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A10614	A treatise conteining two parts 1 An exhortation to true loue, loyaltie, and fidelitie to her Maiestie. 2 A treatise against treasons, rebellions, and such disloyalties. Written by Michael Renniger.	Renniger, Michael, 1530-1609.	1587 (1587)	STC 20888; ESTC S106425	154,771	309

of Vrsperg proceedeth in his answere to Bishop Otto Such things also saith he otherwhere and in our times haue bin seen to be done yet though the Roman Bishops doe ascribe and take to themselues the doing thereof we find saith he these things to bee done by diuine iudgement the sinnes of Emperors so requiring Princes and people vniting themselues to resist them Heere hee rippeth vp the roote out of which such actions grow the diuine iudgement for sinnes of the Emperors stirryng vp Princes and people against them and that the Bishop of Rome doth but take it on as if hee by cursinges did cut of Emperors Princes from their estates and carued out kingdomes at his pleasure The Abbat to his former saying putteth two examples the one of Fredericke the first Emperor of that name Frederick the first who was excomminged cursed of the popes Hadrian and Alexander and other there successors yet neuer lost the Empire So Philip the sonne of the same Frederick Philip the Emperor notwithstanding the cursings of Celestin the 3. about our time saith the Abbat neuer lost the Empire Thus the Abbat voucheth these exaÌ„ples to shew that Emperors and Princes though excomminged of Popes yet notwithstanding kept their soueraignties estates kingdoms Emperors excoÌ„minged of popes kepe their empires as Frederick Philip and manie other And hereof we haue a mirrour of the great mercie of God in the heauenly happie light of his word Queene Elizabeth in Elizabeth our Soueraigne sent of God who by diuine prouidence notwithstanding the cursings of proud Popes not onelie keepeth her royall right and seat but for their cruell curses hath receiued bouÌ„tiful blessings of God not only shewed on her Royal person but on the whole Realme Euen right as the Prophet Dauid saith Though they curse Psal 109. yet thou shalt blesse they shall arise and bee confounded but thy Seruant shall reioyce God giue all subiects grace with true hearts to pray to God that he will turne their cruel curses into aboundance of blessinges on her Royall person and estate and his Church and our whole Countrie Thus what time chieflie the Roman Bishops began to practise suche things against Christian Emperors and princes of Bishop Otto his protestation of the Abbat of Vrsperg his answere how by diuine prouidence notwithstanding the cursing of popes christian Emperors haue kept their soueraignties estates and Realmes heretofore The 3. chiefe point of the first matter The third chiefe matter of my first part is by what means the Bishops of Rome doe manage and carrie on their practises THE vsuall meanes of their practises is after their cursing to set on Subiects against their Princes Greg. 7. Rodol Duke of Sueuia as Gregorie the 7. did set on Duke Rodolph of Sueuia or as Platina noteth of Saxonie or as Vincentius of Burgundy or as Cuspinian CouÌ„tie of Reinfield to rebell against Henry the 4. Emperor his Soueraigne and not only subiectes but the sonne to rebell against his owne father as Henry the 5. Henricus 5. against Henry the 4. Emperor of the name his own father In these two exaÌ„ples as glasses set before vs wee may see the treacherie and practise of the Bishops of Rome against Christian Emperours and Princes Briefly I will set down the first touching the rebellion of Duke Rodolph against Henrie the 4. The exaÌ„ples of Duke Rodolph and Henry the 5. and his repentance for it The latter example I will lay foorth at large because it is a notable storie to set foorth the horrible treasons vnnatural warres and raging rebellioÌ„s not only of subiects but of the sonne against his own father Soueraigne Lord vpon pretence of the Popes excoÌ„minging cursing the father for executing of the popes curse And therfore in the Popes cause it is counted pietie though it be ioyned with treason rebellioÌ„ vnnaturall outrage against his own father Touching the first example of Rodulph against Henry the fourth I will note his setting on his rebellion Duke Rodolph his setting on to rebellion and after his repentance He was set on to falsifie his faith and to rebell against Henry the fourth by Pope Gregorie the 7. called Hildebrand the monk before and to pul him on to this troublesome action with all hee sent him a Crowne or diademe with this posie or word Alb. Cranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 7. Albertus reporting it Petra dedit Romain Petro tibi Papa coronam The rocke that is Christ gaue Rome to Peter the Pope hath giuen the Crowne to thee Thus he allured him to trayterous rebellion against his Prince to whom he had sworne fidelitie Now of his rebellion Euil chiued the Crowne that Pope Gregorie had sent him Henry the fourth whom the Pope had cursed notwithstanding wore and bare the Crowne by Gods prouidence giuen to him Rodolph that of the Pope receiued the Crown could not escape notwithstanding the curse wrath and iudgment of God in this worlde for his periurie treason and rebellion against his Prince but that he repented in the ende So whom the Pope cursed God blessed Rodolphos Rebellion The sequel of the rebellion Whom the Pope blessed God cursed Touching the sequele of the action in this world Rodolph with the Popes blessings spedde euill Henry the Emperor with the Popes curse wan the field Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. Rodolph discomfited hauing his right hand cut off as the Abbat of Vrsperg reporteth it was carried out of the battaile to Morisburg and straight after died Alber. KraÌ„z. Saxoniae lib. 5. cap. 5. Albert telleth that he was carried out of the field to Herbipolis wounded in the right hand whereof he dyed Thus of Duke Rodolph his rebellion Duke Rodolph his repentance Now let vs heare of his repentance WheÌ„ Duke Rodolph sawe the stump of his hand he said to them that set him on there present This same is the right hand with which I haue sworne fidelitie to my Lorde Abbas Vrspergensis in chro Behold now I leaue my life with his reigne See you to it which made me clime to this place should haue led me the right way following your aduertisementes Thus wofully he moued himselfe to the Bishops that set him on Alb. Cranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 7. Albert thus reporteth it that he sent for the nobles Bishops of his side to Herbipolis elata dextra in astantes and lifting vp his hand saith he to those that stood by Duke Rodolph his dolefull mone for his rebellion this is the right haÌ„d with the which I sware to Henry my Lord but by your vrging so oft with such euil hap I haue fought against him goe fulfill your fidelitie to your king for I shal goe the way of my fathers so he died Thus the rufull words of Duke Rodolph repenting his rebellion before the nobles Bishops of his side His conscience not onely his right

rer memora additis Ab. Vrsperg and said for his excuse that hee did he did prouoked of vs before and he would haue reuoked the curse but that hee was coped and kepte in against his owne liking Clemens 6. Clemens the 6. blowed vp the fire which Benedict his predecessour would haue quenched And euen at the Lordes supper he cursed the Emperor as Cuspinian writeth Io. Cusp in vita Ludou As Iudas was at the Lordes supper that betrayed his maister But notwithstanding the curses of Popes Ludouick reigned about 37. yeeres as Cuspinian accounteth Alber. Cranz Saxo. Lib. 8. cap. 22. and hee ouerliued two of the Popes that cursed him and hee dyed not without suspition of poyson as Albert. reporteth Philip the Emperour Philippe the Emperour about the yeere of our Lorde God 1198. as Vrspergensis accounteth is praysed of him for a milde and gentle Prince valiant in warres at chiof him with good successe yet because hee was not currant in the fauour of Pope Innocent the third Ab. Vrsperg in gest Phil. first hee vrged an excommunication of Pope Celestine against him And after by his practise and other Emperour called Otto was sette vppe against him but Philippe by treason ended his life in the ende Then Pope Innocent fell a cursing of Otto also Otto the Emperour whom as his darling he had Crowned before Thus a common practise it is with Popes to make quarrels to curse Princes if they stand not in their grace and bee not at their deuotions and if they make not their composition with them Philip the Emperour As Philippe the Emperour was ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ come to composition with Pope Innocent the third Abbas Vrsperg in titulo de bellis Philippi by Ambassadours sent for that purpose who promised a mariage betweene the kinges daughter and the Popes brothers sonne for reconcilement of Phillippe to the Popes grace as Vrspergensis vowcheth of the reporte of credible men Frederick the first Emperour of that name Frider. the 1. was fayne to put a masse of gould into Pope Hadrian his mouth to make his composition with him by his solliciters for the recalling of his curse against him Ab. Vrsperg ex cremoneÌ„s and for reconcilement to him As the Abbat of Vrsperg out of the Cremonensis called Iohn the Priest rehearseth Otherwise if suit be not made for reconcilement and composition with them the common enginne and practise of Popes against Princes is to drawe out the banning blade vppon them As Hornets haue their stinges and Scorpians their tayles so the common enginne of Popes reuenge vppon Princes is their excomminging and cursing of them Saxo Craâ— Hist Danâ—s lib. 14. Saxo the wryter of the Danes storie sayeth the Bishoppes reuenge is his curse And the same Pope Innocent the third afore rehearsed didde drawe his banning blade vppon king Iohn of England King Iohn of England Fabian the 7 parte in anno 1212. Phil. le Bewa king of Fran. Who was fayne ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ make his composition with Pandolph his Legate to pay a yeerely fee to the Pope of a thousand markes for the Realmes of Englande and Ireland and as his Feodarie to houlde the Crowne of him Boniface the eight did proceede in like sorte to cursing and banning of Philippe surnamed the fayre Ro. Gag in annalibus regum Fran. lib. 7. king of Fraunce but he in the steed of coÌ„position suborned Sarra the Italian and sent Nogaretus a French man to his aid and at Anagnia sodenly they surprised the Pope by force of armes and brought him to Rome where with chafe and greefe he died Gagwine generall of the order of the holy Trinitie in Fraunce Bonifacius 8 in his storie saith of Pope Boniface that being too proud he priued Philip of his kingdome and gaue it to Albert Duke of Ostrige together with the Empire of Germanie And after the same Gagwine had told of the taking of the Pope and of his death he saith Such an end of his life had Bonifacius the despiser of all men who without remembring the commaundementes of Christ went about to take away and to giue kingdomes at his pleasure Rob. Gagwins iudgement of Bonifacius 8. when he was not ignorant that hee occupied his place on earth whose kingdome was not of this world and of earthly thinges but heauenly Thus farre father Gagwin as they call him the generall of his order We see the Pope is sent into Christes schoole of his own deuout disciple as father Gagwin was and the birdes of his owne nest are readye to scratch out his eyes What treason was this against the Popes person and power to say that he remembred not the commaundements of Christ while he went about to take away and to geue kingdomes at his pleasure And yet he calleth him selfe Christes Vicar His kingdome was not not of wordly thinges but heauenly Thus father Gagwin who was in the Popes own bosome for his Religion yet is a witnesse against his vsurped power pride and tyranny in deposing of Princes and disposing of kingdomes And turneth them into Christes schoole whose Vicars they professe theÌ„selues to bee to learne an other lesson of him whose kingdome was not of earthly but heauenly thinges Thus of banning Bonifacius his ende and father Gagwines witnesse against the vsurped power of Popes in taking away and giuinge the kingdomes of the earth Paulus 2. Clemens 5. Paulus the second excomminged and cursed George kinge of Beme and Clemens the fifte the Venetians the Florentines and them ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ Luke and diuers other Popes haue cursed and banned many other Princes and people And euen yet they blush not in the light of the Gospell to do the like as they were wont to do in darkenesse and in the night of grosse idolatrie and ignorance they cannot hould themselues but if Princes reuolt from their viâ—due obedience and hee reclaymed from their idolatrous errors then they fall to managings their cursings bannings in the names of Peter and Paul by whose doctrine their vsurped power and tyranny is condemned Thus of the vsuall enginne of the Bishoppe of Rome commonly vsed of them in contriuing and managing of practises of treason and rebellion against Christian Princes and Realmes which is their excomminging and cursing of them The 2. chiefe point of the first matter The second point and matter of my first parte is at what time chieflie the Bishoppe of Rome beganne to vse this engine of excommunicating and cursing of Princes and Realmes and practising of such treasons and rebellions gainst them OTto Bishoppe of Frising a famous writer of Cronicles Otto Bishop of Frising and of great account in the Church of Rome in his storie writeth that before Henry the fourth Emperour of that name hee could neuer finde Roman Emperour or king to haue beene excomminged and cursed of any Bishoppe of Rome This Otto by parentage was of the blood imperiall by his mothers side before hee was a

