Charlemagne the Imperial Mantle the Globe the golden Scepter and the Sword the golden Bull also enjoyning him that is elected Emperour to receive at Aix la Chappelle the first Crown which is of Iron and if he receives it elsewhere the Imperial Ornaments are carried thither and a great Sword after the Persian fashion The Emperour after his Coronation receives the Oath from the Imperial Towns the Town of Strasburg refus'd it praying Count de Hanau who had Orders to receive it for Leopold to assure the Emperour that they would continue within the bounds of Duty and Acknowledgment towards his Imperial Majesty but that having not taken an Oath to any of his Predecessors for three hundred years they would not swear and could not innovate any thing You may see thereon Loüis du Mai Knight in his Book of the State of the Empire T. 1. p. 365. and T. 2. p. 203. The Emperour does not command absolutely out of his Hereditary Countries but governs by the way of Diets which are General Assemblies and as it were Estates General He is the Chief of the Empire and the Electors are the principal Members His hereditary Estates are those of Austria and Bohemia those of Hungary are Elective The Golden Bull. THe Constitutions of the Empire are contain'd in the Golden Bull which is a little Book its Original is writ on Parchment containing twenty four Leaves and thirty Chapters the twenty three first were publisht at Nuremberg 1356. the tenth of January and the other seven at Metz in the same year on Christmas-day This Book treats of the Election of the King of the Romans of the Ceremonies that ought to be observ'd in the Election of the Emperour and of his Authority of the Devoir and Priviledges of the Electors and other Officers of the Empire and also of the means to preserve Peace The Emperour Charles the Fourth of the House of Luxembourg made this Bulle call'd by his name the Caroline in the presence and with the consent of the greatest part of the Princes Lords and other Estates of the Empire This Edict comprehending the Fundamental Laws of the Empire was seal'd with a great round Seal not on Wax nor on Lead nor on Silver but on Gold to shew that as this Metal is incorruptible and the noblest of all so that the Laws which this Bulle contains being the principal of the Empire ought not to be chang'd The Seal is fasten'd to red and yellow Strings of Silk on one side of it there is the Effigies of the Author seated in his Throne vested with the Imperial Mantle the Crown on his head the Septer in one hand and the Globe of the Empire in the other with this Inscription Carolus IV. divina favente Clementia Romanorum Imperator semper Augustus Bohemiae Rex On the other side there is a Castle with two Towns and this Devise Aurea Roma and in the circumference Roma Caput Mundi regit orbis fraena rotundi There is an Inscription on both sides because the Seal is impress'd and engrav'd on both sides on a great Medal hanging beneath the Bulle It is reported of this Prince that in recompensing the Treason of three Captains of Philip of Austria his Enemy as they deserv'd he caus'd them to be paid 600000 Crowns which he had promis'd them but it was in false Coin The Traytors complaining the Emperour said to them Go too false Money is well enough for those who have falsified their Faith to their Prince Prerogatives of the Emperour THe chief Prerogatives of the Emperour are to create Kings to require the Towns of the Empire by Proclamation to attend him on occasion to give the Investitute of Fiefs the Power of Legitimating and other Priviledges Fourteen Emperours of the House of Austria THe Empire has been in divers Houses according to the pleasure of the Electors There are counted fourteen Emperours of the House of Austria to Leopold reigning at present The first was Rodolphus of Alsatia Earl of Habsbourg Writers take notice of him for that before his Election as he was hunting a Priest carrying the Sacrament to a dying Peasant he alighted off his horse and made the Priest get up upon him and afterward taking the horse by the reins he accompanied the Sacrament a long difficult and troublesome way till he came to the Hut of the poor sick person This extraordinary act of Piety and Religion has been so well recompens'd by God that since that time this house is aggrandiz'd and rendred Illustrious throughout the whole Earth The Castle of Habsbourg the original Seat of the Emperours of the House of Austria is two leagues from Bâle there are now onely the Ruines to be seen the Switzers not suffering it to be rebuilt The chief Towns of Germany VIenna Prague Presburg Aix la Chappelle Ratisbonne Erfort Dresden Munic Strasbourg Hambourg Mayence Cologne Tréves Munster Magdeburg Lubec Nuremberg Ausburg Heyldeburg Francfort on the Meine Passau Visbourg Brunsvic Inspruch Bremen Brandenburg Berlin Hanover Francfort on the Oder and others The four Wood-land-Towns Valdshoüet Lauffembourg Seckinge and Reinfeld are so call'd because they are built in Woods The four Rustick Towns are Cologne Ratisbonne Constance and Saltzbourg Vienna is a Bulwark of Christendom against the Turks the Emperour Ferdinand the Third and Leopold Ignatius his Son fortified it with large and deep Trenches growing broader and broader from the bottom to the top with twelve great Bastions and high Ramparts There are but six Gates to pass into this Town and they are always shut before Sun-set those that come late from walking enter by a Wicket at the Gate of Italy which they must open with a silver Key Solyman the Second Emperour of the Turks besieg'd this Town with 300000 men the 26th of September of the year 1529. and was forc'd to raise the Siege the 14th of October following after having lost there a great part of his Souldiers some say fourscore thousand men A great number of Bassa's and other Commanders heads were planted on the Walls of this place which vigoroufly held out twenty Assaults Notwithstanding this firm Resistance Solyman would not withdraw himself till they had permitted him to cause the Crescent to be set up in Vienna this was accorded him pro bono pacis and as a Memorial of this Siege The Crescent is to be seen on the Pyramidal point of the Steeple of the Cathedral-Church of S. Steven The Town was not then fortified as it is at present being now the strongest of all Germany It s Bishop is Suffragan of the Archbishop of Saltzburg who has eleven The University of Vienna was founded by Albert the Third There are seen in the Emperours Library fourscore and seven Paper-writings hung up where it is exactly treated of the Vniversity of Paris of its Statutes and Priviledges The Plague destroy'd An. 1679. a world of people at Vienna and in all Austria Prague is the Capital City of the Kingdom of Bohemia whereof we shall
