. In so much that children and boyes us'd to sing up and down the streets on festivall daies Mille mille mille mille mille mille decollavimus unus homo mille mille mille mille mille decollavimus mille mille vivat qui mille mille occidit What shall I say of Probus the Emperor who for his meer vertue and valor was hois'd up to the transcendent dignity of an Emperor though descended of very mean Parents of a Gardiner his name suted with his nature for he was a man of punctuall probity He trounc'd the Pole he extinguish'd Tyrants he pacified the VVorld in so much that VVarres being ceas'd all the World over by Land and Sea it was said Milites minimè fore necessarios cùm desint hostes Souldiers were superfluous when there were no Enemies Dioclesian was also an Hungarian a Prince of a notable spirit who would have antecell'd all the rest had not the tenth persecution happen'd in his raign For there were nine before under Nero Domitian Traâ—…an Marcus Severus Maximus Decius Valerianus Aurelianus but that of Dioelesian was the bloudiest of all Iovianus Augustus was also a child of Hungary who being chosen Emperor refus'd it saying that he would not rule Pagans hereupon the soldiers with a loud voice said they were Christians Valentinianus and Valens were Hungarians and his Son Gratian all Emperors who did more exploits quam quae comprendere dictis In promptu mihi sit After this there rush'd into Hungary many rough septentrionall people in swarms as Vandales Goths Hunns Ostrogoths and Longobards at which time Pannonia came to be call'd Hungary and those stout Nations did incorporate and mix with the Hungarians Attila struck in like a thunderbolt and brought hither the Empire at which time Hungary had Greece and Italy in Vassalage and Stipendiary She did persecute the Gauls with devastations and â—…yrings She brought Germany after many changes of VVar to be tributary unto her and to pay this tribute Germany was constrain'd to make use of and melt her Church plate and that of Monasteries And there was no people on Earth so formidable as the Hungarian For their Empire did extend then from Austria to Constantinople and the Pontique Sea and from Poland to the Adriatique another way in which compasse of Earth there were 7. spacious Kingdoms subject to Hungary In so much that the King began to be call'd Archirix But what shall I say of Stephanus Sanctus who would never attempt any act in Warre or Peace but he would offer up some extraordinary sacrifice to Heaven What shall I say of Andrea the 2. who was so happy in the Education of his Children that his Daughter Elizabeth being married to the Langrave of Hessen for her austere and abstemious holy course of life was enroll'd in the Calender of Saints What shall I say of Ladislaus the first who quell'd the Pole brought down the Swisses courage while he was upon an expedition against the Sarracens by conjunction with other Princes pai'd nature the last debt and so died in the fulnesse of glory and the magnitude of his great exploits a man besides valour for integrity of life and innocence incomparable What shall I say of the Geisis of the Belis of Emericus of the many of the name of Charles and Lewis of Sigismund Albert and Uladislaus and of other most gallant Kings full of prowesse and piety VVith what Praeconiums shall I blazon the praise of Matthias the first ô what a Heroe was that Matthias he that was a terror to the East and West He that was Son to Huniades who was so great an Artist in policy and a well temperd Government He never embarqu'd himself in any businesse but he arriv'd at his wished Port he never attempted any businesse though never so arduous but he compas'd it being most constant and thorough in all his resolutions and in the prosecution of them who had such a dextrous and moving way to incite his souldiers that he made hope of Victory to serve for pay The Emperor Maximilian the first when he took the City Alba when he triumphantly entred the City the first thing he enquired after was Saint Maries Church where the body of Sanctus Stephanus was interr'd but spying the Armes and Ensignes of Matthias Corvinus being neerly fix'd and pendant upon the walls with this Inscription Sub marmore hoc Matthias situs est quem facta Deum ostendunt Fata fuisse hominem Here lieth Matthias under this Marble whom his feats shewed to be a God but his fate a man having I say spied and read this he burst into teares so highly did Maximilian esteem Matthias and indeed the perfections and prosperity of such a man whom would it not ravish For Matthias in his time was the only man who was said to bear armes He subdued the Bohemians he orecame the Valachians he afflicted the Pole he tam'd the Rebells of Hungary he reduc'd Austria under his Dominion he extended the limits of his Possessions to the shores of the Adriatique Sea he rais'd the seige of Otranto He dissipated innumerable swarmes of Turkes and so abated the spirit of the great Sultan Mahomet who in 32. years had acquir'd two Empires had