Gregorie the seueÌ„th famous sorcerers and inchaunters were Bishops of Rome and that there was striefe betweene Syluester the seconde disciples in the diuelish art who shoulde succeed in the place This Gregorie the 7. was reputed also in the Brixian Councell Brixian couÌ„cell to bee a Negromancer to worke by a Familiar And before him as Otto the aforesaide Bishop saide hee neuer could reade that any Romane Bishop did excoÌ„minge and curse the Romane Emperor and King Otto Frisin Episc So that this practise of Popes against christian Emperours and Princes according to his vouching beganne much about that time when Sathan was loosed from his chaine out of the bottomlesse pit to goe about to deceiue the people in the foure quarters of the earth he took possession about that time in Bishops of Rome in the Sea of Rome which were Negromancers and Sorcerers as Syluester the seconde and other his successors amongest them and about those times was Gregorie the seuenth Grego 7. who was the first as Otto pronounceth of his experience in the Romane stories that excoÌ„minged and cursed a Roman Emperor and king and priued him of his kingdome Yet notwithstanding Henrie the 4. thus excominged and cursed af Gregorie the 7. raigned about 50. yeeres sawe Greg. the aforesaid cut off with his curses Vrban the second likewise that followed him Thus about that time the Diuell let loose raged in the Romane Sea and Bishops against Christian Emperors Princes with cursing and banning of them and priuing theÌ„ of their Empires forgetting that they call themselues his Vicars whose kingdome as Gagwin the deuout father and writer of their owne side said was not of worldly things but heauenly things Then followed such diuision and discord in Christendom and such outrage of rebellion warres and bloodshed as Bishop Otto greeuing at the very rehearsall thereof saith Otto Frisin Episc ana li. 6. cap. 36. that a certain Ecclesiasticall writer compareth those times to the most vglie darknes of Egipt And the Abbat of Vrsperg saith that vnder Hildebrand the Monke called Gregorie the 7. Ab. Vrsperg in Chron. in an 1072. who excomminged and cursed first Henrie the 4. Romana respulbica omnis ecclesia nouis inauditis scismatum erroribus periclitari caepit The coÌ„mon wealth of Rome and the whole Church began to be pluÌ„ged in perils and errors of new scismes such as were neuer heard of before And the bishoppes that were present in the Councell of Wormes The councell of Wormes charge him with abuse of noueltie What maruaile when he was the first in Bishop Otto his iudgement which took on him to excomminge curse a Roman Emperor to priue him of his kingdome And whereas it belonged to the right of the Emperours to confirme the Roman Bishop after he was elected before the Emperors confirmation ratifiyng the election he was not couÌ„ted right Bishop of Rome as Cusp saith speaking of Grego Io. Cuspin in vita Henr. 4. the 7. his time Mos enim tuÌ„ erat PoÌ„tifices ab Imperatoribus confirmari vt superius saepe annotauimus For the custome then was that Bishops of Rome shuld c yet this Gregorie the 7. The Imperiall right to confirme the Bishop of Rome elected contrary to custome right of the Emperors rushed into the Roman sea wtout confirmatioÌ„ of the Emperor but assoone as he was warm in the sea hee began to curse ban the Emperor whose confirmation he should haue had to haue been the right bishop of the sea Therof began to spring spread great scismes diuisions in Christendome when not only the right of the Emperors was violently encroched of the Bishop of Rome but also he fell a cursing and banning the Emperor whose confirmation he should haue had What did the Diuell about the time loosed out of the bottomlesse pit more desire The Diuell raged by disobedience in the Bishops of Rome then to tread vnder feet the ordinance of God by wilfull disobedience outrage against ChristiaÌ„ Princes by cursing theÌ„ for whom they shoulde pray by stirring rebellions ciuill warres against them setting their owne subiects to be contrary to them to take a contrarie course to the ordinance of God Thus after 1000. yeeres the Diuell did rage in the Roman Bishops against the supreame soueraignties states in christeÌ„dom shewed himself directly contrary in them to the great ordinance of God If it were the ordinarie right of the Empire to confirm the bishops of Rome as the continual course continuance therof in such a number of his predicessors bishops of Rome the witnes of their own writers is plain euideÌ„ce therof wherfore should Hildebrand called Gregorie the 7. Gregorie the 7. an intruder without confirmation of the Emperor of a Monk ArchdeacoÌ„ before intrude himselfe into the sea of Rome wtout confirmatioÌ„ of Hen. the 4. Emperor not only rent away the vsuall right of the Empire but also rent the Empire and Christendome with rebellions ciuill warres bloodshed treasons and such like outrages and rent the Emperor himselfe from his Empire life also by cursing and banning him and stirring vp his own subiects to rebel against him and of his life and Empire to bereaue him Thus the Romane Bishop or rather the Diuell raging in the Romane Bishop turneth the regiment and state of Christendome vpside downe and began a contrary course to the right of the Emperiall regiment and custome of confirmations heretofore For to Henry the 4. by his imperial right the confirmation of Gregorie the 7. to be Bishop of Rome did appertaine Gregorie the 7. so far is from recognising that right to which so many his predecessors stouped Gregorie the 7. summoneth Henrie the 4. to apparance and answere that as Lucifer mounting about all estates not onely he shaketh his necke out of the collor but imperiouslie citeth and by presumptuous processe calleth for the Emperor to make his apparance before him to put in answere to causes to be obiected to him els vnlesse he stoupe to his commaunds to whose confirmation hÃ¨e should haue stouped himself he shuld be cursed and priued of the Empire This was so vnquoth and strange attempt that Otto freelie confesseth hee neuer read the like by any Romane Byshop doone to the Romane Emperor and king before Ab. Vrsperg in an 1072. The Abbat of Vrsperg saith that because without consent of the king hee pressed to bee Pope by fauour of the Romanes some held that hee was not lawfullie placed but that like a tyrant he vsurped Thus the Abbat himselfe mentioneth the great gall of Gregorie the 7. his proude Popedome which began with presumption proceeded to cursing ended with great bloodshed in christendome Cuspinian also reporteth the same Plerique saith hee illum sine regis consensu non agnouerunt legittime electum Io. Cusp in vita Hen. 4. after he had

liued in this fleshe who said that he payed not as a debter but lest he should offend them And Nicholaus de Lyra the famous fryer and writer of postiles vpon the text speaking of those that vnder pretence of Religion would claime freedome and exemption for not paying tribute Nico. de Lyra in Postilla in 1. Pet. 2 sayth Retinendo illud quod debebatur dominis temporalibus committebant furtum By retaining or withholding that saith he that to temporall Lords was due they committed theft Thus much of my fourth and last note also Hereby appeareth howe wee should frame our affections and obedienee to the higher powers according to the rules of the worde of God And if our Sauiour and his Apostles thus gaue in charge to Christians liuing vnder Heathen Princes as Tiberius Caligula Tiberius Caligulae Claudius Nero. Claudius and Nero the Emperours amongest whom Nero was the first persecutor of the faith of Christe as Tertullian saith Orientem fidem primus Nero cruentauit Tertul. lib. cont Gnostiâ— Nero saith he first embrued with blood the faith of Christ in the first springing vp thereof howe much more should Christians yeeld dutifull subiection and obedience to Christian godlie Princes which are Fosterfathers Nurses to the church of God Esai 49. as the Prophet Esay calleth them Ignatius the auncient Father Martyr about the time of the Apostles Ignatius Epist 8. ad Antiochense renued this charge of our Sauiour and his Apostles Be subiect saieth hee to Caesar in all thinges in which your subiection is without perill Hee meaneth the perill of their soule faith bounden dutie to God because Princes at that time were Heathen And thus how according to the rules of gods word wee should frame our affections and obedience to higher powers The 3. chiefe matter The third principall point or chief matter is how according to the rules of Gods word the Christians in the primitiue Churche framed their affections and obedience to Princes higher powers being then heathen Tertul a very auncient father Tertul. in Apolog cap. 4. about the time of Seuerus the Emperor as by his owne words appeareth who was after Christe about the yere 196. openeth the very hearts affections praiers of christiaÌ„s for Emperors Princes then being Heathen and their fidelitie obedience and subiection to them according to the lawes of God Tertul. in Apolog cap. 30 We saith he for the health and wealth of the Emperor cal on the euerlasting God the true God and the liuing God whom the Emperors theÌ„selues though HeatheÌ„ wish to be gracious vnto them aboue others And in an other place speaking of the praiers of the ancient christiaÌ„s in their congregations We pray saith he for Emperors their ministers and potentates Tertul. in Apolog cap. 39 for the state of the worlde for quietnes of all things for the stay of the ende Thus Tertul. Though the Emperors before and after Tertul. time were HeatheÌ„ Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero Domitian TraiaÌ„ Marcus Aurelius Seuerus as Tiberius Calig Claudius Nero DomitiaÌ„ Traian Marcus Aurelius Seuerus in TertulliaÌ„s time sundrie of theÌ„ persecutors of christiaÌ„s to death yet such were their affectioÌ„s praiers fidelitie subiectioÌ„ to theÌ„ according to Gods ordinance that in their congregations they praied for their health wealth prosperous state Hiere 29. And God by Hiere willeth the Iewes which were captiue in Babylon to seeke the prosperitie of the Citie where I saith God haue caused you to be carried away captiue pray vnto the Lord for it for in the peace therof shal you haue peace Thus far Ieremie According to this Tertull. the aforesaid witnesseth how the ancieÌ„t christiaÌ„s in whose times so many blessed martyrs by life death glorified God were wont in publike prayers to coÌ„meÌ„d to god the prosperous estate of their Emperors though they were Panims many of them persecutors Precantes sumus saith hee omnes pro omnibus Imperatoribus vitam illis pro lixam Imperium securum domum tutam Tertul. in Apolog cap. 30 exercitus fortes senatum fidelem populum probum orbem quietum quaecunque Caesaris hominis vota sunt We all pray saieth hee for all Emperors for long life vnto them securitie of their Empire safetie in their house puisant hoasts a faithfull Councell a good people a quiet world and whatsoeuer Caesar or man would wish Thus far Tertullian And further the same Tertullian in commendation of the subiection fidelitie of the auncient Christians to their Princes doth shew how though by the great blessing of God they were so ouerspread and multiplied on earth that their Citties Countries and Ilands were full of them as hee saith Vestra omnia implemus Vrbes Tertul. in Apolog cap. 37. Insulas c And if they shoulde reuoult from them they shoulde leaue the Cities of their Empire so desolate that themselues would wonder at them if they should conspire and ioin their forces together they might soone ouerrun them yet notwithstanding according to Gods ordinance with such humble subiectioÌ„ fidelitie alleageance they bare themselues euen to them that rigorously reigned ouer them eftsoones persecuted them And see the great blessing of God on them therefore more more The more they multiplied the more they were persecuted as Tertullian to Scapula saith Tertul. ad Scapulam The sect of christians the more it is builded vp the more it is cut and hewen downe And in an other place he saith Tertul. in Apolog cap. 45 Plures efficimur quoties metimur Ã vobis Semen est sanguis ChristianoruÌ„ The more saith he we growe the more you mowe vs. The seed is the blood of Christians Thus Tertullian Though Panim Princes Emperours in the primitiue auncient Churche watered it with the blood of Christians yet God so blessed it that by that seed it sprange spread ouer the face of the earth And notwithstanding to Princes though Panims then these auncient Christians yeelded their subiection fidelitie according to the ordinance of God It is good thus to looke into the exaÌ„ples of the Primitiue Church on which God powred out so abundantly his spitit out of the which issued such numbers of blessed Martyrs whose memorie is blessed whose state is glorious in the kingdome of God Plinius Secundus of the ancient christians to Traianus the Emperour Plinius Secundus an Heathen and Noble man writeth vnto Traian the Emperour a Panim prince of the conuersation behauiour of the ancient christiaÌ„s by occasion that in the gouernment of his prouince he saw such multitudes of theÌ„ so meekly to endure persecutions some condeÌ„ned to death som disauthorised priued of their estates wherat being amazed as wonderfull not only strange he maketh relatioÌ„ to the Emperor therof of their assemblies and conuersation and thus he writeth his intelligence of theÌ„ Tertullian the foresaid

