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A36743	The life of Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived in the times of Henry the V. and VI. Kings of England written in Latin by Arth. Duck ; now made English and a table of contents annexed.; Vita Henrici Chichele archiepiscopi Cantuariensis sub regibus Henrico V. et VI. English	Duck, Arthur, Sir, 1580-1648.	1699 (1699)	Wing D2430; ESTC R236	99,580	208

Pope in behalf of the Archbishop who had incurr'd his displeasure for opposing the excessive Power of the Court of Rome And indeed it was but reasonable that he who for promoting the common good of all and maintaining the Honour of the Kingdom so little dreaded the Pope's Anger should be defended by the publick Authority But the Bishop of Winchester beside his Title of Cardinal had the power of Legate in England conferr'd upon him by the Pope with a very large Commission or as they commonly term'd it a Faculty which Power he exercis'd with so great Avarice and got together such a prodigious Wealth that he was generally styl'd the Rich Cardinal The Year after this he return'd into England and having open'd his Commission in the presence of Humphry Duke of Glocester the Protector and many of the Bishops and Nobility Richard Caudray who was appointed Proctor for the King by the Duke of Glocester and the Privy Council expresly declar'd That by a particular Prerogative of the Kings of England which they had enjoy'd ever since the memory of man no Legate from the Pope could come into England without the King's leave and therefore if the Cardinal of Winchester by vertue of his Legantine Office should act any thing contrary to this Right of the King 's that he in the King's Name did interpose and disown all his Authority Whereupon the Cardinal promis'd openly before the Duke of Glocester and all that were present that he would not exercise his Office of Legate without the King's leave and that he would act nothing in it that might any ways infringe or derogate from the Rights Immunities and Privileges of the King or Kingdom Now upon his being made Cardinal and Legate he was oblig'd to lay down his Place of Lord Chancellor Laid down the Office of Chancellor as obliged which he did the Year before in the Parliament at Westminster he ought also to have been removed from the Privy Council but in respect of the Nobility of his Birth and his near alliance to the King by a particular favour he was allow'd to keep his Place there except when any But kept his Place in the Council with exception matter was to be debated between the King and the Pope for then it was expresly concluded that he should not be present which Limitation was confirm'd y Rot. Parliam ann 8 H. 6. the next Year by Act of Parliament and order'd to be entred in the Journals of the Privy Council Now the chief Reason that mov'd the Pope to create the Bishop of Winchester a Cardinal was that he might employ him in the War that he design'd The Pope rais'd imm against the Bohemians Who had pull'd down the Monasteries c. against the Bohemians who having embrac'd the Doctrine of Wickliff had pull'd down the Monasteries and Images and having abolished almost all the Rites and Ceremonies of the Romish Church had openly revolted from the Government of the Pope He therefore The Cardinal made General in the Bohemian War c. made him his General in the Bohemain War and appointed him Legate in Hungary Bohemia and all Germany with a far larger Commission by which He could pardon Rapes on Nuns c. he was impower'd to pardon Rapes committed upon Nuns to dispense with Marriages contracted within the fourth degree of Consanguinity with the Age of Persons to be admitted to Orders and Benefices with Interdicts and many other things which were contrary to the Constitutions of the Canon Law He was to demand a Tenth of the English Clergy for the War he was also order'd to demand a Tenth of the English Clergy for the Service of this War For this cause the Archbishop being sollicited by the Pope's Bull and being also press'd by Letters from the King to consider of raising Money for carrying on the War in France call'd a Synod at London which began on the 5 th of July In their first Session at the request of the Archbishop of York Lord Chancellor and Walter Hungerford Lord Treasurer they granted the King half In the next Synod half a Tenth is given the King a Tenth The Synod was afterwards prorogu'd by reason of the excessive heat of the Summer to St. Martin's day