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A07768	The mysterie of iniquitie: that is to say, The historie of the papacie Declaring by what degrees it is now mounted to this height, and what oppositions the better sort from time to time haue made against it. Where is also defended the right of emperours, kings, and Christian princes, against the assertions of the cardinals, Bellarmine and Baronius. By Philip Morney, knight, Lord du Plessis, &c. Englished by Samson Lennard.; Mystère d'iniquité. English	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Lennard, Samson, d. 1633.	1612 (1612)	STC 18147; ESTC S115092	954,645	704

with vs that we will very sufficiently proue that he was lawfully and orderly accused and conuicted To conclude because you haue ouershot your selfe in what is alreadie past we now entreat you for the honour of God and in reuerence to the holie Apostles that from hence forward you send no such mandats either to vs or to our Prelats or to the great men of our kingdome least we be enforced to dishonour them and those which bring them Which we tell you of beforehand for the honour of your priuiledge because we desire to be obedient vnto you in all things that are fitting as vnto the Vicar of Saint Peter But you must also take heed that you driue vs not to take that course which is both approued and commended in the fift generall Councell concerning the Apostolike authoritie and in the Synodall Epistle of Saint Gregorie to the foure Patriarches and the foure precedent Epistles all which treat of the ordering and limiting of Ecclesiasticall powers and jurisdictions which we would not insert into these our letters till we might see whether we may bend you to mitigat the rigour of your commaunds For looke what is sent vnto vs in the name of the See Apostolike according to the holie Scriptures and the preachings of our auncestors and the Decrees of the Orthodox Fathers we know we ought to follow But what euer commeth besides come it from whom it will we know how to reiect and to controll it Last of all if in this answer there be any thing misbeseeming me or you you haue forced me thereunto Such were the letters which passed betweene king Charles the Bauld and Adrian the second though he had giuen him not long before some hope to make him Emperour though any other would giue him bushels of gold Baron vol. 10. an 871. art 79. offering him indeed an Empire but as he did in the desart vpon condition That he would fall down and worship him And this Charles was he which a few yeares before An. 853. first made a breach vpon the liberties of the French Synods when about the yeare 853 hauing held a Synod at Soissons two or three yeares after he sent the Acts thereof to Benedict the third thinking onely to gratifie him and neuer considering vnto what consequence his successors might draw the same Our French Bishops wrot much after the same maner vpon the same argument vnto Adrian being assembled in Synod at Dousy wherein they call him Primae Sedis Papam complaining That they were vtterly mistaken and casting the fault vpon his multitude of other businesses that he had not more maturely considered of their Acts which were in all points agreeing with the holie Canons As for the Excommunication which Adrian thundered out against this Charls we could wish we had his owne Epistle in answer to it but Hincmars the Archbishop of Reimes we haue who receiued command from the Pope to pronounce it and we will here produce the principall clauses thereof And first of all hauing complained of many grieuous reproofes and menaces receiued he declareth vnto him That he had imparted the tenor of his letters to the great ones and Prelats of the kingdome and which was more had caused them to be openly read in an assemblie of Bishops of France and Lorraine and had shewed Lewis king of Germanie the aboue mentioned letter wherein he was commaunded by Adrian to excommunicat by his authoritie all those who attempted any thing vpon the kingdome of Lotharius deceased I vnderstand saith he Qui de regno eius estis that like letters haue beene sent to the glorious king Lewis and to the great ones and Bishops of his kingdome which you who are his naturall borne subiect should best know But comming afterwards to the matter he letteth him to vnderstand That he is informed by diuers that the two kings had agreed to diuide this kingdome equally betweene them without which the people had long ere this beene vp in armes That therefore hee knoweth not what to doe seeing he must either disobey his commaund or disallow of the treatie and accord made betweene the two kings That whereas he saith That no man better than himselfe knoweth the great wrong which Charles doth herein he plainely telleth him That in case he did know yet would hee not thereupon doe any thing seeing that Charles confesseth no such matter of himselfe neither standeth he legally or canonically conuict thereof But rather protesteth and many there are which beare him witnesse That this part of the kingdome of Lorraine was by the consent and assent as well of the Bishops as of the great ones of the Empire giuen him by his father Lewis and confirmed to him by oath by his brother Lotharius That therefore he taketh that Canon of the Councell of Afrike to be spoken to him as well as to all other Bishops whereby men are forbidden to lay a crime to a mans charge which he is not able to euict by proofes because as S. Augustine who was there present saith Manie things are true which yet a Iudge may not beleeue without