at his sodain death vnlooked for the Diuell deceiued him then at that instant he bewailed coÌ„fessed his wickednesse as Platina aforesaide telleth Besides many Sorcerers and NigromaÌ„cers followed in that Sea Beno the Cardinall confessing it as disciples of Syluester and right successors of Simon Magus What maruaile though euill spirites haue so preuailed in that Sea and wrought by them and those that haue been bewitched by them such monstrous mischiefes vnnaturall treasons and blooddie butcheries and outrages against the Church of God against Christian Princes People and Countries Therfore seeing the Church of God and our Prince and our country hath such enemies confedered with euill spirits by whom they worke and bee continually set on by them what should be the refuge of godly faithfull subiects to her Maiestie but with Constantine the Emperor in the like case in his warres against such sorcerers workers by wicked meanes with heartie and feruent prayers to commend and commit the Royall person of our Prince her estate and raigne the estate of Gods Church and our country to the Almighty prouideÌ„ce protection of God that so with Constantine shee also may haue victorie ouer all her enemies maugre all euil spirites whatsoeuer Then feare theÌ„ not The blessed banner of the fatherly prouidence of God is displaied ouer vs. God is the protector of our life as Dauid saith whoÌ„ then shall we fear Psal 27. Thogh an hoast of men wer laid against vs yet shall not our heart bee afraid though there rose vp war against vs yet will we trust in him Thus let our hearts take hold of Dauids comfort Rom. 15. for the holy Scripture is written for our comfort and instruction These are examples for vs. What is a cordial comforte and soueraigne salue if it bee not vsed Enlarge therefore our owne harts in Dauids coÌ„forts Psal 46. saying with him God is our strength and hope a very present helpe in trouble And in his prayer growing into comfort and courage he saith The Lord of hoasts is with vs the god of Iacob is our refuge And in another place Psal 44. it is not saith he their owne arme that helped them but thy right hand and thy arm and the light of thy countenance because thou hadst a fauour to them Thou art my king O God send help to Iacob Thus Dauid Let vs arme our selues in his spirite with his praiers against all forces of euill spirites and enemies and they will flie Iaco. 4. Resist the Diuell saieth Iames and he will flie from you What though Balaam doth inuocate and call on diuels against the people of God as Origen saieth Orige ho. 13. in ca. 22. lib. Nu. Inuocet licet Daemones Balaam non potest Deus Ã daemonibus defendere Cannot God saith he defend vs froÌ„ Diuels He raigneth ouer the Diuels and euill spirites also as the same Origen in annother place saith Non solum bonis sanctis mentibus ac spiritibus dominatur Origen in Epist ad Rom. ca. 4. lib. 9. verum nequam refugis his quos Scriptura malignos Angelos appellat Hee ruleth not only ouer good and holy mindes and spirits but ouer the euill and reuolted spirits whom the scripture calleth the euil angels And therfore feare them not Feare coÌ„meth of waÌ„t of faith Neither must we fear theÌ„ nor fawn vpoÌ„ theÌ„ To. Gerson ser 1. de 5. Antonio veritate 3. GersoÌ„ a writer of great name in their own schooles somtime Chanceller of Parris giueth godly counsell herein that we should not feare the euill spirites nor fawn on them to seeke to them by sorcerie and vnlawfull meanes to haue helpe or any good of them or by them What frendship saith he can a man haue of a deadlie enemie What truth of the father of lies If hee telleth any true thing it is to deceiue by colour of truth to betray thee He is a Traitour to thy Lord and wilt thou look for help of him And God threatneth to destroy thee if thou deale with him and seeke to him and those that work by him Against God and against the faith is to seek health of the enemie of God Thus Gerson imboldneth vs against the feare of euill spirites and feareth vs against fawning and seeking for helpe or any good thing by them Let vs not therefore that are inuested in the name and faith of Christe fawne on them or feare them or those that worke and practise by them But let vs fear the liuing God and powre our heartie praiers and supplications to him for the continuall protection and long preseruation of the Royall person of our Prince and her prosperous estate and for the ministration and garrison of holie Angels about her aganist all euill spirits and workers by them Then the euill spirites themselues will feare and the instruments in whom and by whom they worke will quake at their very heart rootes and we shall see the great saluation of our God and shall magnifie his marueilous mercies and wonderous workes for the continuall preseruation of his Church the Royall person and estate of our Queene and Countrie Thus of the ende of the seconde braunch of this matter that we shoulde pray for her that the euill spirits and those that are set on by euill spirites and worke by them may haue no power against her The last branch With what mindes we shoulde pray to God for her The last braunch of this matter is with what minds we should pray to God for her that he may accept our prayers We must not only lift vp our hands in prayer which as Athanasius saith God hath giuen vs Vt in oratione supplices tendamus addominum That humblie in prayer wee should lift them vp to the Lord but we must lift vp our heartes with our hands to heauen as the Prophet Ieremie saith and with our hearts we must crie to God for her For heartie prayer is the crie of the heart and bending of the thoughtes as Augustine saieth August in Psal 18. Aug. de ver Apost ser 13. and not the clamor of the mouth and iawes as in another place Augustine saith but the clamor of the heart which soundeth in the eares of God And thus with heart and handes wee must take with vs also the warning of S. Paul 1. Tim. 2. that wee lift vp pure hands in prayer to God not polluted and defiled with grosse and greeuous sinnes and with vnrepentant hearts For sinners continuing in their sins God doth not heare as the blind man whom our Sauiour healed witnesseth in S. Iohn Iohn 9. And if I incline to wickednesse in my heart Psal 66. the Lord wil not hear me saith Dauid He that sinneth with vnrepentant heart dwelling and abiding in sinne is of the Diuel saith Iohn God abhorreth the wicked 1. Iohn 3. will destroy them as Dauid saith Psal 5. Psal 109. Pro.

foorth lay open the great Patron practiser of treasons The first principall matter rebellions such like disloialties against Christian Princes and Countries which is the Bishop of Rome his adherents followers and practisers for him and by colour of authoritie from him And intreating hereof I will folow this order 1 First I will shewe what engine the Bishop of Rome hath vsed continuallie vseth in the practise of such things by excommunicating cursing and banning of Princes and cursing and interditing of Countries What time chieflie hee began to vse this engine of cursing and banning Princes countries and practising of treasons rebellions and such like disloyalties against them By what meanes the Bishop of Rome and his fellowes doe manage and carrie on their practises of treasons rebellions and such like disloyalties against Princes and Realmes Of the iudgments of God vpon the cursing banning Popes Thus the order of my proceeding in this part The first is what engine commonly hee vsed and still vseth in such practises The vsuall engin of Bishops of Rome in managing plats of treasons THE vsuall engine which the Bishop of Rome commonly vsed and vseth still in the managing and carrying on of plats and practises of treasons and rebellions against Christian Princes is the excommunicating cursing and banning of them wherein they take on them as if their sentences came from Peter and Paul out of heauen but they open as it were Hell mouth on earth by cursing banning Christian Princes and Realmes and by procuring and practising treasons against the royall persons of Princes and conspiracies and rebellions against their estates and gouernmentes and periuries of people against the othes of their allegiance and shedding of innocent bloode and such other outrages as we haue seene in their plattes but that God hath preuented their practises Though we haue a glasse of present memorie and especially in our owne Countrie set before our eyes of such practises yet by looking into stories of auncient record we shal see how with this vsual engine of excommunicating cursing banning he hath afflicted Christian Princes and Countries heretofore Henry the fourth Emperour of that name Henry the 4. Emperour Io. Cuspin in vita Henr. 4. of Iohn Cuspinian is praysed for a godlie Prince and of such renowne in warres that he fought more battailes in his owne person then either Iulius Caesar or Marcus Marcellus did who carried the prize of that prayse in the world Yet he was excoÌ„municated cursed of three Popes Gregory the 7. Gregorius 7. Vrbanus 2. Paschalis 2. Vrbanus the 2. and Paschalis the 2. And notwithstanding hee raigned about fiftye yeeres lacking one and sawe the Corses of two of the foresaid Popes notwithstanding their curses Henry the fifth of that name Henry the 5. Emper. rebelled against his owne father and deposed him And Pope Paschal the second as it were blewe vp the trumpet to that vnnatural and parricidial warre as their owne wryters Abbas Vrspergensis in an 1105. and the Abbat of Vrsperg himselfe termeth it Yet after because he would not yeeld to the Popes demaunds and commaundements against his prerogatiue and right he was excominged cursed of 3. Popes as his father before him was Paschal 2. Gelatius 2. Calixtus 2. of Paschal the second Gelatius the second Calixtus the second Notwithstanding he raigned as king 20. yeeres as Emperour 14. yeeres and saw 2. of the foresaid Popes raked on earth before him while he reigned Fridericus 1. Imp. Frederick the 1. Emperour of that name was so valiant and victorious a Prince that his death in the Countrie of Armenia in his exploit against the Soulden and the infidels as the the Abbat of Vrsperg Abbas Vrspergensis in an 1187. Io. Cusp in vita Frid. 2. sayth was an in estimable losse to Christians and besides his valiantnesse in warres Iohn Cuspinian greatly praised him for a peacemaker at home and that hee beganne his reigne with making peace reconciling al rancors and reuenges aunswering to his name therein which signifieth as Vrspergensis Cuspinian noteth asmuch as riche of peace Abbas Vrsperg in an 1152. And yet notwithstanding he was such a peacemaker at home and so valiant a Prince abroad and ventured and ended his life in the countrie of infidels and is so highly commended of the Popes owne wryters he was excominged and cursed of three Popes also Hadrian 4. Alexand. 3. Vrbanus 3. Hadrian the fourth Alexander the third and Vrbanus the 3. and the 4. Pope named Lucius the 3. Lucius 3. predecessour to Vrbanus the third last named of the foresaid three cursing Popes beganne brawles also against Frederick the aforesaid Abbas Vrsperg in an 1176. for pacifying whereof a diet was apointed at Verona and there in the consultation the Pope died So this noble Emperour thus commended of the Popes owne wryters as the Abbot of Vrspergensis Otto Bishop of Frising Iohn Cuspinian notwithstanding of 3. Popes was cursed downe right The fourth was entred into circumstance of cursing but he died and notwithstanding the cursing conspiracies and bloody broyles of the Popes against him foure of them turned vp their heeles before him Io. Cusp in vit Fride 1. Abbas Vrsperg in Chro. And he maugre of their curses reigned 37. yeeres The Abbot of Vrsperge wryting of the end of this noble Emperour cannot conteine himselfe though he were a piller of the Popes side from giuing condigne commendations to him He calleth him a most Christian Prince triumphant in warres couragious curteous and he commendeth his clemencie in vicorie to all sortes Thus the Abbot himselfe powreth out prayses on him though the Popes powred out the poyson of their curses on him Otto Bishoppe of Frising so admired and honored this noble Emp. that he wrat 2. Otto Fris Epis de rebus gestis Fride 1 bookes of the actes of his chiualrie Radeuini praepositi vel canonici supplementum Merula the mouthi and being preuented by death that he could not ende his storie Radeuinus a Canon of his Church put too a supplie of two other bookes to them As for mouthie Merula who in his storye of the vicountes calleth this noble Emperour a barberous Prince regard is not to be had for he saith the like of other kings of Germanie Io. Cusp in vit Fride 1. which exelled in pietie and clemencie as Cuspinian noteth and he followeth his common vaine which hee sheweth in carping and biting the learned men of his time as Philelf Petrarch Dante 's Valla Politiam Beroald and others His iudgment is partiall in reporting the stories betweene the Emperours and the Popes Merula partial to Pops And as Cuspinian noteth being ignorant of the actes of Frederick he followeth Plattina and Blondus the Italian wryters of stories and fowly faleth eftsones Such not onely are partiall to Popes in writing their stories but sometimes parties with them Platina As Platina

was officer to Sixtus the 4. Blondus was belonging great about Eugenius the fourth Blondus in prefatione ad Eugen. in lib. Rom. in stau to whom he dedicateth his bookes of Rome restored But other wryters of their owne side as the Abbat of Vrsperg Otto the Bishoppe of Frising Albert Deane of Hauburg Naucler and others notwithstanding they are partiall on the Popes side touching Romish religion and parties with them therein Yet as inforsed by truth coÌ„pelled by conscience to giue witnes to the noble fame excellent vertues and great prayses of this Emperour whom notwtstanding the Popes persecuted with cursing banning one after the other as if the more excellent and Princely qualities were in him the more the furies of Popes were inflamed against him Thus of Friderike the first and how the writers of stories that are partiall and mingle the poyson of their partialitie with their stories are to be red with iudgement to discerne the storie from their partialitie What maruell though wee see the Popes to continue their wonted course of cursing and banning of Christian Princes qualified with excellent giftes and Princely vertues But God hath encountred their cursings and turned them to blessings and two of the cursing Popes already haue had their pasportes Pius 5. Gregor 13. and her Maiestie liueth and reigneth And God graunt she may long liue and prosperously reigne and see the pasportes of many such practising Popes against her Fridericke the second Emperour of that name Fridericus 2. Imp. of Cuspinian is commended for learning and learned writing when his leasure serued Io. Cusp in vita Frid. 2. and for his skill in diuers languages as Latine Greeke Saracen French Duch And that he caused sundry translatioÌ„s out of the Greeke and Hebrewe to bee made Beside he was valiant and victorious in the warres not onely in Christendome but among the heathen He recouered Hierusalem Nazareth Ioppe with the confines of the Soulden of Babylon as Cuspinian reporteth And that yeere he kept his Easter at Herusalem in sumptuouse and royall manner as Vrspergensis telleth And with his Crowne on his head and in Princely aray he shewed himselfe to the people Abbas Vrsperg in an 1229. After he wrot to the Pope of his good successe and the ioy of Christians But he cast his letters away and had no edge to heare of the good newes because of an old grudge he bare to the Emperour And notwithstanding the imploying of his owne person in the warres against infidels the recouery of Hierusalem and the countrie adioyning and that hee was a wise learned valiant and victorious Prince yet he was also excominged and cursed of 3. Honorius 3. Gregorius 9. Innocent 4. Popes Honorius the 3. Gregory the 9. Innocent the 4. Pope Celestin that was before Innocent the 4. was a Pope but of .18 dayes Thus the more excellent vertues were heaped on him with victorious successe against the infidels so the more the cursings and rage of Popes was heaped against him Io. Cuspin in vita Fride 2. And notwtstanding their cursinges bannings God blessed him with great successe victories against the infidels against his other enemies against al the practises of Popes He reigned 32. yeeres as Cusp accounteth ouerliued 3. Popes And Innocent the 4. Io. Cusp in vita Frid 2. that followed them was fayne to packe him into Fraunce far froÌ„ the Emperors forces And there being out of his reach at Lyons in a sermon to the people as Albert. Kranz telleth he cryed on the Emperor Alber. KraÌ„z. Saxoniae lib. 8. cap. 12. sited him to make his apparaÌ„ce at Lyons before him and after in processe excomminged cursed and priued him of the Empire absolued subiectes from their oathes of alleagiance gaue power to the electors to chuse a new Emp. Thus he set on the Emp. with his vsual engin of cursing and banning Alb. Cranz Saxo. lib. 8. cap. 13. but he was sure to haue the Alpes betweene the Emperour and him then he banneth and barketh freely And the Emperour prepared to make his apparance at Lyons and carried with him such a retinue of men of armes men in gounes to furnish his apparance in the Councell at Lyons that as Albertus sayth no Emperour since the Roman Empire beganne eyther at home or abroad carried the like But as he was passing the Alpes hearing euill tydings of Henry his sonne at Parma he was fayne to returne fearing the reuolt of Italie else hee would haue made his aunsweare to the Popes curse and banning in Fraunce if he would abide his comming Of this Pope InnoceÌ„t the Emperor assoone as he heard of his election said Alber. KraÌ„z. lib. 8. cap. 11. that hee had chaunged a Cardinal friend for a Pope a bitter enemie For being Cardinall he was the Emperours freind but after he was Pope he fell to banning and cursing of him like an incarnate Diuel The Emperour did prognosticate so much of him before that a Cardinall friend would be turned into a enemie being Pope And euen in that time God sent a light into his Church against the vsurped tyranny practises of Popes against Princes Petrus de Vineis Petrus de Vineis a man of great honour and learning and neer about the Emperour not onely publikely treated the Emperours cause against Pope Gegory the ninth in a great assembly Io. Cusp in Vita Fri. 2. and on the great feast and day of the resurrection of our Sauiour but also wrot books in the defence of the Emperours cause against the outrage of the Popes And Pope Innocent the fourth Platina in vita Innoc. 4 was fayne for answeare to write bookes of defence in his own cause against him But God defended the Emperour against the cursing and raging Popes and. 2 of the Popes faded with their curses before him sone died the 3. the fourth fled into Fraunce and there fell a cursing afresh notwithstanding the Emperour reigned about 32. yeeres Io. Cuspin in vita Fride 2. and dyed by treason of Manfred his base borne sonne after hee was poysoned at Florenzola and vpon his recouery as Cuspinian noteth and some say that he dyed at Panorme Ludouick of Bauar succeded Frederick surnamed the fayre in the Empire Lodouicuae Bauatus Cuspinian commendeth him for a curteous Prince amiable affable in speech and gentle in behauiour and not puffed vp with any prosperitie prouident and prudent valiant in warres Io. Cusp in vita Ludou Bauarâ— and that would not bee daunted in daungers Thus Cuspinian prayseth his Princely qualites but notwithstanding he was cursed and banned of three Popes also Ihon the 22. Iohn 22. Benedict 12. Clemens 6. Benedict the twelfth and Clemens the sixt Platina doth name the first Iohn the 23. others account Iohn the 22. to concur in time with Ludouick the Emperour Benedict the 12. was pricked in conscience of cursing him In paralipo