in November following and then again to the 29 th of October the next Year at which time the Archbishop of York was sent to them again from the King together with the Duke of Norfolk the Earls of Warwick Stafford and Salisbury th e Lords Cromwell Tiptoft and Hungerford at whose desire a Tenth and a half And in another a Tenth and an half was granted and solemn Processions were order'd to be made for the success of the Duke of Bedford who went on Duke of Bedford had besieg'd Orleans prosperously and had now besieg'd Orleans a noble City upon the River Loyre These Concessions of Tenths which were granted so readily by the z 8 H. 6. c. 1. Synod were rewarded by an Act made in the Parliament holden at this time at Westminster by which The same Priviledge was granted to the Clergy which the Members of the House of Commons do enjoy when they are chosen to serve in Parliament For those Grants the Members of the Synod c. were freed from Arrests which was that neither they nor their Servants should be arrested while they were assembled in Convocation nor in their journy thither But Conzo Zuolanus the Pope's Nuntio came often to the Synod and pleaded in behalf of the Pope but to no purpose The Pope's Nuntio prevail'd not in the Synod When he could not obtain of them a Supply for the War with the Bohemians which he had sollicited in a long and pressing Oration he produc'd the For shewing his Letters for a Tenth Pope's Letters before the Synod in which he signified that he had impos'd a Tenth upon the Kingdom of England for the support of the Bohemian War which so incensed the whole Synod that they absolutely denied to grant a Tenth However at the importunity of the Pope He was denied but got 8 d. per Mark from Livings With a Salvâ praerogativâ Regiâ they gave him Eight pence in every Mark out of all Benefices according to their respective values provided that this grant were not contrary to the King's Prerogative and the Laws of the Land After this John Jourdelay John Galle Robert Heggley Ralph Mungyn Thomas Garenter all men in Orders with several others were brought before the Synod who were accus'd of Heresy for holding divers corrupt Opinions concerning the Sacrament of the Altar the Adoration of Images Religious Pilgrimages and the Invocation of Saints for maintaining that the Pope was Antichrist and not God's Heresy in holding the Pope to be Antichrist c. Vicegerent that the Divine Oracles were contain'd only in the Scriptures and not in the Legends or Lives of the

pence in the Pound out of their Revenues In this Synod holden at London the Archbishop complain'd heavily of a late Injury offer'd him by Pope Eugenius who by his sole Authority had given the Bishoprick of Ely in Commendam to Lewis Archbishop of Roan and by his The Pope gives away the Bishoprick of Ely in Commendam The Archbishop in Synod opposes the Affair Bull had confirm'd him in the Government of that See and therefore he order'd the Synod to consider how to put a stop to this Affair which was never attempted before by any Pope And indeed such a Precedent as this would have been of very pernicious consequence to Posterity but Philip Morgan who was then Bishop of Ely outliving the Archbishop of Roan by this means Which was frustrated by the Survivorship of the then Bishop the Pope's Design was frustrated After this Richard Carpenter Chancellor of Oxford desired of the Synod which had been prorogued to the 6 th of October in the name of both Universities that the Decree about conferring Propos'd in Synod to Renew a Decree that those not in Orders should not be beneficed Benefices upon those only that had taken Degrees in the Universities which was made in the Years 1417 and 1421. and limited to a certain term of Years which were now expir'd might be again renew'd The King also by his Wherein the King concurred and obtain'd it Letters desir'd the same of the Synod who readily assented to it upon the Conditions mention'd in the former Decrees Eugenius had now begun the Council at Ferrara and by his importunity and fair Promises had drawn thither John Palaeologus the Emperor and some of the Greek Bishops but the Plague breaking out there in the beginning of the next Year he remov'd the Council to The Council begun at Ferrara by occasion of the Plague removed to Florence Where the Greeks present submitted in Opinion to the Latines Which so offended the Greek Church that after their death they were not allow'd Christian Burial Sess 33. The Council of Basil