sufficient proofes That he hath no power to put anie man from the Communion for a crime neither confessed by the defendant nor proued by the informer That otherwise they should make themselues both judges and accusers which were not lawfull alledging for his authoritie the rule of the Apostle and the practise of the Church with sundrie places out of Augustin Gelasius Boniface and others And whereas he is charged by him as a partaker or rather author of this vnjust inuasion because he held his peace and stirred not as he was commaunded his answere is That Adrian should remember that it was written The cause which I vnderstood not I searched out with diligence and that Gregorie sayth That God to whose eyes all things are open yet in the verie case of Sodome sayth Descendum videbo I will goe downe and see to teach vs to be well informed before we beleeue a fault And whereas he commaundeth him to seperate himselfe from Charles and not to bid him so much as Good morrow whereas yet he desireth to be receiued to the Communion of Adrian that this toucheth him to the heart and that manie men of great sort both secular and Clergie now met at Rheimes hauing heard this commaund say that the like was neuer heard of to be sent from Rome though in their dayes there had beene warres before this time not onely betweene confederat Kings but also betweene the brothers and betweene the father and the sonnes That for his owne part he must needs thinke that this displeasure is befallen him for his other sinnes seeing it fareth better with some others who haue not doubted to call Charles into the kingdome of Lorraine That for the rest the Parliament of that kingdome sayth That Popes and Bishops excommunications are no titles to claime kingdomes by That the Scripture teacheth that

this right belongeth vnto God by whom Kings reigne and who giueth them to whom it pleaseth him That the Pope cannot be King and Bishop all at once That therefore he should doe well to leaue the disposing of state matters vnto them and not commaund them to take a king from a farre off who cannot be at hand to helpe vpon all occasion against the Painims this being a yoke which the Popes neuer before layed vpon the neckes of their ancestors and such as themselues could not beare seeing they were commanded in holie Scripture for their heritage and libertie to fight while the breath was in their bodie That one needeth not to tell them that a Bishop who excommunicateth a man contrarie to law loseth the power which he had of binding That none can take heauen from anie man saue onely from him which loseth it by his sinne That for earthlie respects none can take away the title of a Christian or lodge with the diuell him for whom Christ died to free him from the bondage of the diuell That therefore if the Pope desire peace he should do well to seeke it by quiet meanes because they neuer meane to make it an Article of their Creed That they cannot come to heauen vnlesse they will receiue for their King him whom he shall appoint them here in earth And saith he manie such like inconueniences they shew vnto vs as murders seditions warres all which will ensue if we goe to infringe the accord alreadie made betweene the Kings not sparing to vtter threats against your selfe which I will not rehearse and such as if God giue them leaue they purpose to put in execution neither can my excommunication nor the sword of anie humane tongue stay the King and his Barons from the course they haue set to run Thus it pleased this great Prelat to let the Pope vnderstand his mind as in the words and vnder the name of the Great ones which he could not handsomely doe in his owne Last of all concerning himselfe That being in the kingdome of Charles and in the chiefe Citie of his diocesse whether the king and all the princes of either kingdome vsed to resort he might not offer like an hireling to leaue his flocke and to goe hee knew not whither And that therefore he would attend vpon the king and such as were about him to the end he might passe his time in quietnesse with his flock and that the king saith His predecessors haue had this power which hee will not forgoe for any excommunication whatsoeuer and that therefore it behoueth the Bishops himselfe especially to consider how they carrie themselues towards the king seeing that Augustine expounding that place of the Apostle saith That the Apostle teacheth that euery soule must be subiect to the higher power and that we must giue to euerie one that which belongeth to him tribute to whom tribute custome to whom custome appertaineth c. This letter thus written with the aduise and counsell of all the Bishops assembled at Reimes was sent to Adrian who died the yeare following 872 and so the quarrell ended 34. PROGRESSION How the Pope conferred the Empire vpon Charles the Bald and of the donation of Constantine AFter Adrian the second according to Platina his account succeeded Iohn the ninth according to those who reject the shee-Pope Iohn the eight in the yeare 873 and in the yeare 875 died the Emperour Lewis without issue An. 873. wherefore Charles of France and Lewis of Germanie began to stirre and Italie her selfe was not quiet one calling Charles the Bald of Fraunce and others Charles the Grosse sonne to King Lewis Sigon de Reg. Jtal. lib. 5. and some there were who faine would haue established the Empire in Italie and these were the Earles of Tusculana who at that time strucke a great stroake in Rome He of France was first in a readinesse Aimoni. li. 5. c. 32. 