bishoppe Aeneas Syl. in Hist Austral he was a Monke by profession of the superstitious order of Cistertians died amongst the Monkes of that order in the abbate of Moromond so that no exception can be taken against his religion of those that are of the Bishoppe of Romes side to disclaime against him Touching his great skill and experience in stories he was of great fame and renowne for it and wrot a storie from the beginning of the worlde to his owne time He liued about the time of Frederick the first Emperor of that name to whom he was neere in blood and he began to write his storie but before his death he could not finishe it Thus of the nobilitie authoritie religion and geeat skill in stories of Otto Bishoppe of Frising Nowe let vs heare his owne wordes touching the matter wee haue in hand Otto Fris Epis anna lib. 5. cap. 35. Lego relego saith hee Romanorum regum imperatorum gesta nusquam inuenio quenquam eorum ante hunc a Romano Pontifice excommunicatum vel regno priuatum nisi forâ—e quis pro anathemate habendum ducat quod Philippus ad breue tempus a Romano Epipscopo inter poenitentes collocatus Theodosius a beato Ambrosio propter cruentam caedem a liminibus ecclesiae sequestratus sit I reade saith he and reade ouer againe the actes of the Roman Kinges and Emperours and no where I finde any of them before Henry the fourth to haue been excommunicated of the Roman Bishoppe or priued of his kingdome except parhappes one say it to be deemed for a curse Philip. Theodosius that Philippe of the Roman Bishop was set for a small time in the nomber of the penitentes and that Theodosius for a bloody slaughter was of blessed Ambrose sequestred froÌ„ the ingresse of the Church Thus farre Bishoppe Otto his wordes He maketh his auow vpon his skil experience of stories being a famous writer of them that before Henry the fourth hee neuer cold finde any Rom. Emperour of king excoÌ„minged cursed of any Bishop of Rome though he had red and red ouer againe their stories Thus of his authoritie touching this case Now let vs looke into that time when the bishops of Rome began to adueÌ„ture such practises against christian Emperours and Princes Reue. 20. It was about the time that Sathan was let loose out of his chaine as in the Reuelations we reade that Sathan was bound of the Angell 1000. yeeres in the bottomlesse pit and after that hee must bee loosed for a little season Grego 7. Gregorie the seuenth Pope of that name which cursed first Henrie the 4. Emperor of that name was about the yeere of our Lord. 1072. as Platina the writer of the popes liues maketh computatioÌ„ Platina in vita Greg. 7. he was called Hildebrand the monke before And in the Councell of Brixia of 30. Bishops assembled there Concil Brixi he was charged to be Manifestus necromanticus phitonico spiritu laborans Ab. Vrsperg in an 1080. idcirco Ã vera fide exorbitans that is an open Necromancer and one that wrought by a Familiar or euill spirit and therfore is straid from the true faith Worm a coÌ„cil an 1076 And in the Councell of Wormes of the Bishops assemble there hee is charged with heynous crimes with periuries with abuse of noueltie with infamie Ab. Vrsperg in an 1074. at his death at Salern whether for feare of Henrie the 4. whom hee had cursed before hee was faine to flie hee confessed to a Cirdinall that was familiar with him that hee was set on by the Diuell to reare vppe discorde and warres it Christendome Io. de Heraul lib. de statu eccle ex Ante And taking remorse and sorrowe for it commaunded him to pray forgiuenesse of Henrie the fourth for him and that he should release him of the excommunication against him It is maruell though after a thousand yeeres the Diuel as it were turned loose in the worlde beganne thus to rage in the Romane Bishoppes and to curse and banne Christian Emperours and Princes which so highly were praised for princely qualities and vertues of famous writers of their owne side as before I haue rehearsed about that tyme Gregorie the 7. called Hildebrand did as a brand of hell set Christendom a fire with diuision discorde ciuill and mortall warres And as Bishop Otto voucheth in his trauell of stories of the Roman kings and Emperours hee could neuer finde any of them excomminged or cursed of a Roman Bishop before Henry the fourth of this Gregorie the seuenth was excomminged and cursed as we haue hard before Henr. 4. Grego 7. Was hee not a fit instrument of the Diuell to giue the on set of such diuelish discord ciuill warres rebellions and bloodshed in Christendome And if wee look neerer to the thousand yeeres mentioned before out of the ReuelatioÌ„s after which Sathan should be loosed out of his chaine Syluester 2. Syluester the 2. Pope of that name the great Necromancer Sorcerer Platina in vita Syl. 2. and that wrought by the Diuell in the Sea of Rome was then Pope about the yeere of our Lorde 1000. or 1002. as Platina Charanza Charanza in summa con others set downe the account As if assoone as Satan was let loose out of the bottomelesse pit and of his chain to goe about to deceiue the people which are in the foure quarters of the earth as in the Reuelation S. Iohn writeth Reue. 20. he did take vp his place on earth in the Roman Sea in Siluester the seconde who was about the 1000. yeere after Christ or two aboue as commonly they account Hee as Platina the writer of Popes liues and officer to them as Abbat Tritenhemius of him witnesseth Platina in vita Syl. 2. came to bee Pope by the helpe of the Diuell and on this condition that after death wholy he should be his After Platina telleth how at his death the Diuell deceiued him by mistaking the worde Hierusalem supposing that he should not die till he came to Hierusalem but sodainly he was ouertaken in a place called Hierusalem in the Church of S. Crosse at Rome And he telleth also out of one Martinus that by the clattering of bones and sweat of his graue Syluester the 2. his graue they prognosticate the death of the Pope as the coÌ„mon opinion was There folowed him sundry sorcerers necromancers wicked Popes in the Sea of Rome as Bâ—dict the 9 Benedict 9. who as Platina reporteth appeared in a monstrous shape after his death Platina in vita Bene. 9. because of his monstrous life And in Syluester the thirde Platina in vita Syl. 3. the same Platina saith the Popedome was come to that state that hee got it that with briberie and ambition could carrie it Beno the Cardinall Beno the Cardinall reporteth that from Syluester the second to

noted how the Pope by sundrie letters and processe had called for the Emperor hee saith but many didde not acknowledge him lawfully chosen without the Emperours consent And yet this is he in the iudgement of Otto Bishop of Frising who first of any Roman Bishop did excoÌ„minge and curse the Romane Emperor or King Bishops of Rome in the primitiue Church In the time of generall councels And before Gregorie the 7. The Romane Bishops in the primitiue Church most of them were Martyrs after in the time of the ancient and generall counsels the Catholike faith in the blessed Trinitie was constantly confessed and maintained of them against the Arrians and other heretikes and of those that succeeded them and were predecessors to Gregorie the 7. none tooke on them accordinge to Bishop Otto his protestation to excoÌ„minge and curse the Romane Emperor before And were there not Emperors of notorious notes and deserts before some spotted with heresies and some with other greeuous enormities As for the examples of the Emperors Philip Theodotius mentioned of Otto both touching the causes proceedings actioÌ„s in the iudgement of Otto himselfe cannot be obiected for instances against his former protestatioÌ„ The Abbat of Vrsperg discoursing the stories of the time Ab. Vrsperg iudgement of Otto his protestation stalleth at the protestation of Otto and first layeth down his words after where Bishop Otto touched the sore he layeth to playsters as a Leach laying to his hande to cure the papall sores being an Abbat and wel willer to the Papall power Ab. Vrsperg in chro tit aenacephaleosis Impe. Conradi c. First hee saith that Emperors and Princes of certaine nations haue been deposed before that time for causes thogh not by authority of the bishop of Rome as Emperors in Constantinople haue been This toucheth not the case of Otto his protestation The second is An instance of Grego 3. an instance concerning the case of Gregorie the 3. which caused all Italie to reuolt from the Emperor of ConstaÌ„tinople excomminged him and priued him of his kingdome Touching this instaunce of Gregorie the 3. who was about the yeere of Christ 731 Platina the writer of popes liues saith Platina in vita Greg. 3. that he excominged and priued the Emperor Cuspinian sayth that hee priued him of the communion and fellowship of the faithfull Io. Cusp in vita Greg. 3. and that hee reuolted from him and caused the tributes payable to the Emperour to be yeelded to the French and yeelded himselfe to the obedience of the French Carrolus Martellus Carolus Martellus carrying then the Regiment of France and called Maior Domus as Platina witnesseth Platina in vita Zacha. 1 Wherefore did he reuolt from the Emperour of Constantinople and caused the tributes of the Empyre in Italie to be turned to the French because the Emperour of Constantinople Leo the thirde of that name had made Proclamations Leo the third Emperor his proclamatioÌ„s against images that images shoulde bee voided out of Churches and burned therof they called him ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ Therfore Gregorie the third preferring dead images before the Emperor who was touching his Imperiall soueraigntie the liuelie image of God reuolted from his obeisaunce turned the tributes of the Empire to the French put himselfe at their deuotion excomminged the Emperor priued him saith Platina the officer to Popes Abbreuiator Apostolicus as Abbat Tritenhemius termeth him Ab. Triten de eccle scrip But it was a poore priuing of the Emperour when hee raigned 24. yeeres till of Gods visitation hee ended his life Till God depriued him of his life hee was not priued of his Empire yet Platina the writer of the storie of Popes saieth hee excomminged him and priued him of his Empire thus they vtter great wordes and perfourme small actions Io. Cusp in vit Leonis 3. Cuspinian telleth out of Iohn the Monke of whom he borrowed the storie that the bishop priued the Emperor of the fellowship of the faithfull But Bishop Otto farre auncienter then Platina or Cuspinian late writers in comparison of him and who was before the Abbat of Vrsper Otto Frisin Episc lib. 6. cap. 35. also coÌ„fesseth that notwithstanding he hath read and read ouer again the stories of the Roman Emperors and kings yet he neuer could finde any Romane Emperor and king excoÌ„minged of a Roman Bishop before Henrie the 4. of Gregorie the seuenth Bar. Platina Io. Cuspini Platina was more then foure hundred yeeres after Bishop Otto Cuspinian farre later vnder Maximilian the Emperour Iohn the Monke out of whoÌ„ Cuspini Io. the Monk taketh his report Otto Frising Episc belike is a late writer also But Otto had read the stories of auncient memories and out of his reading affirmeth neuer Emperor to haue been excominged of a Roman Bishop before What maner of excoÌ„minging did Gregorie the 3. vse against Leo the third Emperor of Constantinople As he excoÌ„minged him so he priued him Hee priued him yet he kept his Empire during life hee excoÌ„minged him yet stil the faithfull not only kept communion with him but their allegeance to him So his excoÌ„minging was a putting him out of his communion and company and of those that were of his obedience therin because they would not keepe companie with dead images the quicke with the dead Therfore hee made suche stirre for the dead among the liuing in Italie reuolted from the Empire which had aduaunced and fostered the Bishop of Rome in that state to the French and bereaued the Empire of the tributes and manage of Italie and in processe so weakened the Empire of ConstaÌ„tinople The Bishop of Rome weakened betraied the Empire that it became a pray to Turkes and Infidels The Bishop of Rome first pulled it down on his knees after came the Turks and ouerranne it when one is downe he is soone ouercome The Bishop of Rome in defence of dead images displaying the banner of his reuolt in Italie from the Empire of Constontinople and by that meanes impouerishing it by taking away of tributes due to it and weakening the force of it by the reuolt of the men did open as it were the dore to the Turke to ouerrunne the Empyre If wee looke who betrayed the Citie of Constantinople Ioh Io. Iustinian betraied the citie of Constantinople to Mahomet the 2. Iustinian of Gen beareth that infamie If we looke who betrayed the Empire of Constantinople it was the bishop of Rome in effect by carrying Italy to reuolt after him by dispoyling the Empire of tributes disfurnishing it of meÌ„ by plucking it as it were on ground by feathering his nest out of the Empire and by the fal therof mouÌ„ting himself in Italie Thus for answere to the Abbat of Vrsperg to his instance of Gre. the 3. his excomminging and priuing Leo the 3 of his Empire Ab. Vrsper anacephaleosis Imperat. c After that the Abbat