afterwards they were precognized in the first Consistory for their due capacity In France by the Concordat betwixt Leo the Tenth and Francis the First those that are nominated to Bishopricks are not examined because they are all Doctors or Licentiats in Divinity in one of the Laws Canon or Civil which is a mark of their Capacity they make only a Profession of their Faith betwixt the hands of the Popes Nuncio or of the Metropolitan Princes destinated to the Episcopacy are dispensed from taking the Degree in the University nevertheless they are the first to study At the beginning of the year 1680 his Holiness caused all the Preachers to come to the Palace and exhorted them to preach particularly by their Example Singularities and curious and remarkable Actions of some Popes ST Clement the First instituted the Colledge of Apostolical Protonotaries for writing the Lives of Martyrs and of all the other Saints Claudius surnamed Vaurus writes that in his time a participant Protonotaries place was sold for 7000 Crowns of Gold and that it yielded of yearly Revenue 3 or 4000 Crowns that the participant Protonotaries which are in number twelve are ordinarily Masters of Requests for both Seals that they have rank and place in the Popes Chappel are cloathed with Violet wear the Rochet and the Hat with the Violet Band and Border have precedency of Prelates which are not consecrated are present in the half publick Consistory at the Canonization of Saints and other great Actions of the Pope have power to give the Cap of Doctor and to create Apostolical Protonotaries without the Walls of Rome The same Claudius Vaurus says that if the Apostolical Protonotaries are not much esteemed in France it 's because they are somewhat idle in performing their Function though haply this idleness be not blamable in them because there is want of matter for them to exercise themselves there being but few Martyrs and Saints at present within our Kingdom that oblige the Protonotaries to write their Lives St. Cletus was the first that inserted in his Letters these words Salutem Benedictionem Apostolicum St. Anacletus ordained that Ecclesiasticks should wear their hair short and confirmed by a new Decree that Bishops should be consecrated by three other Bishops Telesphorus a Grecian by Nation enjoyned the use of singing at Mass the Canticle of the Angels Gloria in excelsis Deo and impower'd Priests to say three Masses on Christmass-day St. Zephyrinus made the Decree of receiving the Communion at least once a year and not to proceed in Law against a Bishop accus'd of any Crime whatsoever without the authority of the holy See St. Lucius ordained that a Bishop should be always accompanied with some Priest to the end that his presence should oblige him to lead a regular life St. Sylvester the First the thirty fourth Pope was the first that erected an Altar of Stone which he consecrated and anointed with holy Oyl Before him they were made of Wood and portable by reason of the persecution that the Christians underwent under the Pagan Emperours which was so great that the thirty three first Popes suffered Martyrdom He was raised to the Pontificate in the beginning of the Empire of Constantine the Great who embracing Christianity gave joy and tranquillity to the Church and a secure Settlement after so many troubles and afflictions This Emperour after he was baptized enlarged the Christian Religion built Churches made Foundations for entertaining its Ministers with splendour and freed the Clergie from Taxes He transported the Seat of his Empire into Thracia to the Town of Bysantium called since by him Constantinople St. Damasus suppressed the Corepiscopi they were Priests whom the Bishops were wont to send into divers Villages and Burroughs of their Diocesses with a particular power to preach the the Word of God and to establish Ecclesiastical Discipline They were called Corepiscopi They were suppressed because they went often beyond their Commission doing Functions that belonged but to the Bishops themselves Some of them had the Episcopal Character St. Gregory the Great was the first who qualified himself Servus servorum Dei the Servant of the servants of God He took this Title to check the boldness of John the Faster Patriarch of Constantinople who took the Title of Vniversal Bishop The Emperour Phocas condemned the Arrogancy of this Prelate declaring by an Edict the contrary according to the judgment of the ancient Fathers and Councils who own'd the Church of Rome to be the Head of all others Pope Boniface the Third according to the common opinion introduced the use of Bells in the Church Anno 606. The learned Genebrard ascribes the â—â—vention to Pope Sabinianus who ordained Anno 604. that they should be rung at Canonical hours and at Mass The Bell is called Campana from a Province of Italy called Campania where it 's thought they began They were introduced into Greece Anno 865. by those that the Venetians sent to the Emperour Michael Baron 865. the Bell is made speak thus 1. Laudo Deum verum 2. Plebem voco 3. Convoce Clerum 4. Defunctos ploro 5. Pestem fugo 6. Festa decoro Those that have a mind to know more may read Paluoti Sergius the First caused the Agnus Dei to be sung at Mass Adrian the First ordained that the Papal Bulls should be seal'd with Lead and not with Wax for the longer continuance of the Seals Leo the Tenth made the famous Concordat with Francis the First Anno 1515. according to which it is permitted to the Kings of France to have the Nomination to Bishopricks and Abbeys These Benefices are called Consistorial because their vacancy is propos'd in the Consistory to be provided for The Pope reserves to himself a years Revenue from each of these Benefices and it is that which is called the Law of first Fruits which is paid when the Bulls are taken up Gregory the ninth caused the Book of Decretals to be couch'd in writing containing the Constitutions of the Popes to serve for the Canon-Law which is read in Catholick Universities Paul the Third obliged the Jews to wear the Yellow Cap to distinguish them from the Christians Gregory the Thirteenth reform'd the Kalendar Anno 1582. by cutting off ten days in October from the fifth of the said month to the 14th inclusively so that after the fourth of October the ten days following were leapt over and they counted the 15th the day after England Sweden Denmark and other Northern Countries that disown the Pope do not make use of this Kalendar which is called otherwise the Gregorian year but retain the ancient way of counting Thence it is that when Catholick Countries are at fourteen in the month the others count four and say in their dates the ancient or new Stile Famous Astrologers and Mathematicians were employed in reforming this Kalendar to take care that the points of the Equinoxes and Solstices should not change place for the future which had caused a