33. who euer since the dayes of Nicholas the first had entertained secret intelligences in Italie he therefore sent embassadors to Iohn with great presents and greater promises assuring him That vpon condition he will set the Crowne of the Empire vpon his head he would protect the Church from all wrongs and leaue the Seignorie of Rome wholly in his hands Iohn who could better brooke a foreiner than a neighbor and a stranger than a domestike Emperour who peraduenture would haue dimmed his light by a greater lustre bid him come and welcome and at his comming to Rome receiued and crowned him Emperour From that day forward saith Sigonius the title of the Empire began to be a meere feoffment of the Popes Sincerum Pontificis beneficium and the yeares of the Empire to be reckoned from the day wherein they receiued their consecration from the Popes But a certaine Author of that time addeth farther That Charles of France comming to Rome renewed his couenants with the Romanes Eutropij Continuator gaue vp into their hands the rights and customes of the kingdome with the reuenues of manie Monasteries giuing them moreouer the countries of Samnium and Calabria with all the townes belonging to Beneuent with the Duchie of Spoleto and the two Cities of Tuscanie which the Duke was wont to hold Arrezzo and Chiusi so that he who before that time commaunded in Rome for the Emperour was now become as subiect vnto them quitted them from expecting the presence of his embassadors at the election of their Popes To be short sayth he he accorded what euer they demaunded as commonly men vse to be liberall of what they haue ill gotten or feare they shall not long keepe That which made Charles the more pliant to the Pope was that Lewis of Germanie inuaded him in his owne person in France and sent his sonne Charles the Grosse to crosse his designes in Italie But saith that Author this is certaine that from that day no King or Emperour euer recouered the state and Port of a King in Italie for want still either of skill or of courage and by reason of the great contentions and daily iealousies among them Here the Historians and Sigonius himselfe obserueth that whatsoeuer the Emperours predecessors of Charles gaue vnto the Pope yet they euer reserued to themselues the Proprietie Soueraignetie and Lordship euen ouer the Exarchat and Duchie of Rome it selfe which rule began now to faile in Charles though his successors sometimes redemanded their auncient prerogatiues and rights also that vntill this time the Empire euer passed as hereditarie from the father to the sonne and the suruiuor euer seised of the Empire by the death of the deceased So Charlemaigne succeeded Pepin so after Charlemaigne succeeded Lewis after Lewis Lotharius and after him Lewis the second So also vnto this time their crowning and sacring by the Archbishops of Milan for the kingdome of Lumbardie and the Bishops of Rome for the Empire serued onely for pompe and solemnitie But this Pope Iohn tooke

53. 54. There a certaine bishop of Arragon a great Doctour of Diuinitie in a solemne Sermon chose for his text that of the Apostle Purge the old leauen c. wherein he feared not to say That they were no more Popes than his old shooes worse than Annas and Carphas yea to be compared to the Diuels of hell Whereby let the Reader judge of those Archbishops Prelats that he ordayned and of those things that by them were done whom he ordayned The selfesame is to be read in the letters of the Embassadours of the Vniuersitie of Paris to their Lords and Masters That the neutrallitie and subtraction of obedience was good and lawfull and the processe and sentences of the competitors against those that had withdrawne themselues iustly pronounced to be of no force Approuing in all respects the sentence of the Vniuersitie As there is likewise extant the definitiue sentence against both the contendants for their horrible sinnes and a reuocation of all their acts in the yeare last past with the Epistle of Alexander the fifth to the Bishop of Paris Cap. 67. who expresly pronounced them the enemies of God and his Church for their grieuous and horrible notorious sinnes Iohn the foure and twentieth alias the three and twentieth the successour of Alexander in the yeare 1410 sent his Legats namely the Archbishop of Pisa to demaund the Tenthes due in the vacancie procurations and mortuaries An. 1410. Bochell l. 2. Decret Eccles Gallicanae p. 323.324 Jdem l. 4 p. 51.52.53 54.55.56 ex ijsdem The Vniuersitie assembled at the Bernerdins the three and twentieth of Nouember and calling vnto them such Prelats as were then at Paris concluded that those Lawes and ordinances aboue mentioned made in the yeare 1406 were to be defended that is to say That the Church of Fraunce was freed from all tenthes procurations and other subsidies and annuities whatsoeuer And if the Pope or his Legats shall constrain any man by ecclesiastical censure to pay them that it shold be lawfull to appeale from them to a generall Councell And if any of the collectors shall goe about to exact them they are to be punished with the losse of their goods if they haue any if not with imprisonment They humblie besought the king and the Councell thus to determine the matter and his Proctor generall to joyne with the sayd Vniuersitie But if the Pope should alledge some manifest necessitie of the Church that a Councell should be called wherein some charitable subsidie should be determined of which honest men chosen by the Councell should gather and being gathered by the authoritie thereof distribute it