hand was wounded for his periurie A warning to all treason and rebellion against his Prince This may be example to all estates and persons to keepe their hartes and hands true to their Prince according to Godes ordinance least Gods vengeance fall on their harts heads as it did vpoÌ„ Absolon the traytours hart and vppon their hand which they lifte vp against their Prince as it did vppon the right hand of Duke Rodolph rufully repenting for it Thus the example of Duke Rodolph by whom and how hee was set on of his rebellion and euill successe last of his rufull repentance Now will I discourse the storie of Henry the 5. Henry the 5. his rebellion against Henry the 4. his father The Order the treason and rebellion against Henry the 4. his owne father And for the more orderly treating of it I will referre my selfe to these cheefe pointes First of his cause and pretence and setting on to this treason and rebellion against his father Secondly of the vnnaturall and parricidial warre of the sonne against the father Thirdly of the taking and deposing of Henry the fourth Fourthly of his death and crueltie shewed on his corpes Fiftely of the mone and iudgment of their owne wryters of his case Laste of all of the iudgement of God on Henry the 5. in the ende Thus the order of my discourseâ— this storie The first The cause pretence of rebellion of Henry the 5. against his father The first is his cause and pretence and setting on to that horrible treason and rebellion against his owne father The cause and pretence of his treason and rebellion against his owne father was Pope Gregorie the seuenth Pope Vrbane the second and Pope Paschal the second their curses on Henry the fourth his father and withall their priuing him of his Empire What the cause and his desert was that the Popes thus cursed and priued him let vs heare out of their owne writers The Abbat of Vrsperg very parciall on the Popes side against the Emperour noteth this to bee the cause Abbas Vrspergensis in chro in an 1075. Because two Popes of Rome solemnly cited the Emperor to make his apparance at Rome before them and he came not and for contempt against them and because he would not submitt himselfe to them he was of Gregorie the seuenth excomminged and cursed then of Vrbanus the second after of Paschal the second Another cause by Albertus reporte is aleaged out of the aunsweres of the Bishop of Mens and Wormes to the Emperour when they came to depose him for Simonie in collating Bishoprickes Abbacies which they cal the inuesting of Bishoppes and Abbates Alber. KraÌ„z. Saxoniae lib. 5. cap. 20. by the hande of Princes into their royalties they hould of them Thus as in the right of their imperial prerogatiues The imperial right in inuesting of Bishoppes Abbates c Emperours haue held and continued from the time of Charles the Emperour surnamed the great and vnder 63. Bishoppes of Rome aboue 300. yeeres as Cuspinian noteth And after the thousand yeere that the Deuill was let lose out of the bottomlesse pitte Reue. 20. as out of the Reuelation I haue noted he raged in the Bishoppes of Rome against the principates of the earth making a quarrell for inuesting Bishoppes and Abbates by ley hand to the royalties of their dignities which they termed simenicall heresie I wil lay downe the wordes of Iohn Cuspinian concerning the cause Io. Cusp in vita Hen. 5. who was a man of great authoritie and a counceller to Maximilian the Emperour and though he were of their Religion yet without partialitie layeth down the cause Discordiae somes erat saith he talis The cause that bread the discord was such Now 380. yeeres and moe from Charles the great vnder 63. The case of inuestiture for which Popes cursed Emperors Bishoppes of Rome it was lawfull for the king to collate Episcopal dignities Abbatices by a ring a rod which now by authoritie custome most auncient preuileges by the space of so many yeeres was established But after Popes ordeyned that eccelsiasticall dignities or inuestiture might not of any ley parson bee collated and they were excomminged that were inuested in that sort Hitherto Iohn Cuspinian his wordes in the storie of Henry the fift Albertus Cranz Deane of Hanburg Alb. Cranz Sax. lib. 5. cap. 37. and a writer of their owne side doth thus speaking of Henry the 5. lay downe his iudgment of the case If saith he the Emperour meaning Henry the 5. who after was cursed of the Pope likewise for the same cause that he rebelled against his owne father did aske nothing but only the inuestiture of the lands called the graunt of the royalties the free elections to Churches and Abbaies reserued in the vacation he seemeth to demaund right Thus Albert his wordes touching the cause of inuestiture only he doth not like that the prouision for the person shall goe with it for the which he sayeth the controuersie was betweene the kingdome and the priesthood The Abbat of Vrsperg also speaking of the reconciling of Henry the fifth to Pope Calixtus sayth Ab. Vrsp in an 1122. hee did relinquishe the inuestiling of Churches which the German kinges so long hadde exercised and which hee purposed neuer during life to haue left least thereby he should preiudice the honour of his kingdome Thus Vrspergensis And yet otherwhere hee raueth against Henry the fourth Abbas Vrsperg in an 1106. for resisting the Popes censures and calleth him Nabuchodonezer and Iulian and sheweth his euill affected minde to him and his partialitie in wryting his storie which of Cuspinian also is noted Io. Cusp in vita Henr. 4. though in religion he be concurring with him Thus the bishoppes of Rome about that time that Sathan was loosed out of his chaine made schismes and hurleburlees in Christendome by encroching the auncient right of the mperiall prerogatiue touching the case of inuesting aforesaid which continued in the body of the Empire from Charles the great the first Emperour of the West after the diuision of the Empire and vnder 63 Bishoppes of Rome and more then 300. yeeres as Cuspinian noteth And because Henry the fourth would not yeeld vppe this imperiall prerogatiue and the auncient right of the Empire he was cursed of Gregorie the seuenth and other Popes and priued of his Empire though he continued Emperour about 50 yeeres lacking one as the Abbat confesseth And after that auncient right imperiall prerogatiue thus confirmed by authority Abbas Vrsperg in an 1102. custome and most ancient priuileges as Cuspinian witnesseth was called Simonicall heresie In the Lateran councell vnder Paschal the 2. Paschal 2. in Lateran councel who cursed Henry the fourth the father and Henry the fifth the sonne for the case of inuesting and for their mainteyning the Emperial prerogatiue therein and who himselfe had released the inuesting of

Churches according to the right imperiall before to Henry the 5. Gerhardus Bishop of Engelesme and Legate in Aquitania saide Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. anno 1112. that this inuesting by Emperours and Princes was against the holy Ghost and canonical institution the Councel there consenting to it At what time Pope Paschal there did recant and retract the release that he had made thereof to Henry the fifth before and he prayed pardon for it and prayed them to praye for him Such conscience he made for releasing of the imperiall right to the Emperour But where was this conscence in their predecessours time vnder 36. Bishoppes from the time of Charles the great Was it then counted against the holy Ghost and simonicall heresie Wherefore is now the case thus altered Because as Cusp toucheth the quicke post vero pontifices sanxerunt Io. Cusp in vita Henr. 5. But after the Bishops of Rome haue decreede so that it is not lawfull for any to be inuested of any lay man they were excomminged that were inuested of theÌ„ So as Popes rule cases herisies are made That vnder so many Bishops of Rome was yeelded as the lawfull imperiall right now is said to be against the holie Ghost and flat heresie Henriciana haeresis Wig bertina Abbas Vrspergensis in chro in an 1106. Wigbert Archbishop of Rauenna And because they would bring the Emperors name into publike hate they call it haeresis Henriciana Henries heresie they call it also haeresis Wigbertina Wigbertes heresie Because Wigbert Archbishoppe of Rauenna after Gregory the 7. was hunted out of Rome by the Emperour for his cursing of him at the request of the Romans was made Bishoppe of Rome for him and by the name of Clemens with great solemnitie of many Bishoppes inthronised But because he was placed by the Emperour they haue deuised an heresie after his name Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. in an 1080. to bring his name also in hate which they call Wigbertina So that maketh not on their side for maintayning their kingdome is called heresie What intollerable tyranny and monstrous presumption is this of Bishoppes of Rome as Lucifer mounted in pride Princes praerogatiues made heresie of Popes to take on them to curse and priue Emperours for keeping their auncient right and imperiall prerogatiue and to make heresie as pleaseth them where as they swallowe vppe such a number of Idolatrous heresies of theirowne and they call the doctrine deliuered to vs out of the liuely worde of God heresie and light darkenesse darkenesse light are therfore vnder the curse of God Esai 5. as the Prophet Esay witnesseth But though they call light darknes truth error prerogatiues of Princes heresies their followers daunce after their pipe as those that are bitten of the venemous spider of Italie called Tarantula because by TarentuÌ„ there is store of theÌ„ so soone as they heare the pipe or minstrel Tarantula they fall a dauÌ„sing and cannot leaue till they haue by daunsing digested the poyson which vaporeth out by sweetes as Matheolus thinketh Mathe. in Com. in Dios lib. 2. cap. 57. so they that are bitten with the venemous Spider of Italie the Tarantula of Rome cannot but dauÌ„ce after the Popes pipe and cannot giue vp and digest the poyson of Poperie vntil God renue them by special grace as it were new make and alter them Thus for what cause Gregorie the 7. and other Popes after excoÌ„minged and cursed Henry the 4. Because the Pope of such pretenced quarrel cursed the father therfore should the son rise in armour rebel against his own father God hath made the son himself iudge in the cause for eueÌ„ for the same cause that the father was cursed on pretence wherof he took on him the treason rebellion against his father he also was cursed of 3. popes after And touching the setting on of the son against his father The setting on of the son against the father the truÌ„pet of pietie was blowen vp before the son because he vndertook the treason in the Popes cause and for executing the Popes curse on his own father Therefore as such impiety outrage against his own father against the ordinance of God is blazed out as pietie to the Pope mother church of Rome So vnder the pretence and visard of pietie religion the treason and rebellion of the son is disguised Alber. KraÌ„z. Saxoniae lib. 5. cap. 16. Albert Kranz saith of him Multis persuasit filius sola se pietate in deuÌ„ terreni patris ad tempus oblitum esse The sonne saith he persuaded many that only in respect of piety to god he had forgotten for a season his father on earth Otto Frisin Epis lib. 7. cap. 8. Otto Bishop of Fris saith RebellioneÌ„ sub specie religionis eÃ² quod pater eius a Rom. pontificibus excoÌ„municatus esset aggreditur Vnder color of religion he attempteth rebellioÌ„ because his father was excomminged of the Roman Bishops The Abbat of Vrsperg saith vnder colour of religion Patrem excoÌ„municatuÌ„ priuauit regno He priued his father of the Empire being excoÌ„minged before Ab. Vrsperg in chro in an 1124. Let vs heare how of the Popes clergie he is magnified set a gog to this vnnaturall treason and rebellion vnder pretence of pietie religion After that he shrunk from his fathers side as Vrspergensis telleth and raysed rebellion against him Abbas Vrsperg in chro in an 1105. there hee professed saith he obedience to the sea of Rome though with treason he rent the Empire and the bowels of nature in his owne father that begat him it is not treason or rebellion any more but Religion and pietie He condeÌ„neth the heresie afore mentioned which they forged against his father for the which he after the death of his father was cursed of Popes also Hee withdrawed himselfe into Saxonie which then was a fitte place for mutenie and rebellion against his father Alb. Cranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 17. And at Northuson in Saxonie was a meeting appointed of the nobles and people as Albert telleth and the Clergie kept a Synod there Then after he had displaied his banner of treason and rebellion against his father the Popes Clergie flocked vnto him and hanged about him and rebellious Ruckard Archbishoppe of Mens Ruchard Archbishop of Mens and Geberhardus Bishoppe of Constans helde a great councell of Clergie at Northuson a fit councell for such a practise This Ruckard as Otto calleth him sometime Archchbishop of Mens was baÌ„nished of Henry the fourth for his disloyalties in Saxonie hee had made mutenies and conspiracies against him and being an Archrebell and traytor is now become president of this councel whom Henry the 5. by force would haue restored to his sea againe as Bishoppe Otto telleth but that his father was gotte within the towne with his garrison Otto an a. lib. 7 cap. 8. In this councel to