disorder in the day fixt for the Feast of Easter which ought always to be the Sunday after the full Moon of the Equinox of March. Pope Victor the First made a Decree to avoid concurring with the Jews and others who were called Quarto-decumans because they celebrated it the 14th of the Moon on whatever day of the Week it happened The Decree of this Prelate was confirmed in the first General Council of Nice Anno 1679 the Elector of Saxony caused a form to be presented to the Diet of Ratisbone for agreeing on a Kalendar to be received throughout the Empire of Germany Gregory the Thirteenth ordained that the Cardinals of Religious Orders who wore a black Cap or of the colour of their Order should wear it red like the others It was Innocent the Twelfth who gave the Cardinals in the Council of Lions the red Cap as an Hieroglifick that they ought to pour forth their bloud for the support of the Church as it results from the words which the Pope uses in putting it on their heads in these terms Ad laudem Omnipotentis Dei Sanctae Sedis Apostolicae ornamentum accipe Galerum rubrum Insigne singulare dignitatis Cardinalatûs per quod designatur quod usque ad mortem sanguinis effusionem inclusivè pro exaltatione Sanctae Fidei pace quiete populi Christiani augmento statu sacrosanctae Romanae Ecclesiae te intrepidum exhibere debeas In nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti His Holiness sends the red Cap with a Brief to those that are not present at Rome in the Consistory As to the Hat it is given kneeling from the hand of the Pope unless a person be employed in some important Embassie to the holy See in this case the Pope sends it to the Cardinal newly created to authorize him the more and render him more venerable His Holiness's Courrier that carries the Hat from Rome carries with it the form of the Oath of Fidelity and delivers all into the hands of the Prelate appointed to perform that Ceremony which is splendid You must observe that Cardinals that have not received the Hat cannot be Legates of the holy See till they have first taken it as the above-mentioned Claudius Vaurus informs us In the Ceremony of opening the Mouth that is to say in the permission the Pope gives to new Cardinals to opine and to give their Votes and Suffrages he says to them Aperimus vobis os tam in collationibus quam in Consiliis atque in electione summi Pontificis in omnibus actibus tam in Consistorio quà m extra qui ad Cardinales spectant quos soliti sunt exercere In nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Amen You must observe it was in use above an Age that if a Pope died whilst a new Cardinal had his mouth shut he might enter if he please into the Conclave but he could not be elected Pope nor give his Suffrage for any person unless the sacred Colledge the See being vacant by a special Act of Grace gave him an Active and Passive Voice as it did to Cardinal Conty Pope Pius the Fifth has declared since by a Decree of the 26th of January 1571 That this closing of the mouth does not deprive the new Cardinal of his power and principal Function which consists in the Election of the Pope Gregory the Fifteenth brought in use the Election of Popes by secret Suffrages that the Cardinals might be more free in giving their Votes Formerly 't was said Non fit bis in die Scrutinium Now it is performed in the morning after Mass and in the Evening after the Hymn of the Holy Ghost Vrban the Eighth gave Cardinals the Title Eminentissiums he caused the body and writings of Marc. Anthony de Dominis to be burnt after his death for an example Dominis was Archbishop of Spalathra anciently Salona in Dalmatia Alexander the Seventh received Christan Queen of Sweden into the Communion of the Catholick Apostolick and Roman Church Observations on the reducement of Jubiles under what Popes and in what times BOniface the Eighth Anno 1300. ordained that the celebration of the Jubile should be performed every hundred years both to pay to God solemn acts of Thanksgivings at the end of â—â—ch Age and that Christian Rome should not have less acknowledgment for the true God than Profane Rome shewed heretofore to its Idols by the centenary sports or games which it solemnized with an extraordinary concourse of people Clement the Sixth established it for the time to come from fifty to fifty years answering to that of the Hebrews and in consideration of the number of fifty consecrated by the visible descent of the Holy Ghost and also by reason of the shortness of mans life because few persons enjoyed the benefit of this great Treasure Vrban the Sixth as Gretserus tells us reduced it to thirty three years in memory of the thirty three years that the Son of God passed on the Earth Paulus the Eleventh desiring that every man should partake of so great a favour abbreviated the time and established it from twenty five to twenty five years Thomas Friard in his Book of the Jubile taxes this of falshood alleadging that Paul was dead three or four years before this reducement and that it was Sixtus the Fourth his Successor before General of the Cordeliers who sixt it at this number of years If this Writer had dived to the bottom of this matter and had read the Popes Bullary thereon he had found that Paul ordained it as it appears by his Bull. It is true that he could not celebrate it because death prevented him In a word he had seen that the one ordained it the other confirmed and executed it Anno 1473. Du Chesne has it express in his History of the Popes And the Abbot Le Maire Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen Doctor of Sorbonne great Vicar and Archdeacon of Chartres a learned and most eloquent man understands it so in his Book of the Jubile This Jubile has ever since been observed and practised to this time Besides the ordinary and set Jubiles at certain times there are some extraordinary ones which the Church opens in her urgent necessities to obtain some favour from Heaven We shall remark here cursorily that what Boniface called a plenary Indulgence of all sins Clement the Sixth and his Successors have given it the name of Jubile which marks a publick rejoycing in God Liberty Remission time of Propitiation according to Josephus and according to the Septuagint Under the ancient Law the Jubile was publisht with a sort of Trumpet made of a Rams horn Having proposed to my self in this Work to give an account of some curious and remarkable things in the States of each Soveraign on the Earth I shall briefly note here the Ceremony that is used at Rome at the Opening and Close of the Jubile and other things worthy memory The Opening of the Jubile THe