maintain'd its Authority Florence where after long Disputes about the Procession of the Holy Ghost about Purgatory the Supremacy of the Pope and some other Controversies between the two Churches the Greeks who were there present submitted to the Opinion of the Latines For which they were so detested by the rest of the Greek Church that after their death they were not allow'd Christian burial nor would the Greeks recede from one Article of their ancient Creed In the mean time the Fathers at Basil being incens'd at the obstinacy of Eugenius by vertue of their Supreme Authority declar'd That the Pope was subordinate to a General Council that he had no power to dissolve transfer or prorogue it and that Eugenius for attempting all these things was guilty of Heresy they Deposed the Pope also divested him of the Papacy being convicted of Contumacy Simony Perjury and Impiety and i Aene. Sylv. lib. 2. de act Concil Basil having chosen Thirty two of the greatest note out of the four Nations Italians French Germans The English going to Ferrara and Spaniards for the English were all gone to Ferrara who were deputed with full power to elect a new Pope Amedeus Duke of Savoy who had left the Dukedom to his Son and retir'd to an Hermitage was created Pope and took the Name of Felix the Fifth There were then at Basil And by the Deputies of four other Nations Felix the Fifth elected Pope two of the greatest Lawyers of their time the Abbot Panormitanus and Ludovicus Romanus who were sent Ambassadors out of Italy from Alfonsus the great King of Arragon These two in a great many Speeches maintain'd that the Authority of a Council was superior to that of the Pope and condemn'd the Actions of Eugenius with so much sharpness and Eloquence that no one durst pretend to contradict them all which they have left recorded to Posterity in their Writings For Panormitanus in a k Panorm tract de Concil Basil in 5. vol. Book A defence of the Council at Basil which he put out in defence of the Council of Basil against Eugenius shews clearly That the Authority of a Council is more sacred than that of the Pope that the Pope hath no Jurisdiction over a Council but on the contrary is subordinate to it and may be call'd in question imprison'd and depos'd by it and that this punishment was justly inflicted upon Eugenius as contumacious a Deserter of the Faith an Enemy to the Church and guilty of Simony Perjury and Murther And in l Panor ad c. significasti n. 4. de elect ad c. licet de vitanda n. 8. eod tit ad c. fraternitatis n 1. de haeret several places of his Commentaries he speaks of the power of a Council as superior to that of the Pope Ludovicus Romanus in his Responses maintains That an Appeal may lawfully be made m Rom. Cons 521. from the Pope to a General Council that his Command for the n Rom. Cons 522. dissolution of it ought not to be obey'd and that he may be o Rom. Cons 523. depos'd by a Council He was a The high Character of Lodovic Romanus man saith p Aene. Sylv. lib. 2. de act Concil B sil Aeneas Sylvius worthy not only of Rome but also of Heaven it self and had he liv'd to have doubled his Age would have given matter not only of admiration but of astonishment to the World but Fortune envied Italy so extraordinary a Person and took him away at Basil where he died of the Plague having hardly past the Thirtieth Year of his Age. Aeneas Sylvius also himself was present and assisted at the Council both by his approbation of their Proceedings against Eugenius and by two Books which he put out of the History of that Council which afterwards being made Pope by the Name of Pius the Second he call'd in and would fain have suppress'd And indeed all the q Gl. in c. si Papa dist 40. Archid. Gemin Fran. ad c. in fidei favorem de haeret in 6. Card. Zab. cons 150. Anchar cons 181. Felin ad c. super literis n. 21. de rescript Jo. Royas de haeret n. 518. Fr. Marc. decis 944. Lawyers held this Opinion concerning the power of a Council over the Pope as long as they maintained the liberty of speaking and writing but in the next Age being brought under the subjection of the Popes they began to flatter them and having positively r Card. Jacobat lib. 3. de Concil n. 85. Hier. Alban de potest Pap. n. 240. Cataldin de Boncompag de potest Pap. n. 31. Alfon. Hoied de benefic incompat par 1. n. 86. condemn'd the Council In the next Age the Council of Basil is condemned of Basil they rais'd the power of the Pope above that of a Council and the whole Church and this power