the ende I would not be a parricide to gaine the soueraigntie of the whole worlde After he willeth them to put swords in sheaths and let vs fight with Counsell saith hee and not with armour Thus Albert how nature fought a battaile in the very bowels of the sonne when hee was readie to ioyne battaile with his father Though nature thus began to bleede in him when the battaile beganne to ioyne against his father yet hee leaueth not persecuting of him with parricidiall warre and traiterous attempts so long as life lasted in him hee sacked his fathers treasures hee threwe his faithfull Subiects out of their liuings he betrayed him in his nearest frends by whose fidelitie and force hee was most supported Aâ—h. Kranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 18. At Spires hee ransacked his fathers treasures at Ratispon at Herbipolis hee draue out the faithfull Bishops to his father and set others of his own crue conspirators in their place And when his father beganne to vade hee brought Ruckard the ranck Rebell of Mens home to his Sea againe Otto Frisin Episc li. 7. cap. 8. So the faithfull friendes of the father went to wracke as if the course of nature beeing chaunged in the rebellion of the sonne agaynst the father the ciuil gouernmeÌ„t followed the same course also Thus howe hee betrayed him in his treasures and in his faithfull friends Now how he betrayed him euen in his neerest friendes by whose force chieflie he was garded and furnished as Henrie Duke of Beme Henry Duke of Beme Leopold Marques of Austria Otto Frisin Episc lib. 7. cap. 9. and Leopold Marques of Ostrige whose sister Duke Henrie had wedded And he lured Marques Leopold to his side by promising him the marriage of his sister Agnes the widdowe of Frederick Duke of Sueuia So he betrayed his father in his neerest and dearest friends of greatest account Agnes Dutches of Sueuia and he made his sister and daughter to Henrie the fourth the instrumeÌ„t of his practise to betray the father Thus of his parricidiall warre and continuall persecuting of his father and the betraying of him in his treasures in his faithfull friendes and principall peeres by whome hee was supported The 3. The 3. chiefe matter in the discourse of this storie is of the taking and deposing of the father Let vs heare how by treason of the sonne the father was taken as hee was comming to the Councell and diet of Princes at Mens The taking and deposing of Hen. the 4. there to haue audience of his cause Thus the father himselfe telleth it in his letters from Ledes directed to the states of the Empire Ab. Vrsper in chro in an 1106. as the Abbat of Vrsperg laieth there downe Because saith the Emperor in his letters at the counsell and request of our sonne vppon faith and securitie both of my life and honour first receiued from him I addressed my selfe hauing a desire therto to come to Mens into the presence of the Roman Legates and Princes there Henry the 4. letter to the states and further to doe as they shoulde take order there so well concerning the state of the Church and honour of the Realme as for our soules health also And thus comming with this obedience hee sticked not contrarie to his faith and safe-conduit to take vs and euen to the brinke of death in maner to bring vs And we dare not so to put our selues into his handes to bee euill intreated by iniuries and reproch of him at his pleasure as heeretofore we haue been Thus farre out of the letter of Henrie the fourth written to the states of the Empire how hee was entrapped by treason of his sonne as hee was comming to the Councell of Mens to haue audience and order for his cause The Abbat of Vrsperg telleth it more smothlie in the behalfe of the son Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. â—n anno 1106. as if the Princes fearing the Emperors comming into opeÌ„ presence least the people should fall to him and make tumult for him by generall consent and councel perswaded him to resigne send to his sonne the imperial robes and ornamentes the Crosse the Speare the scepter the globe and crowne Bishop Otto who was of the Emperiall house himselfe Otto Frisin Episc lib. 7. cap. 11. and neere about those times more indifferentlie reporteth it How he was committed to a certain castle requiring audience the Princes met him at Inglehelme that there by their many wordes he was aduertised or saith he iuxta alios circumuentus ac coactus insigniareg ni resignare filio mittere Or saith Otto as others say circumuented and compelled to resigne the ornaments of estate and to send them to his sonne Thus Bishop Otto But the father in his letters telleth the flat truth howe hee was taken by treason of his sonne as hee was comming to the counsell of Mens to haue audience Thus wee may see when treason is a foote how one treason is on the backe of an other and there is no hoe of treasons Let vs heare now how likewise he was deposed The deposing of Henrie the 4. Alb. Kraâ—â— Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 1â— Albert telleth it thus out of the Chronicle of Germanie Some saie sayth he that being absent he was depriued deposed from all Emperiall honor and that mandate was giuen to the Bishops of Mens Colon and Wormes to go take froÌ„ him the Imperiall ensignes and ornaments perforce And when they came into the sight of the elder at Inglehelme where Charles the great had made a Palace the bishops shewed the maÌ„date of the Councell The order of the deposing of Hen. the 4 out of the Chronicle of Germanie requiring the voluntarie he would râ—signe the Imperial ensignes WheÌ„ he demaded the cause of so rigorous a senteÌ„ce pronoâ—ced of the CouÌ„cell against him wtout audience of his cause they did obiect against him as report goeth of theÌ„ Simonie in collating of bishopricks Abbaries TheÌ„ said the Emperor tell me Bishop of Mens you of Colon in the name of the eternall God what I haue taken of you Henry the 4. cleareth himselfe of Simonie in collating of Bishopricks They said nothing Then said the Emperor Glory be to God on high that euen in this matter wee haue been found faithfull surely your great dignities would haue yelded great gain to our cofers if we had been of the minde My Lord of Wormes doth knowe whether for gain or of our grace inducing it we haue admitted him Do not O fathers violate your faith allegeance suffer a while do not end our glory with confusioÌ„ We craue a generall court of audience If wee must yeelde with our owne hands we will yeelde the ensignes to our sonne Thus the Emperors wordes to the Bishops that came to depose him The executions dealings after Albert telleth in this sort And when the Bishops withstoode and offered violence

the Emperor withdrawing himselfe a while The Bishops of Mens Colon and Wormes with violeÌ„ce deposed their soueraigne Lord Henrie the 4. inuested himselfe in the Imperial robes returning These saith he â—â—e the Imperiall ornaments of estate these by the goodnesse of the euerlasting king and election of Princes haue bin bestowed on me God is able also in these to continue vs and to hold your hands froÌ„ the worke you intend although we be now disgarnished of our forces and armies for supposing our selues to bee in safetie we made no preparation against suche violence But let the feare of God stay you whom pietie doth not reclaime and if you reuerence neither behold we are in presence we cannot resist your force The Bishops staggered The Bishops pluck the crowne from the Emperors head but after they encouraged one the other to set on the Emperor to pluck the crown froÌ„ his head and wheÌ„ they had plucked him out of his seat they turned him out of his Imperiall robes ornameÌ„ts The Emperor fetting deep sighes saith thus vnto theÌ„ God the Lorde of reueÌ„ge see it take reuenge of the wickednes you commit I susteine ignominie and dishonor that neuer the like was heard before for the sins of my youth of the iust iudge I am punished you neuerthelesse shal not be free froÌ„ sin because you haue falsified your othes of loyaltie The Emperor coÌ„pareth his Bishops to Iudas the Traitour you shal not escape the vengeance of that iust iudge your honor neuer prosper your portion be with him that betraid Christ But they stopping their eares go back carrying the imperial robes ornameÌ„ts to his son Thus far the report of the storie of the deposing of Henry the 4. out of Alberâ— who telleth it out of the Chronicle of Germanie for he saith Haec est narratio nostrorum aâ—naliuÌ„ Who that hath bowels of good naturâ— in him would he not rue to heare the pitifull plaint of so valiant a Prince to his sworne subiects that had been aduaunced to so high dignitie of him Hee gaue ghostly counsell to them which shoulde haue giuen it to him But their eares were stopped like the deafe Aspes Psal 48. They wilfully brake the oth of their alleageance they layde violent handes on the Royal person of the Prince they vndertook the execution of treason and the Popes curse vppon the sacred person of their prince by whome they were mounted vp in high estate of honor Thus in the treason and rebellion of the sonne against Henry the 4. his father and in the deposing of him in the ende the bishops which chiefly should haue bene faithfull and loyall to him were the principall actors and instruments against him and tooke on them the execution of the Popes curse and the violent deposing of the Emperor from his Imperiall estate King Iohn of England Fabian 2. vo part 7. in anno 1205 So in king Iohn of England his time the execution of the Popes curse vpon him and the realme was committed to the Bishops of London Ely Winchester and Herford who after they had denounced it against the king the land were fain to flie the land And in that blind time when the Pope sate in the consciences of simple people to binde and loose the king by practise of the Pope and popish Prelates was so encountred and wrapped in troubles that at length he yelded himselfe to Randolph the Popes Legate by oth Fabian 2. vo part 7. in anno 1212 to stand to the Popes order Finally hee was driuen on his knees to take the crowne from his head as Fabian reporteth it to resigne it with solemne wordes into the Popes handes and after to resume it as Feodarie to the Pope as Fabian telleth vppon a yeerely fee of a thousand marks to be paid vnto him So wheÌ„ there is variance in the land and the Pope is vmpire by cursing of Princes and lands hee fingreth and filcheth gaine and setteth a sale his cursings and blessings againe Popish Prelates are the Popes hands and bowels in Countries To whom chiefly doth hee commit the trust of the execution of such things to popish Prelates They are as the Popes hands in countries they are as the bowels of his own body and as if their conscience liued of him they are made actors and instruments eftsoones against their own Princes for him as in the practise of stories we see Running to Rome And if there grow quarrell betweene the Prince them they goe round to Rome The Pope is the vmpire they keepe that string for their bowe whatsoeuer faileth at home Tho. Becket packed him to Rome againste Hen. the 2. Thomas Becket returned with authoritie froÌ„ the Pope against the Prince Anselme Archbishop of Canter Anselme Archbishop of Canterb. sped him to Rome against Henrie the first at his return held a conuocation at London by the authority of the Pope against the Prince Lanfrank Archbishop of Canterburie Lanfrank likewise Archbishop of Canterburie Thomas of York pleated the libel of their preemineÌ„ce at Rome vnder William the conqueror Abbat Benet Abbat Benet had 5. times been at Rome Rome was their paradise on earth to run in pilgrimage to it The Pope as a God sate in dark consciences as hauing Peters key to bind lose The Abbat of Vrsperg who himself had bin at Rome runneth in Romish religion with them and raileth vpon Hen. the 4. for resistance against Popes of Rome yet hee cryeth out on Rome for sucking the gaine of the world and saith Gaude mater nostra Roma Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. quia aperiuntur catarractae the sauroruÌ„ in terra vt ad te confluant riui aggeres nummorum in magna copia our mother Rome reioyce saith he because the sluces and Gulfes of gaine are opened on earth Mother Rome sacketh the treasure of the earth that streames and heapes of money may come flowing in to thee in great abuÌ„dance Thus the Abbat though hee were her deare sonne yet crieth out on his mother Rome for sucking the treasures of the erth And now because his mother Rome hath byn kept so long fasting froÌ„ England the gulf of her great gaine stopped there not only she is hungred but with rauening iawes gapeth coÌ„tinuallie ouer it by practise of monstrous treasons and rebellioÌ„s to pluck it in again Thus of the taking and deposing of Henrie the 4. and of the Bishops that were chiefe instruments and actors in it The fourth chiefe point of the discourse of this storie The 4. The death of Henry the 4. and the crueltie on his corps is of the death of Henry the fourth and the crueltie shewed on his corse After that Henrie the Emperor was of the bishops aforesaide thus deposed and dispoyled of the robes of estate and the Imperiall ensignes he fled to Limburg and lighting on a prince a hunting Alb.

father The Abbat of Vrsperg with too much partialitie and bitternesse against Henry the 4. Io. Cusp in vita Henr. 4. corrupteth the storie and therefore of Cuspinian one of their owne religion is reproued as also HermaÌ„nus Contract HermaÌ„nus Blondus Platina Merula Mouthie Merula and such others The Italian wryters of stories as Blond Plat. such others are 2. great pleasers of Popes and deliuer not the storie with such indifferencie between Emperours and Popes as they should doe because of the partialitie of religion and of their Countrie and their intertainment following after Popes The freshe fountaine Arethusa of Sicilie by the salte Sea is counted a strange thing in nature Italian wryters of stories Arethusa the fouÌ„taine And in writing of stories it strange for an Italian writer of stories to be free from partialitie of Popes being so neere them and eftsoones appertayning to them as Platina and Blondus and such others Therfore with good iudgment they must be red to sifte the corne from the chaffe the storie from the partialitie of Popes But the Abbat of Vrsperg though he be not of the Countrie of Popes yet because he hath a Pope in his conscience as rolled on the groundes of Poperie runneth thicke with dregges of partialitie to Popes Abbas Vrsperg in chr in an 1106. and so corrupteth the clerenesse of the storie No maruaile though hee call Henry the 4. thus cursed of the Popes an Arch-pirate and Arch-heritike Nabucodonezer and Iulian. Iohn Cuspinian who was of Maximilians councell and of their owne religion Io. Cusp in vita Hen. 4. prayseth Henry the fourth for an eloquent liberall and godly Prince sharpe of wit and warlike and luckie in the warres that fought moe battailes in his owne person then either M. Marcellus or Iulius Caesar the famous warriers in the stories Thus Cuspinians prayses of him Otto Frisin Episc ann lib. 7. cap. 11. Bishoppe Otto reporteth the opinions of others touching his almes deedes and many workes of mercie donne by him in respecte whereof they think he merited of God as out of the humors of the darkenesse of that time they speake to haue the wanton conuersation of his youth wholie he was aliue to bee punished with such afflictions in this present world Thus Bishoppe Otto deliuereth the iudgmentes of others of him Albert Deane of Hanburg and deuout of their side Alber. Kranz Saxo. Lib. 5. cap. 24. yet can not bury in silence his condigne prayses he sayeth hee was a noble a learned a valiant Prince of goodly personage fit for a king and that by the space of 50. yeeres kept the soueraigntie of the publike state yet hee inspergeth him with great vices and pride that would not stoupe Thus Alberts report of him Touching Pope Gregorie the 7. that first cursed him Abbas Vrsperg in chr in an 1800. Brixiense Con. he is charged in the councell of Brixia with haynous crimes and that he is a Necromansier and that dealeth with a familiar And the Bishoppes in the councell of Brixia referre themselues to the authoritie of a councell at Mens holden against him before Ab. Vrsperg in an 1076. Worma concil And in the councell of Wormes hee is likewise charged with great infamies Otto Fris Epis lib. 6. cap. 35. Bishoppe Otto sayeth that hee was the first of his knowledge in the Roman stories that tooke vpon him to excommunicate and curse a Roman Emperour or king The Abbat of Vrsperg saith Ab. Vrsperg in an 74. that vnder him the whole Church began to be turmoild with new errors of schismes that neuer were hard before In the couÌ„cel of Wormes likewise he is charged that the Church of God through the abuse of his nouelties is indaungered with so sore a tempest Abbas Vrspergensis in an 1076. Thus the Bishoppe of his owne religion and wryters of his own side reporte of him and of the strange euils of schismes and diuisions neuer heard of before and of the abuse of his nouelties No marueile then though he were the firste that vndertook the excoÌ„municating cursing of a Roman Emperour as Otto voucheth and rent the whole Church with schismes and the ciuill and publike state with diuisions and rebellions Bishoppe Otto when hee commeth to the point of the cause touching the deposing of Henry the fourth from his Emperiall state vppon the Popes curse Bishop Otto suspendeth his iudgment passeth it ouer without interlasing his owne iudgement and opinion of the proceedings thereof and sayeth all which thinges whether they were lawfullye or vnlawfullye done wee doe not determine Thus Bishoppe Otto kepte his iudgment in suspence Otto Frising Episc lib. 7. cap. 11. touching the proceedinges against Henry the fourth by laying downe the storie with profession that hee will not lay downe any iudgement of it May wee not as it were at a loupe and hole see the day So we may sound his iudgment by his profession that hee will giue noe iudgement in the cause If hee had liked the Popes curse and the proceedinges against the Emperour he needed not to be daintie of his iudgment whereof no daunger ensued to him which was so plausible on the Popes side and at which the Popes Clergie as it were clapped their handes But because it was a bone in his conscience to haue such outrage done to Princes vppon the Popes curse hee keepeth his conscience cleere for giuing iudgment in the case though otherwise for his religion right on the Popes side the Monkes of Morimond Abbey among whome he dyed and the order of the Cistertian Monkes which he professed might witnesse Aeneas Syl. in Hist Austral If hee should lay downe his iudgment against the Pope in fauour of Henry the fourth he shuld plucke the Pope and his Clergie vpon him Then Otto one of their owne Bishoppes and a professed Monke of the Cistertians order Heretikes against the Pope Henry the 4. Wigbert Archbishop of Rauenna Wekil Archbishop of Mens Abbas Vrspergensis in chro in an 1085. should be an heretike against the Pope also as Henry the fourth was made an heretke for opposing himselfe against the Pope and Wigbert Archbishop of Rauenna was made an heretike because of Henry the fourth he was promoted to be bishoppe of Rome in the place of Gregorie the seuenth and as Wekil the Archbishop of Mens was called an Arch-heretike in the councell of Quintiligoburg as Vrspergensis calleth it because in holding disputatioÌ„ against Geberherdus Archbishop of Salzburg for Henrie the 4. his soueraigne Lord he laid downe his reasons of the preiudicing his Soueraigne by the Pope other Princes and that he being dispoyled of his dominion in Saxoni before Duke Rodolphs rebellion was not lawfully to bee called We kill his disputations for Henry the 4. iudged and condemned They were so netled with the disputation of VVekill the Archbishop of Mens for his Soueraigne that they called an other councel at Quintilingoburg where