opening of it is performed ordinarily the 24th day of December on Christmas-eve by the opening of the holy Door which is so called because by its opening and entrance we enter into Grace and become holy by practising what is ordained by the Bull of the Jubile On the day and Feast of the Ascension of the Son of God which precedes the holy Year two Priests after having read the Gospel read the Bull the one in Latine and the other in Italian and publish the approaching Jubile His Holiness on the Christmas-eve following goes a general Procession the Cardinals the Secular and Regular Clergie the Ambassadours of Christian Princes and the Officers of the City of Rome and all the common people accompany him and about noon he comes to the door of St. Peter of the Vatican which is walled up then the Pope strikes three stroaks with a silver Hammer against this Wall which is presently thrown down the door is washt with holy Water it 's opened the Company enters into the Church they sing Vesperas with all solemnity and at the same time the Pope sends three Cardinals to open the doors of the Churches of St. Paul of St. John Lateran of St. Mary Major where the same Ceremonies are used The Silver Hammer is a Symbol of the Popes power which Jesus Christ gave him by giving him the Keys of St. Peter the Hammer was formerly of Massy Gold The Penitentiaries in such Solemnities are near the Popes Person to shew that he communicates his Jurisdiction to Confessors to whom he gives the power of Absolving from all Crimes and even in cases that are reserved to himself The opening of the Holy Door is an Hieroglyphick of the opening of the Churches Treasure whereof the Pope is the dispenser four doors are open'd to shew that persons are call'd from the four parts of the world The Doors are washt to intimate that those persons gain the Jubile who are cleansed from their faults and defilement by the vertue of the Sacraments and by the application of the Merits of Jesus Christ over the Holy Door they set the Name of the Pope that opened it last and the time The shutting up of the Jubile THe end of the year of Jubile being elaps'd the Pope on Christmass-Eve goes in Procession from the Apostolick Palace to St. Peters Church where after Vesperas are sung his Holiness appoints three Cardinals to go and shut the other three holy doors and at the same time himself accompanied with the Clergy and with all that is great and splendid in Rome marches processionally goes forth at the holy door blesses the Materials appointed to wall it up which is not open'd but the year of the Jubile lays the first stone with some pieces of Gold and of Silver and says in Latine what I turn into English Through the Faith and through the vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ Son of the living God who said to the Prince of the Apostles Thou art Peter and on this Rock I will build my Church we lay this first stone for shutting this Holy Door which ought to be again thus shut in this year of Jubile In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost In what sence the Title of Holiness is attributed to the Pope against the Protestants THe Pretenders to Religion who love always to cavil and to mix Controversy in their Discourse conformable to what is said by the Latine Poet Navita de ventis de Bobus narrat Arator Enumerat Miles vulnera Pastor oves not able to endure that we give the Pope the Title of Holiness nor that we call the Doors before mentioned Holy thinking it a Blasphemy I answer them that they blame what they do not understand they ought to consider that there are three sorts of Holiness the first by Nature and Essence which is increated infinite incomprehensible and incommunicable to all other persons but to those of the most Holy Trinity The second by Consecration which is found in animate and inanimate things it is diversly caused by Prayers and Blessings by Oyl and by Unction The third Holiness consists in an Habitual Grace inviolable to sin The Catholicks do not say that the Pope is Holy by a Holiness of Nature or of Essence which belongs but to God alone who is the sole Original final Sovraign of all Holiness the Popes understand it so they own themselves sinners before God implore his mercy and make a confession of their sins When we call the Pope the Holy Father it is by Consecration the Priests the Prophets and the Kings were Anointed and Consecrated under the ancient Law as well as the new and now the Popes and the Abboâ—s are blest Churches Altars Tabernacles Crosses Chalices and Bells are holy things with a Holiness of Consecration which is an exteriour Sanctification If the Roman Church be call'd Holy why shall we not call him Holy that presides in it If the Body be called Holy the Head is not Profane The great Priest Aaron wore on his Tiara a Plate of Gold where these â—ords were Engraven Holiness to the Lord. Let us proceed to the other remarks and disquisitions Other Splendid Ceremonies IT 's at Rome where we see Seven other very curious and remarkable Ceremonies the Canonization of Saints the Coronation of the Pope that of the Emperour of Kings of Empresses of Queens and the Creation of Cardinals A touch in the Honour of Rome IF it be said of this Capital of the world that at present Rome is sought for is Rome because it has lost that vain splendour which it drew from its ancient Roman Emperours we say also that what she holds no longer by her arms she possesses by Religion Sedes Roma Petri quae Pastoralis honoris Facta Caput Mundi quicquid non possidet Armis Religione tenet It 's said of St. Peters Church at Rome and of St. Sernin at Tolouse Non est in toto Sanctior orbe locus Three desires of St. Austin ST Austin wisht to see Three things Jesus Christ on the Earth St. Paul in the Chair and Rome the Triumphante The Dominion of the Pope THe Vatican which is the Palace of St. Peter the Palace of St. John Lateran Castelgandolphi Mont-Cavallo otherwise Montquirinal and the Castle St. Angelo belong to the Pope he possesses the Patrimony of St. Peter the Dukedom of Spoleto Marcha Anconitana Romandiola the Dutchy of Benevent in the Kingdom of Naples the Dukedoms of Ferrara and of Vrbin Ceneda in the Marca Trevisano Montaldo and San Stephano on the side of the River of Genoa and the Country of Avignon in France c. You must observe that the Countess Mathilda made the Holy Sea Heir to her Lands which have since been call'd St. Peters Patrimony When the Roman Emperour is at Rome he lodges in the Vatican which is the Imperial Palace Civita Vecchia is famous for it's Port it s there where his Holinesses Galleys are