The Munday following there was called a royall Councell where the Archbishop deliuered vnto them That what he demaunded was due to the Apostolike chamber by law Diuine canon ciuile and naturall which whomsoeuer should denie to pay was no Christian Let the Reader here note the definition of a Christian The Rector interrupting him affirmed That these words were pronounced to the dishonour of the king and the Vniuersitie and consequently of the whole realme Wherefore the thirtieth of Nouember he called a generall congregation wherein it was agreed to send Orators to the king to request that the Legat might be commaunded to reuoke his words and if he should refuse to doe it that then the professours graduats of Diuinitie and Law should write against him vpon the Articles of the faith That both he and his Colleagues might according to their desart be punished That they would likewise write to all other Vniuersities and Prelats to ioyne with them in this controuersie and to the Archbishop of Rheimes likewise and others of the kings grand Councell to that purpose who haue bin sworne to the sayd Vniuersitie otherwise to be depriued that dignitie Whereupon the Popes Legats departed without taking their leaue Neuerthelesse the Pope is nothing at all herewith discomfited but sendeth his Legats againe to the king to require the Tenths imposed vpon Fraunce who pronounced in the kings Councell the duke of Aquitan being present That not only the Church of Fraunce but all others whatsoeuer were bound to this subsidie not onely by the positiue law but also by the law of God The Vniuersitie withstood it and in a congregation concluded That the manner in demaunding this subsidie was to be reproued as vniust and contrarie to the law before made in the yeare 1406 which they were resolued to defend And if the Pope or his Legats should proceed any farther that they would then appeale to the generall Councell of the Church and if the gouernours of the new king and kingdome should attempt any thing against the sayd law they would appeale to the king and the Lords of his Councell And if any of the Vniuersitie it selfe should goe about to gather these tenthes he was to lose his rights and priuiledges if other his temporalties if he had any if not to suffer imprisonment But if the Pope by way of charitie would gather this money then the Vniuersitie would beseech his Maiestie that the Prelats of the kingdome might be called to deliberat First What was to be handled in the next generall Councell Secondly What answer was to be made to the supplication of the Popes Legats Monstrelet vol. 1. c. 67. So that if a subsidy should be granted that it might be gathered by some chosen honest men of the kingdome for the vnion of the Greekes and Latines the peace of the kingdome of England the recouerie of Palestina and for the preaching of the Gospell to all creatures since these were the ends for which the Pope as his owne Legats did affirme did leuie this subsidie In all which they humbly beseech the Lords of the Parliament and the kings Proctors to yeeld them their helping hand and to joyne with them Whereupon the Archbishop of Pisa carried himselfe more humbly towards the Vniuersitie and began to flatter the principall amongst them that hee might win them to deale more mildly with him but it was to small purpose for the Vniuersitie continued still constant though the greater part of the Nobles yea the Princes themselues began to faint in their resolutions An. 1416. Here is fit place to speake of the Councell of Constance wherein in the yeare 1416 a bill was exhibited in the name of the Church of France and the Vniuersitie of Paris called Apostoli because Charles the sixt by a Decree of the Court of Parliament and an Edict following thereupon had forbid annuities to be paid It was otherwise called De Annatis non soluendis Which bill was so much the more necessarie because the Cardinals going about to put downe the Antipopes endeuoured neuerthelesse to retaine their gaineful arts and inuentions especially these annuities which their promoters with their reasons likewise defended There it was disputed by our Diuines That those annuities were not due either by the law of God or man That they were extraordinarily granted to

the defence thereof insomuch as the glosse of the Pragmaticall sanction teacheth vs that neither Sixtus nor his successors Innocent the eight nor Alexander the sixt could euer bring to effect those decrees which they made in preiudice thereof which are mentioned in the first chapter of the Extrauagant de treuga et pace Pragmat tit de collat paragr Quod si cuiuscumque status in verbo quatuor ibi Glossa But the constitutions of Lewis the eleuenth Pope Sixtus being otherwise to himselfe indulgent ynough are worthie the noting One dated the eight of Ianuarie in the yeare 1475 wherein hee sheweth that by vertue of the generall Councels of Constance and Basil approued by the Pope and Cardinals note these words it is resolued to require Pope Sixtus to hold a Councell wherein order may bee taken for prouision against the inuasion of the Turke the daunger of the Schismes the abuse of Simonie in Christendome wherefore hee commaundeth all the nobilitie of the kingdome and the Prelates with other the chiefe of the Clergie to prepare themselues and to bee readie at hand when they shall bee called This Sanction was read in the Parliament the same yeare the fiue and twentieth of Ianuarie Hee could not haue curbed his furie with a stronger bridle The verie same day there was another