Otto Bishoppe of Ostia the Popes Legate was Ab. Vrsperg in chro in an 1086. and there VVekill was made an heretike and called an Arch-heretike This Otto president of this Councel was after the death of Gregory the 7. who died at Salern made Pope in his place and then hee fell a cursing of Henry the 4. as his predecessor had done No maruaile though hee were so apt to coyne heresies and to challenge them to bee Arch-heretikes which helde disputations for the Emperor against the Pope Trowe you what should Otto Bishop of Frising haue bin in their mouthes Wherefore Bishop Otto leaueth his iudgement in suspence if hee had intermedled his iudgement for Henry the 4. against the popes proceedings Would they not haue forgotten his religion his monkerie of Morimond the order of Cistertians whereof hee was professed he should haue been an Arch-heretike as Wigbert and Wekil were Therefore Bishoppe Otto seeing the daunger though he were of the Imperiall house himselfe lappeth it vp in his owne conscience and saith he wil not deale in determining the cause but layeth down the storie Yet hath he left a loupe-hole to loke into his iudgment Thus he qualifieth it with soft words videntur tameÌ„ saith hee culpandi sacerdotes per omnia qui regnum suo gladio quÃ¨m ipsi ex regum habent gratia ferire conantur Otto Frisin Episc lib. 7. in Prolog Popes haue receiued their swordes of Princes which they turne on theÌ„ Yet saith he the Priests algates seeme culpable which take in hand to strike the kingdome with their sword which of the grace of Princes they haue receiued Thus Otto And least he should seeme to haue launched to deepe by and by he layeth to a plaster except parhaps saith he they thinke to follow Dauid which first by Gods might ouerthrew the Philistine and after killed him with his owne sword He dare not bide by it least he able for it as the Emperour did Therefore he frameth an excuse for them out of Dauids example who killed the Philistine with his own sword So they are Dauids in this construction and Princes Philistines which are killed with their owne sworde that they gaue to them But howsoeuer Otto seemeth to houer and not to giue directe iudgement in the Emperours cause for drawing himselfe in suspicion and daunger also And howsoeuer he gloseth this example for them they are Philistines in the right intendment which contrarie to Goddes ordinances strike Dauids and Princes elected of God with the sword that of the grace of Princes they haue receiued Otto pointeth at the sore but feareth to lanche it too deepe in saying that Popes strike Princes with the sword which they haue receiued of them The Primitiue Church was striken with the sworde of Princes for the faith of Christ the Popes Church striketh Princes against the ordinance of Christ with the sworde which they haue receiued of Princes Pope Paschal the second who cursed both the father and the sonne Henry the fourth first Pope Pasc cursed the father and the sonne and Henry the fifth after the death of his father in the councell of Rome saieth the Primitiue Church florished with the blood of martirs before God but not before men After in the ende kinges and Emperours The councell of Rome and Roman Princes were conuerted Qui matrem suam ecclesiam sicut boni filij honestauerunt Who to their mother the Church didde honestie and honour in aduauncing her Abbas Vrsperg in aâ— 1112. And bestowed landes reuenewes and royalties on her as Constantine the Emperour and other the faithfull and the Church began to florish then so well before God as â—â—fore men So farre the wordes of Pope Pachal He confesseth from whom they haâ—â— their principalities and royalties and the sworde of which Otto speaketh which they haue turned vpon Princes of whom they first receiued it Further at the same time Pope Paschal said as Albertus Kranz and the Abbat of Vrsperg reporteth his wordes much like in effect Habeat saith he mater ecclesiae dona principum Let mother Church saith hee haue the giftes of Princes dispence dispose and giue them to whom lawfully she may wil. Thus farre Pope Paschals words It is apparant by their own confession froÌ„ wheÌ„c they haue reuenewes royalties principalities and their worldly countenance and the sword mentioned of Otto before If the donation of Constan as they cal it were true as Laurence Valla a noble Roman with long discourse proueth it to be forged yet from the Roman Emperour they claime it Laurence Valla against the donation of Constant But Gregorie the 7. who cursed Henry the fourth before Paschal the second setteth Pope Paschal to schoole and fetteth his conuayance of Rome from Christ Grego 7. Alb Kranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 7. as Alb. reporteth the verse which with a Crowne he sent to Duke Rodolph that by rebellion against Henry the â—â—â—th he should winne the Crowne and wear ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ A fit Champion to giue first onset on Emperours as Otto his opinion is to curse them to strike theÌ„ with the sword which they haue receiued of theÌ„ as an vnkind Impe persecuting plaging the Empire out of which it sprang Hederae Anaplexicaulis Mathe. in lib. 2. Dios cap. 75. Theophrast wryteth of Hedera the Iui that is called Amplexicaulis Matheolus citing it because it groweth about trees and girdeth them in so ouergroweth them in the end that the trees decay and it florisheth in the decayes of the trees as he saith Necat exiccat ablato alimento it killeth starueth trees by sucking away their nurrishment from them So Popedom hath been to Thempire it growed first out of Thempire after it hath so ouergrowen girded in continually sucked the Empire that it hath starued in manner Thempire The Church of Rome mounted in the decaies of the Empire Otto Fris Epis lib. 7. in prologo in respect of the former estate therof and florisheth it self in the decayes of it and by the fall of the auncient Empire Emperors it is mounted aloft Bishop Otto saith by the decay of TheÌ„pire the Church is growen to a great mountaine and began to grow in great state and authoritie And before he meÌ„tioneth the opinioÌ„s of some Non desunt saith he qui dicunt deum ad hoc regnum immini volitisse vt ecclesia exaltetur There lacke not saith he that say that therfore God would haue the kingdome to deâ— that the Church should be exalted thus Oâ—to Thei glorie of the exaltation of their Church by the decayes of the Empire and ruines of Emperors whoÌ„ by treasons rebellions and outrage of subiectes against their Princes and of the sonne against his owne father they haue ouerthrowen How doth Antichrist exalt himselfe and lift vp his hornes as Vrspergensis spake of lifting vppe the hornes of the Church of Rome Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. by plucking Henry

the fourth and faithfull Bishoppes to him out of their graues doth he not exalt himselfe by the oppression of the liuely word of God and of Princes and ciuill gouernments and such horrible and monstrous outrages in the world But Otto lamenteth the great outrages of the world in this exaltation of the Church of Rome Rome it selfe was not free from them as the mother of the mischeifes Otto Frising Episc lib. 6. cap. 35. For as Otto saith Roma obsessa capta vastata Papa super Papam c. Rome it selfe saith he was besieged taken ransacked Pope vpon Pope and king vpon king c. And because of the number of the great vnnaturall outrages of those times of Hen. the 4. and Henry the 5. of which he writeth he sayth these our times for of his own experience not onely of report he wryteth the storie of those times as very neere them himselfe for hee wrote the storie of Friderick the first vnder whom he liued and dyed in great honour which are thought to be the last times drawing former sinnes to their ende by the outrage of sinnes threatning the end of the world If this he spake of his time about 4. Outrages of sinnes a signa of the worlde drawing to an ende hundred yeeres agone and more what shall we say of the outrage of greeuous sinnes and practises and vnnatural and monstrous treasons in these latter times in which the Deuil finding his time to be but short as S. Iohn sayth in the Reuelations striueth to winne the mastery of himselfe Reue. 12. and to exceede himselfe in contriuing and practising bloody treasons and outrages against the Church of God and Princes set vp of God to bee nurses thereof But our comforte is 1. Cor. 1. faithfull is the Lord as Paul sayth by whom we are called into the fellowship of his son Iesus Christ And thus he comforteth the Thes faithfull is he which called you who will also doe it 1. Thes 5. And feeling experieÌ„ce of this comfort courage in himself to Tim. he saith 2. Tim. 4. the Lord wil deliuer me froÌ„ euery euil worke wil preserue me to his heauenly kingdom The hairs of our head are told our states euer are in his sight this prouideÌ„ce preueÌ„teth immineÌ„t dauÌ„gers Ther is a monument or memoriall booke written before him as Malachi calleth it Zepherziccharon Mala. 3. for them that feare the Lord and for theÌ„ that thinke on his name God geue vs grace with hearty prayer to sue to him that ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ memoriall booke may continually bee before him for the long and prosperous preseruation of Elizabeth our Queene against al immineÌ„t daungers conspiracies and treasons at home and abroad whatsoeuer The 6. The Iudgement of God on Henry the 5. for his rebellion and treasons against his father The sixte of the chiefe pointes of my discorse of this storie is the iudgment of God on Henry the 5. for his treason and rebellion against his father Wherin I will note the iudgement of God on him touching the cause touching the cursing of Popes touching the treason and rebellion of his owne subiects touching his warres touching his treasure touching lacke of fruit and touching his own body First note touching the cause First touching the cause wherefore his father was cursed of the popes It was obiected to him of the Bishoppes that deposed him Albert reporting it out of the Chronicles of Germany for that hee would not yeeld to Popes the ancient right prerogatiue of the Empire from Charles the great 1. Emperor of the West continued by the space of 300. yeeres vnder 63 Bishops of Rome Cuspinian witnessing it Touching the inuesting of Churches which they called Symony or the Symonical heresie and excomminged those that receiued such inuesting of Princes by lay hand as they terme it Henry the 5. Henry the 5. his sonne after he came to the Empire maintayned the same right and auncient prerogatiue of the Empire against Popes and was purposed neuer during life to leaue it Ab. Vrsper in chro in an 1122. as Vrspergensis noteth least he should preiudice the honour of his kingdom While it was his fathers case he took part with Popes against him While his father opposed himselfe against Popes in the defence of the auncient right and prerogatiue of the Empire he by practise of Popes and vpon pretence of religion opposed himself against his father professed obedience to the Sea of Rome Ab. Vrsperg in chro in an 1105. condemned the heresie afore said betrayed his owne father tooke armes vpon him and rebelled in the Empire against him But after by persecution he had worn out his owne father by the practise and backing of Popes and their Clergie and that he was Emperor himselfe and it was now his owne case then was the case cleane altered It was heresie no more it was vnlawfull obedience to the Sea of Rome to yeeld vp the ancient right and priueleges of the Empire Then could he send aunsweare by his souldiers to Pope Paschal that such demaundes were not to be graunted because it was written â—â—ue to Caesar those thinges that are Caesars and to God those that are Gods Then the case remayning on his conscience was cleane chaÌ„ged Then he made not conscience to lay violent hands vpon Pope Paschal by his souldiers in the Church and to carry him prisoner into his campe there to put him in sure gard â—il by solemne instrument he had yeelded vp the claime Alb. Kranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 33. as Albert wryteth it But while it was his fathers case it was heresie in him religion in himselfe to rebell against his father Otto Frisin Episc lib. 7. cap. 8. as Bishoppe Otto said Rebellionem sub specie religionis eÃ² quÃ²d pater eius a Romanis Pont. excoÌ„municatus esset molitur Rebellion vnder colour of religion he attemteth because his father was excomminged of the Roman Bishops Religion was the pretence but ambitioÌ„ of soueraigntie appeareth to bee practise as the same Otto saith Otto Frising Epis lib. 7. cap. 9. The 2. note The Roman kingdom for ambitioÌ„ to raigne was diuided not onely ciuilly but parricidially Thus Otto touching the cause wherfore hee rebelled against his owne father The second note is of the iudgment of God touching the cursings of Popes on him also Pope Pasc the 2. which cursed the father tyced Henry the 5. the son to treason and rebellion against him and who to the counsel of mens wher his father required audience sent his Legats to renue and confirme his old curses against him after that Henry the 5. Ab. Vrsper in chro in an 1106. Paschal 2 Gelatius 1. Calixtus 2. was Emperour for the same cause and claime fell a cursing him also 3. Popes in a row Paschal the 2. Gelasius the 2. and Calixtus the 2. did set on him with cursing and banning for the same cause They