side of Piedmont it receives thirty Rivers into its Channel and a great many Lakes and Ponds its course is from the West to the East Popes by birth French-men and some passages of their Lives SYlvester the Second Vrban the Second Calixtus the Second Vrban the Fourth Clement the Fourth Innocent the Fifth Martin the Fourth Clement the Fifth John the Twenty second Benedict the Eleventh Clement the Sixth Innocent the Sixth Vrban the Fifth Gregory the Eleventh Sylvester the second of the name called before Gilbert or Gerbert born in Aquitain was a Religious man and Benedictine of St. Gerard of Aurillac in the Diocess of St. Flour and Tutor to Robert King of France and to the Emperour Otho the Third who raised him to the soveraign Pontificate He was first Archbishop of Rheims and then of Ravenna and lastly Pope which gave occasion for this Verse to be made on him Scandit ab R. Gerbertus in R. post Papa Regens est He was a great Mathematician which caused his Enemies to accuse him of Magick He was falsely charg'd for having in his Closet a Head of Brass by which the Devil answered what he askt He died the 12th day of May 1003. Pope Sergius his Successour writ his Epitaph which is yet to be seen and shews that he lived and died a holy man Vrban the second of the name was born at Chastillon on Marne Son of Milon He was called before his Exaltation Cardinal Otho Bishop of Ostia He excommunicated the Diocess of Compostella for having put their Bishop in prison and governed the Ship of St. Peter eleven years four months and eighteen days some say eleven years and a half He called into his Council St. Bruno Founder of the Order of the Charthusians He called the Council of Clairmont in Auvergne where he made the Enterprize of the holy War succeed which he called the Croizade because those that listed themselves were all crossed wearing a Cross sewn on their Habits He died An. 1110. Calixtus the Second was named Guy others say Guigue He was a Burgundian Uncle to Adelais Queen of France and near Cousin to the Emperour Henry He was Archbishop of Vienne in Daulphiné Suger Abbot of St. Dennis says that the night before his Election he saw as a Prognostick of his future Election a great Person that gave him the Moon to keep under his Archiepiscopal Cope fearing lest the Church might incur some danger by the death of Pope Gelasius He soon found the truth of this Vision seeing himself soveraign Pontife His Election was made whilst he was in the Abbey of Clugny An Anti-pope appeared at that time in Italy called Bourdin who was taken notwithstanding his intrenching and fortifying himself the Souldiers that took him mounted him on an old Camel and walkt him about the Streets publickly in derision with his face turn'd towards the Tail which they made him hold as a Bridle and afterwards he was confined to a perpetual imprisonment Calixtus assembled a Council at Rheims possest the Holy See about six years died the 19th of December 1124. In the time of his Pontificate St. Norbert founded his Order called Praemonstratensis from the place where he retired himself which is in the Diocess of Laon. Vrban the Second of the Town of Troy in Champagne was the Son of a Cobler and called James Pantaleon he recompensed the defaults of his birth by the eminency of his Learning and Vertue After having been Canon and Archdeacon of Laon and afterwards of Liege he was made Bishop of Verdun from Bishop he became Patriark of Hierusalem from Patriark Legate in divers places and then afterward Pope The Prophetick Motto was Hierusalem Campaniae When any one reproached him with the lowness and obscureness of his Birth he answered That the Nobility which is acquired by the gifts of the Understanding is more valuable than that which comes from Birth alone and that it consists in Vertue Those that are born Noble may say to their advantage and with truth that Jesus Christ was a Gentleman and the holy Virgin a Gentlewoman It is very true when Nobleness of Bloud is joyned with that of Vertue it is Perfection Superiours of an ignoble Birth may object that St. Peter who had the government of the Church was no Gentleman This Prelate after three years of the Pontificate left this mortal life the last day of September and according to Onuphrius the second day of October 1264. Clement the Fourth called before Guy Foucaut according to du Chesne was Native of the Town St. Gilles in Languedoc and according to Father Gautruche a Jesuit of a Village near Narbonne He was Bishop of Puy Archbishop of Narbonne and Cardinal by the Title of St. Sabine and Legate in England St. Loüis made him Counsellor of State because he was greatly skilled in the Laws Some think that he was elected Pope the 5th or 11th of February 1265. He crowned at Rome Charles of Anjou King of Naples and of Sicily with the ordinary Ceremonies in St. John Lateran's He had in his Arms an Eagle holding a Dragon in his Talons His Prophetick Motto was Draco depressus He died the 29th of November 1268. after three years and a half being Pope Martin the Fourth formerly Simon de Brie was Native of Mont-pincé or of the Village de Suci He founded the Chapter of Champeaux which is in the Diocess of Paris He was Treasurer and Canon of St. Martins of Tours and Cardinal by the Title of St. Cecil was elected Pope the 22th of February 1282. Under his Pontificate the year of his Election the French had their Throats cut throughout all Sicily This Massacre was called the Sicilian Vesperas because it was committed at the hour of Vesperas on an Easter-day O cruel Vesperas Peter of Arragon having an Army on foot under pretext of going into the Holy Land usurpt the Country at the sollicitation and detestable enterprize of a young Italian Gentleman a sworn Enemy to the French The Pope struck with a mortal grief excommunicated the Sicilians and those of Arragon for their Attempt and black Treason This Prelate created many Cardinals amongst others the Dean of the Church of Nostre Dame at Paris called Geofry de Barbo a Burgundian The Prophetick saying on this Pope was Ex Telonio Liliacei because he was Treasurer of St. Martins of Tours others say Liliacei Martini believing that this Church was adjudged the midst and the centre of France the Kingdom of Flower-de-luces God took him out of this World at Peruse the 28th or 29th day of March 1285. Two Miracles happened at his Burial Clement the Fifth born at Bourdeaux had for his Father Beraud Chevalier Lord of Villandrault Before his Exaltation he was called Bertrand Gout de Gutto He had in his Arms three Bars Gules in a Field Or the Prophecie was de Festis Aquitanicis The Cardinals continued ten months in the Conclave for the creation of this Prelate before Bishop of Cominges then Archbishop of