published whereby such as remained at Rome were commaunded within the space of fiue monethes to returne into France and to reside vpon their charges and benefices according to the Canons and if they obeyed not to bee punished with the losse of their temporalties bridling both the head and the members by the same authoritie There was likewise another the same day by which all the Gouernours of cities and other the kings magistrates were commaunded diligently to search and enquire for all such of what conditions soeuer that were returned from Rome and to cause them to deliuer vnto them their letters Bulls and other expeditions and to giue knowledge thereof to the king if there bee cause If the like should be done in these daies who would not take it for heresie There followed another in the yeare 1476 dated the third of September and the seuenth exhibited to the Parliament That no Abbot Prior Religious person or any other of what estate nation condition soeuer shall presume or dare to goe to the conuocation houses of the Cistersians Clugny Charthusians or any other either generall or prouinciall without the kingdome and those countries that are subiect to the kings obedience vnder paine to the religious neuer to obtaine or possesse any benefice to the begging Friars besides banishment the vtter extirpation of all the religious of the order of those who haue done the contrarie and that for this cause least they should practise any thing with strangers to the hurt of the Commonwealth Now I would faine know in what case they are who haue no other Generals but strangers and are bound to hold their Chapters without the realme There was another the 16 of Agust in the yeare 1478 at what time the Earle Hieronimo by the commaund of Sixtus had in vaine attempted Florence and the Florentines were interdicted for punishing the traitors Our holie Father saith he hath bewrayed his hatred too much against the Commonweales of Florence and Venice by which meanes he fortifieth the Turke and openeth the gate vnto him to inuade Christendome turnes those moneyes that were destinated to the seruice of God the defence of our faith the reliefe of the poore to the maintenance of his conspiracies and that money which he is suffered to exact in Christendome hee bestowes vpon men of base condition to encrease their greatnesse c. But see what he decrees And therfore saith he we forbid all persons as well temporall as ecclesiastical either to goe or send to the Court of Rome to procure any benefices to send thither any money or to take order by way of exchange or otherwise to pay it there vpon paine of death and losse of goods c. And moreouer we giue all their mouables houshold-stuffe and horses to whomsoeuer shall giue notice of any that shall offend in this kind Our Courts of Parliament therefore which so gladly published these constitutions yea our Sorbonists that approued them were they then all heretikes We read likewise that in the assembblie held at Tours by Charls the 8 the son of Lewis M. Iohn Rhely Doctor in Diuinitie and Canon of the Church of Paris spake in the name of the French Clergie beseeching him to maintaine the Pragmaticall sanction in all points according to the Councell of Constance and Basil not permitting any thing that might be preiudicial thereunto Whether it were by reseruations prouisions Apostolical expected graces to the preiudice of elections and prouisions of ordinaries annuities petie seruices c. or by Citations of the Court of Rome Ecclesiastical censures which distract the subiects causing them to wander and the like which he easily obtained without any resistance But that which is reported by Monstrelet Monstrelet vol. 3. in nouis Chron. touching the authority which this Charls exercised at Rome euen to the face of Alexander the sixt passeth all the rest He made knowne saith he that his power was so great in Rome that he caused three or foure gallowes to be erected and did hang and behead certaine theeues murtherers and other malefactors in Campo florido and others according to the qualitie of their offence to be beaten with rods drowned punished with the losse of their eares to shew that like a true sonne of the Church and a Christian king he had a mixt and a sole Empire at Rome no lesse than at Paris and other the cities of France Thus saith Monstrelet a writer of that time 65 PROGRESSION The preposterous election of Iulius the second his treacherous practises and cruell malitious nature and how in his owne person he marched to the besieging of Mirandula and Ferrara Of the pompe and stately coronation of Iohn de Medicis called Leo the tenth and of the monstrous abuse of Indulgences in his time ALexander being dead a new successor was to be thought vpon Borgia though he were very sick was yet a great stickler in the election relying himselfe vpon the helpe of the Spanish Cardinals But on the other side the Cardinall of Ambois presuming vpon the fauour of the French Cardinals and the power of the armie withstood him The Cardinals neuerthelesse saith Guicciardine according to their custome looking euer into their owne benefit for it is that spirit that properly beares rule in those Conclaues These therefore partly by reason of their owne auarice partly the one side hindring the other by reason of this emulation make choice of neither but chuse Francis Picolhuomini called Pius the third a man verie old and then sick rather to spend some time than that they had any hope of his Popedome for within 26 dayes after he died after whose death besides and