hee had conceiued before Thus what trauailing is The 2. of this part Who setteth them on trauaile The 2. point of this part is who setteth theÌ„ on to trauaile After the Diuel is entred them as he did into Iudas and that they are resolute in their treasons wicked intents he mightilie effectually worketh in children of disobedience as the woorde ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ importeth which S. Paul vseth Ephe. 2. Then they fall in trauaile with them if they stay he wil set spurres to theÌ„ by secret suggestioÌ„s affections passioÌ„s For of mad moodes raging passions the wicked in the scriptures are called Reshaim because they are vnstable cannot stay in one state as Pagnin voucheth out of R. AbrahaÌ„ The prophet Esai coÌ„pareth theÌ„ to troublesome Seas that caÌ„not rest Esay 57. The diuel rideth in their humors as horses he neuer leueth spurring of theÌ„ with inward suggestions outward occasions occurrents till he set theÌ„ in trauaile They must needs go as coÌ„monly they say whoÌ„ the Diuel driueth he driueth them on in their own humors passions like horses mules without vnderstanding Psal 31. as Dauid saieth till hee bring them to their trauaile to work his will When the good spirit was departed from king Saul 1. Sam. 16. the euill spirit did towse trouble him as the scripture saith Turbauit cum spiritus malus Ã domino the euil spirit sent of God did trouble him so the euill spirit will be continually troubling tesing of them on to their trauail Thus of the second note who setteth them on to trauaile The 3. note is The third of this part How they watch for oportunities 1. Sam. 18. how after they begin to trauail they watch for oportunities occasions After they fall in trauaile they bend theÌ„selues to take all occasions oportunities as king Saul did against Dauid hee deuised to haue him slaine in the wars of the Philistines and at home he sought to dispatch him WheÌ„ Dauid plaid before him as hee sate in his house the euill spirit being on him 1. Sam. 19. sodainly in a rage he would haue nailed him to the wal with his speare if Dauid had not shunned the blow fled froÌ„ him He sent murderers to his house to kill him in his bed but by Michol his wiues helpe he escaped out at a window Hee chased him froÌ„ wildernes to wildernes he huÌ„ted him froÌ„ couert to couert as a birde as some translate the beginning of Dauids Psalme Psal 11. In the Lorde put I my trust how say yee then to my soule that she shuld flie as a bird vnto the hil For lo the vngodly bend their bow make readie their arrowes wtin their quiuers that they may priuily shoot at them which are true of heart Thus how his enemies bended their forces to do him mischiefe 2. Sam. 31. and watch all occasions And in another Psalm he saith Psal 56. They hold altogether and keep themselues close and mark my steppes while they lay wayt for my soule And likewise in another Psalme Psal 10. Hee sitteth lurking in theeuish corners of the streetes and priuilie in his lurking dens doth hee murther the innocent his eyes are set against the pore for he lyeth wayting secretly euen as a Lion lurketh in his denne that hee may rauish the poore He rauisheth the poore when hee getteth him into his net Thus farre his words After Saul fell in trauaile with mischiefe against him hee sought for occasions to take him at a sodaine lift and to rid him and hee neuer gaue him vp 1. Sam. 31. till in the warres against the Philistines to whose swordes he thought to haue betraide him hee was himselfe wouÌ„ded and after being distressed with diuelishe dispayre furiously hee fell on his owne sword and killed himselfe So his wicked trauaile turned on himselfe It is a notable example to shewe howe after the wicked fall in trauaile with their diuelish intents they are readie to take all occasions and occurrentes within without in bedde abroade to accomplishe their prepensed plats Cicero When Catilin and the Conspiratours against the state of Rome while it was as yet heathen trauayled with their treasons and conspiracies Cicero being then one of their consuls and great gouernours of the state complayned that nether his house nor his bedde could be free and safe from their trayterous attemptes and that they would haue giuen him a bloody breakefast in his bed but that they were preuented by a watch and gard prouided against them Isboseth 2. Sam. 4. Isboseth the son af Saul as he rested on his bed in the heat of the day Duke Hum. Fabian the 2 part in anno 1447. Cron. Fruct temp part 7. Edward 2. was slaine of Rechab and Baanah Humfrey Duke of Gloster and vncle to Henry the 6. and in his minoritie protector of the land was found sodenly strangly dead on his bed Edward the 2. surnamed of Carnaruen because he was there borne as he was fast a sleepe in his bedde in the Castle of Corf as the Chronicle called Fructus Tenpots noteth but in the Castle of Barkley as Fabian sayth where he was prisoner sodenly hadde a greate Table caste on him therewith to presse him to death Fabian in an 1326. Valentinian the Emp. and by trayterous and cruell meanes was made away Valentinian the Emperor was slaine by the practise of Eugenius and treason of those that were of his Chamber Frederick the second Emperor of that name as he lay on his sick bed was stifled with a pillow as Albert by reporte of some noteth it of Manfrid his base sonne Peter of Besinguen K. of Cyprus a victorious Prince vpon Turkes Souldans as Iohn Froysarth writeth who tooke Alexandria in Egypt Sir Iohn Froysart the 3. 4. booke the 40. chap. Triple in Surry Laias in Armeni Scitalie in Turkie with diuers others was trayterously killed in his bedde of his owne brother called Iaquet by practise of the infidels who so greatly feared his forces Albert the Emp. Alber. KraÌ„z. Wan lib. 7. cap. 32. Albert the Emperour as he passed by the banke of the riuer of Rein slenderly accompanied was sodenly set on and slayne of his neere kinsman Iohn his owne brothers sonne Aurelius the Emperour as hee was on his way Alber. Kranz Saxo. Lib. 3. cap. 3. Ro. Gag in an Re. Fran. lib. 2. was of his own traine sodenly slaine as Albertus writeth Chilperich king of Soisons in Fraunce as he came from hunting slenderly garnished with retinue was of one LauÌ„dri a noble man of his court and by counsell of Queene Fredegund his wife at a soddaine slayne as he drew homeward neere his Palace Fabian the 5 part cap. 117 as Fabian telleth but within the court of his Palace according to the French Chronicle as he light froÌ„ his horse Edward the sonne

play with them Plinie reporteth that Plut. telleth of a familiar Aspe bred and fed at a table in Egypt which had yong ones in the house that of one of the yong the good maÌ„s son of the house was killed It is not good hauing trusting a familiar serpent Though his poyson seeme qualified it is alwayes ready and at sometimes more ranke The Scorpion hath a fawning tayle but a deadly sting and his taile alwayes waueth wayting all occurrentes and occasions as Plinie sayth Plin. nat Hist lib. 11. cap. 25. Semper cauda in ictu est ne quando desit occasioni So the wicked though they fawne neuer so finely glose neuer so pleasantly yet continually they wait for their occasions and opportunities The murtherers that were sent into king Sigisbert his campe of Queene Fredigond to kill him as Gagwin saith In familiam regis Sigisberti se insinuaÌ„t Ro. Gag in an Re. Fran. lib. 2. did wind themselues into the familie of king Sigisbert This is the first point of their practise in the Deuils art by glosing hypocrysie first to come in place and after to wait for opportunitie Sobna the hollow hypocrite to king Hezechiah and the state Esay 22. was gotten vnder the winges of the godly king 2. Sam. 15. Achitophel the traytor was neere and a great person about king Dauid 1. Reg. 1 Absalon the rebel and traytor came out of of his owne bowels Adonias his sonne ouerreached by aspiring to that was not alotted to him If the Arrian heretikes hadde not wound themselues into the Court of Constantine the Emperour surnamed the great Arrians got into courts of Emperors â—eâ—râ— about them and into the Court of Constantius his sonne the Emperour after him and in to the Court of Valentinian the Emperor and Iustina the Empresse wife to Valentinian the Emp. the elder of that name into the court of Valentinian the yonger the son of Iustina aforesaid and Emperour they could neuer haue spred their heresies ouer so many Countries and so oppresse with persecutions the Church of God Ruff. Hist Eccle. lib. 1. cap. 11. An Arrian Priest that was a priuie practiser of the Arrians heresie gotte himselfe in house and neere about Constantia sister to Constantine the Emperour as Ruffius witnesseth Vbi multa familiaritas saith hee copiam tribuit paulatim sermonem caepit inspergere inuidiam dicens Arrio generatam When saith hee great familiaritie offered him opportunitie he began first by little and little to insperg and sprincle her with words of his humor saying that enuie was procured against Arrius Thus far Ruffinus We see the first point in the execution of diuelish plats so wel against the state of religion as against the royall persons and estates of Princes is to wind themselues into familiaritie fauour and credite after to attend their purpose The serpent wil first be cruiling and when there is any hole open he will winde himselfe in If those cunning cumpassers should goe plaine to worke as ramping Lions rauening Woolues on their pray by and by they would be betrayed Therefore they doe it by circumstance and by crooks Socrat. Eccle. Hist lib. 1. cap. 25. This Arrian Priest Chaplaine to Constantia aforsaid was growen into such credit with her that at her death with special recoÌ„mendation of him she put him to ConstaÌ„tine her brother the Emperour Then the slie Serpent began to craule into Constantine his bosome also and was entred so deepe into fauour and credit with him that hee was the man with Constantine the Emperor in such singular credite and trust that at his death he put him in trust to conuey his testameÌ„t sealed to Constantius his son and Emperour after him Socrat. Eccle. Hist lib. 1. cap. 39. And by that occasion so he won the hart of Constantius and so wound himselfe hauing opportunitie and accesse at will into his hart and humors Ruff. Hist Eccle. lib. 1. cap. 11. that as Ruffinus saith he suffered himselfe to be ruled of him whose desire was to rule al. TheÌ„ he so plyed him after he had gotten the pan by the stele that he poysoned him with his heresie and many that were neere about him So the Arrian Priest got more by his creeping in the Court by insperging his humors heresie there by reason of opportunitie aduantages of fauour accesse theÌ„ the whole brood of blasphemous Arrians abroad Eusebius Socra Hist eccle lib. 1. cap. 37. Euseb Bishop of Nicomedia a practiser of that side had such countenance froÌ„ the court that he minaced Alexander Archbishoppe of ConstaÌ„tinople to procure him to be deposed vnlesse he wold admit Arrians whose name the horrible heresie doth keepe into the Church CoÌ„munion fellowship of the faithful Eudoxius Theod. Hist eccle lib. 2. cap. 26. Eudoxius the Bishoppe of Germanicia an Arrian supported by those that were neer to Constantius the Emperour intruded himselfe to bee Bishop of Antioch with mislike of the Emperor at first but he salued it by those that were of his side about him after tyrannously hee thrust himself in to be Archbishop of Constantinople with discontentment of the Emperour But what dared he not by the support of those that were his complices in the Court Auxentius the Arrian got to be Bishop of Mil. in the west Theod. Hist eccle lib. 2. cap. 27. by whose practise the princes of the Gothes were infected with the Arrian heresie And neuer coulde the Arrians haue so hoised vppe their sailes so spread theÌ„selues in the world but for practise of those that crept into the Court Sozo Eccle. Hist lib. 6. cap. 23. credit fauour of Princes who by reason of their opportunities importunities continual accesse were in their eies eares to procure assistance and countenance to their sect to disgrace discouÌ„tenance the zelous professors of true faith So the trauaile of the wicked when once they are resolute in errors plats of treasoÌ„ is first for the place oportunity after for their purpose if they may win the fouour of the place neuer Roscius could more cuÌ„ningly playe his partes on the Roman Stage where hee did excel theÌ„ they can manage their plats of treasons if they maye haue their course but that sodainly they are checked froÌ„ heauen They can bow to the bent yeeld to humors as waxe and frame theÌ„selues to all aduantages That the Chamelion hath in nature by chauÌ„ging of so many colours Volat. li. 25. the wicked haue in continuall practise by chaunging all colours of hypocrisie and infidelitie The rauening fish Polipus chaungeth himselfe to the colour of the ground where hee lyeth for his praye Plin. lib. 9. cap. 19. Ouid met lib. 11. Morpheus mutabilities chauÌ„ges as Poets describe him may signifie the monstrous mutabilities chaunges and vnstabilities of the mindes of the wicked after once they are conceiued and

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