subject Auchs joyn'd with the Country of Eusan ninety six Prelates from Ceratius to Messire Henry de la Motthe Houdancourt Commander of the Kings Orders and Purveyor of Navarre formerly Bishop of Rennes and Almoner of the deceas'd Queen-Mother He is esteem'd one of the most learn'd Prelates in Antiquity and in the Science of the canon-Canon-Law absolutely necessary for the government of the Church It 's what is requir'd at Rome The Suffragans are ten Aire Acqs or Dax Bayonne Couserans Comminges Leitoure Lescar Oleron Tarbes Bazas Aire fifty one from Marcel to Messire Jean-Loüis de Fromentieres Preacher in Ordinary to the King Acqs fifty seven from S. Vincent Martyr to Messire Philippes de Chaumont Bayonne twenty nine from Leon to Messire Henry de Garsias the Prelate that occupies it at present is call'd Messire Jean Dolce Couserans sixty three from S. Valere to Messire Gabriel de S. Etienne vulgarly Esteve Comminges forty seven from Suavis to Messire Loüis de Rechignevoisin de Guron Leitoure forty five from Heutherius to Messire Hugues de Bar. Lescar forty five from S. Julien to Messire Jean de Haut de Sallies President of the Estates of Bearn first Counsellor to the Parliament of Pau and first Baron of Province Oleron forty four from Gratus to Messire Arnaud-Francois Maitié Tarbes forty nine from Antomerius to Messire Francois de Poudens Bazas fifty from Sextilius to Messire Guillaume de la Boissonade of Ortie formerly Chanter of the Church of Agen he succeeds Samuel Martineau Elne joyn'd with Perpignan a hundred and five from Apel who was nominated Successor of N. Marguerit This Diocess has been Suffragan sometimes of Tarragone sometimes of Narbonne Elne is three leagues from Perpignan The Archbishoprick of Lyons LYons a hundred twenty two Bishops or Archbishops from Potin to Messire Camille de Neufville de Villeroy Archbishop and Count of Lyons Primate of the Gauls and Commander of the Kings Orders and Lieutenant General for his Majesty of Lyonnois Forez and Beaujolois The Suffragans are Authun Chalons or Saone Langres and Mascon Authun a hundred eighty four from S. Amant to Messire Gabriel de Roquette Successor of Loüis d'Attichi He is President of course of the Estates of Burgundy Administrator Spiritual and Temporal of the Archbishoprick of Lyons during the vacancy of the See Pope Innocent the Eleventh granted this Prelate the Pallium the third of October in the year 1678. Though the Church of Authun enjoy'd this priviledge from the Pontificate of St. Gregory the Great its Bishops have not been able to obtain it for many Ages whatever instances they have made Messire Gabriel de Roquette received it from the hands of the Archbishop of Lyons Messire Camille de Neufville of Villeroy with the ordinary Ceremonies in the Church of the Carmelites of the faux-bourg S. Jacques of Paris the 21 of May 1679. It is to be observ'd that it 's said to the Pope the day of the Ceremony of his Consecration when he puts on the Pallium Accipe Pallium sanctum plenitudinem Pontificalis Officii Chalons seventy six from Donatien to Messire Henry-Felix de Tassis Dean of the holy Chappel of Vincennes Langres ninety three from Senator to Messire Loüis de Simianes de Gordes Duke and Peer of France Count of S. Jean de Lyon and first Almoner of the Queen The Bishop of Langres carries the Scepter at the Ceremony of the Consecration and Coronation of the King The Duke of Burgundy bears the Crown and puts the Sword by the Kings side The Peers appear with a Circle of Gold on their heads in the form of a Crown There are Princes and Lords chosen to represent the Peers whose Peerages have been reunited to the Crown Mascon seventy seven from S. Placide to Messire Michel de Tilladet The Archbishoprick of Bourdeaux BOurdeaux seventy two Prelates from S. Gilbert to Messire Loüis de Bourlemont Auditor of the Rota The Suffragans are Agen Condom Angoulesme Lusson Rochelle Perigeux Poitiers Xaintes Sarlat Agen sixty one Bishops from S. Caprasi to Messire Jules Mascaron Preacher in Ordinary to the King He was Bishop of Tulles The Pope propos'd him in his Consistory for the Church of Agen. Condom twenty three from Raymond Goulard to Messire Jacques de Mattignon who succeeds Messire Jacques Benigne Bousset Tutor to M. le Dauphin and at present first Almoner of Madam the Dauphiness and Author of a Book entituled The Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholick Church on matters of Controversie Angoulesme sixty seven from S. Auson to Messire Francois de Pericard Lusson thirty from Pierre de la Voirie to Messire Henry de Barillion Rochelle joyn'd with Maillezais twenty four The Episcopal See was remov'd from Maillezais to Rochelle An. 1648 by a Bull of Pope Innocent the Tenth and with Letters Patents of Loüis the Fourteenth The first Bishop of Maillezais was call'd Gaufrid Pauvrelle and the two first of Rochelle were Jacques Raoul and Messire Henry de la Valle de Boisdauphin de Sable Perigueux seventy from S. Fronto to Messire Claude le Boux Preacher in Ordinary to his Majesty Poitiers a hundred and five from Liberius to Messire Hardoüin Fortin de la Hoguette formerly Bishop of S. Brieux He was Agent-General of the Clergy of France Xaintes sixty six from S. Eutrope to Messire Guillaume de la Brunetiere du Plessis Geté formerly Archdeacon and Canon of the Church of Paris and grand Vicar of the two last Archbishops This Prelate at his coming to the Pontificate having found in the Field of his Church the Darnel whereof it is spoken in the Gospel that the man enemy had sown there during the darkness of the night tore it up without unrooting the good seed by his skill and dexterity Sarlat thirty one from Raymond de Roquecor to Messire Loüis de Salagnac The Archbishoprick of Arles ARles eighty seven Prelates from S. Trophime to Messire Francois Adheimar de Monteil de Grignan Primate Prince of Salon and of Montdragon Commander of the Kings Orders Messire Jean Baptiste Adheimar de Monteil de Grignan was nominated his Coadjutor an 1666. and consecrated at Vzes an 1677. He preacht in Advents before their Majesties and has made fine Speeches to the King as deputed by the general Assemblies of the Clergy The first Archbishop of Arles was called S. Cezaire The Town glories in having given birth to eleven of its Bishops and Archbishops which are St. Honorat S. Aurelien Pierre Ainard Imbert de Guieres Michel de Morieres Hugues Bouardi Bertrand de S. Maleferrat Bertrand Almaric and Gaspart du Laurens I remit those who would have an ample relation on this subject to a Book newly compos'd by the Abbot de Port Native of Arles which contains excellent Remarks he has entitul'd it The Ecclesiastical and Secular History of Arles it 's the third Book wherewith he has gratified the Publick The first is a fine Book of Prayer the second a fine Rhetorick The
of Tarbes He expected his Bulls for S Omer An. 1679. A Historiographer of France says that he has been assur'd that the custom of defending Theses in Greek pass'd from S. Omer to Paris in a Book entituled Les Entretiens de Luxembourg p. 193. The Archbishoprick of Bezancon BEzancon ninety four Prelates and Archbishops from S. Lin to Messire Antoine de Gramont The Canons of his Cathedral bear in their Arms a Camail of Silk Azure doubled with Taffety Gules with a Crosier and a Mitre The Suffragans are Bellai Bâle Lausane These two last are in Switzerland Bellai has had eighty six Bishops from Audax to Messire Pierre du Laurens There was given to this Prelate for devise in a These dedicated to him Crescit suo sydere laurus by allusion to his Arms. Bâle sixty from Justinian to blessed Ramestein who died An. 1651. After that Bâle was entirely Protestant the Episcopal See was plac'd at Potentru Lauzane sixty three from S Beat to Messire Jean de Vateville who died An. 1649. The See is at Fribourg in Brisgou Buntruc is the ordinary Seat of the Bishop Metz Toul and Verdun are Suffragans of Treves which has been taken and retaken Metz has had eighty nine Bishops from St. Clement to Messire George d' Aubusson de la Fueillade Commander of the Kings Orders Prince of the Empire formerly Archbishop of Ambrun and Embassadour at Venice Henry de Bourbon Duke of Verneüil Jule Mazarin and Prince Guillaume de Fustemberg though in the Catalogue of the Bishops of Metz not occupy the Episcopal See Toul eighty six from Mansuet to Messire Jacques de Fieux Prince of the Empire Verdun ninety four or ninety five from St. Sanctin to Messire N. de Bethune Bishop and Count of Verdun and Prince of the Empire He succeeds Messire Armand de Monchi d'Hoquincourt The Rank and Seats of the Prelates THe Archbishops and Bishops have Rank and Seat in the General Assemblies of the Clergy according to the antiquity of their Consecration The Prelates which are Dukes and Peers of France have the precedency above the others at the Ceremony of the Consecration of the Kings and in the Seats of Parliament and enter with their Coaches into the Court of the Louvre Agents General of the Clergie of France THe Clergy has two Agents General at Court to mind Eccesiastical affairs the Archbishops and Suffragan Bishops name them alternatively They hold their Charge five years because at each General Assembly of the Clergy two are created who are deputed each by the Province which names at his turn Messieurs the Abbots of Maretz Colbert and of Bezons Doctors of Sorbonne were created Agents An. 1680. having been nominated the one by the Archbishop of Rheims and the other by him of Narbonne Bourges and Vienne gave Agents An. 1675. It is observ'd that there is no Prelate who has been Agent-General of the Clergy but that he understands affairs for as men do business so business makes men The Clergy has also its Treasurer call'd otherwise Receiver-General Those that would know the continuation and succession of all the Archbishops and Bishops of France must read a Book of a great labour in four Volumes in Folio compos'd by the Sieurs de Sainte-Marthe entituled Gallia Christiana there are seen there a great number of Popes Bulls the day of the creation of the Prelates their Qualities their Arms the names and the number of Abbeys This Work was printed An. 1656. and is worth a thousand other Impressions There is to be seen also another Book on this subject which has for Title Series Episcoporum Pierre Frison has given the publick Gallia Purpurata Since some time the King seldom gives Archbishopricks to Ecclesiastical persons if they are not actually Bishops These Archbishopricks contain many Suffragans under them our Conquests increase the number The sole Province of Languedoc has had to this time twenty two Bishops and as many Barons entring yearly into the Estates The Duke of Verneüil is Governour of this Province the Marquess de Cauvisson the Comte de Roure and the Marquess de Montanegue are Lieutenants General for the King and Messire Henry d' Aguessau Master of Requests and President of the Grand Council is there Intendant of Justice Polity and Finances He succeeds Messire Claude de Bezons Counsellor of State in Ordinary who liv'd there a long time and who manag'd well the Kings affairs We shall remark in favour of this Province that the Law of Aubeine or Escheatage has no place here by priviledge and exemption of the King nor in the Vicounty of Turenne Laurence Bouchet Advocate in the Court of Parliament of Paris is formal in the point in his Book entituled La Bibliotheque ou Tresor du droit des Francois in which are treated civil criminal and beneficial matters govern'd as well by the Ordinances and Customs of France as decided by Decrees of Soveraign Courts summarily extracted from the most famous French Lawyers and Practitioners and compar'd in many places with the Laws and Customs of Foreign Nations This book was printed at Paris An. 1629. There may be seen also thereon the book of the Province which contains its Priviledges The ordinary List of the Parliaments of France and the time of their erection PAris Tolose Grenoble Bordeaux Dijon Roüen Aix Rennes Pau and Metz. There are added Tornai and Dole its Parliament was plac'd at Bezancon An. 1674. Perpignan has a soveraign Council which judges without appeal as also Pignerol Brisac and other places That which the French call Parliament that is to say conference and debate concerning things belonging to Justice the Spaniards name Soveraign Council and the Savoyards the Senate The Parliament of Paris was made of constant Session on the place by Philippes le Bel An. 1302. and according to Chorier An. 1288. It was before liable to be remov'd from place ro place The 19th of May 1678. Loüis the Fourteenth nominated Messire Nicolas Potier Chevalier Lord of Novion and of Vilbon President of the Cap to the place of first President of this Parliament This place has been long due to his Merit to his Integrity to his great Lights and to that long experience of the Parliament-house which he has acquir'd with an indefatigable and wholly wonderful Assiduity He has rendred himself considerable on all occasions and particularly on those great days which he held at Clermont in Auvergne 1665. Tolose was instituted by the same Philippe le Bel and in the same year as Paris An. 1302. and made fixt An. 1443. and according to Chorier An. 1320. Its first President is at this day Messire Gaspart de Fieubet Grenoble by the Dolphin Loüis Son and Successor of Charles le Bel who confirm'd Anno 1453. by his Letters-Patents that which the Dolphin had done Its first President at this day is call'd Denis le Goux de la Berchere Bourdeaux by Loüis the Eleventh An. 1462. Bourdeaux and Grenoble sit by turns That of
Plenipotentiaries for the Emperour Signor Bevilaqua the Popes Nuncio has the reputation of having much contributed to this Peace The Treaty of Peace betwixt the Emperour and the King of Sweden was sign'd the same day by the Plenipotentiaries of the Emperour and by Count Oxenstern and Sieur Oliwenkans Embassadours Plenipotentiaries of Sweden The 19th of April the Ratification of the Emperour was exchang'd with that of the most Christian King The 26th this Peace was publisht at Paris with the ordinary Ceremonies The 29th of June the Sieur Pomponne Minister and Secretary of State and the Sieur Minders Envoy Extraordinary of the Elector of Brandenburg sign'd the Treaty of Peace betwixt his most Christian Majesty and the Elector of Brandenburg Some time after the Peace was likewise sign'd betwixt France Sweden Denmark and the Duke of Holstein Gottorp The Marriage of the Princess Mary-Loüise of Orleans with the King of Spain ANno 1679. the second of July after the suit which the Marquess de los Balbazez made of Mademoiselle in the name for the King of Spain the Chancellor of France the Marshal Duke de Villeroy the Sieurs Colbert and de Pomponne Ministers and Secretaries of State were nominated by the King for drawing the Articles of the Contract of Marriage which was sign'd the ninth by the Commissaries nominated and the Marquess de los Balbazez Embassadour Extraordinary of Spain The 26th of August the Contract of Marriage of the King of Spain was sign'd in the King of France's Closet by all the Royal House and by the Marquess de los Balbazez and afterward the Affiances were made by Cardinal Boüillon great Almoner of France The Ceremony of the Marriage was perform'd in the Chappel of the House of Fontainebleau The 20th of September the Queen of Spain parted from Fontainebleau for Spain she went into a Coach with the King the Queen M. le Dauphin Monsieur and Madame they went together two leagues on the way and parted from each other after having bid an Adieu very tenderly Her Catholick Majesty accompanied with Monsieur and Madam went on her way the Marquess and Marchioness de los Balbazez went the Journey with her The 30th of December of the year before-mentioned 1679. was sign'd at Munic the Contract of Marriage of M. le Dauphin with the Electoral Princess of Bavaria Mary An-Christian Victoir A Continuation of Affairs of this time THe King re-establisht by an Edict of 1679. the study of the Civil Law which had not been taught since the Ordinance of Blois of the year 1579. Messieurs Boucherat and de Bezons Counsellors of State who were nominated Commissioners for determining the difficulties which might hinder the execution of the Edict were present at the Harang which the Sieur Deloy Professor made the 17th of December in the Schools of Law to thank his Majesty for the favour granted Some time after the King to render more flourishing the study of the Civil Law of Paris made a Society of twelve Doctors who took the Oath tendred them by the same two Counsellors of State nominated Commissaries for this effect the Sieurs Boccager and le Gendre are of the number of the associated Doctors for their particular merit His most Christian Majesty appointed 200000 Livres to be distributed in the Diocesses of Narbonne Beziers Agde and S. Pons by reason of the Damages that they had suffered by the drought of the same year An. 1680. on the 15th of January the Contract of Marriage of Loüis Armand de Bourbon Prince of Conti with Mademoiselle de Blois Ann Mary de Bourbon was sign'd in the Kings Chamber the next day after Cardinal Boüillon perform'd the Ceremony of Marriage in the Chappel of the House of S. Germain in Laye The King nominated Abbot Hervaux to the Office of Auditor of the Rota possess'd before by Messire Charles de Bourlemont LORAIN LOrain Lotharingia took its name from Lotharius Grandchild of the Emperour Charlemagne The Ducal and Soveraign House of Lorain contains many Escotcheons over all a Bend Gules charg'd with three Alerions Argent in memory of Godefroy de Boüillon who at one sole shoot of an Arrow broacht three little Birds on it Its Princes bear also in their Arms the Cross of Hierusalem by reason of their pretences to the two Sicilies whereof the Kings were also Kings of Hierusalem Lorain has for capital City Nancy two Duchies that of Lorain and that of Bar. They count there three Bailiwicks or Seats of Judicature to wit that of Nancy that of Germany Lorain and that of Vauge These Bailiwicks comprize a great many Lands and Lordships as the County of Vaudemont the Marquisat Nomeni the Marquisat Hatonchatel the Lordships of Epinal on the Moselle Marsal Blamont Salverdin Boulai c. Charles the Fourth Duke of Lorain Uncle of Charles the Fifth Son of Francis Count of Vaudemont was depriv'd of his Estates for some years and restor'd to them upon the general Peace by special Articles the 3d of March 1661. The King of France and the King of Spain have been Masters the one of the Estates of this Prince and the other of his Person Henry the Second King of France conquer'd Metz Toul and Verdun these three Towns were straitly united to the Crown of France by the Treaty of Munster and by that of the Pyreneans Loüis the Thirteenth conquer'd the Town Bar le Duc and all the Country of Barrois and also the strong places Moyenvic Stenai Dun Jametz and the County of Clermont which ought to continue incorporated to France according to the Treaty of Peace made in the Isle of Faisans 1659. Loüis the Fourteenth on consideration of this Peace restor'd Prince Charles to the possession of the Dutchy of Lorain after having caus'd his Fortifications of Nancy to be demolish'd on condition that the Duke should leave off all Leagues Intelligences Associations and Practices with any Prince whatsoever which having not perform'd his Majesty dispossess'd him Since this Treaty of Peace Duke Charles has yielded up to the most Christian King the Property and Soveraignty of his Duchy of Lorain and Bar. The most learned Genealogists draw the Origine of the House of Lorain from above 2000 years It descends from Echinoal Maire of the Palace under Clovis the Second King of France 648. It 's the same Family with that of Austria at present Its Princes repair not to the Diets of the Empire fearing lest they should not have that place allow'd them which they pretend to conformable to their Birth The Dutchy of Bar is a Fief holding of the Crown of France The chief Towns of Lorain are NAncy Mireout Luneville Spinal Remiremont Diuze Valdegrange Rosieres Neufchatel c. Those of the Dutchy of Bar BAr le Duc S. Mihiel Pont-Amousson Stenay Estein Vizelise Moyenvic Commerci Pont-Amousson has the title of University its principal Founder was Prince Charles the Third The Country Messin contains a great many Towns Burroughs Villages Hamlets Castles c. At Luneville near Rosieres