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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16136	The true maner of electing of popes written by a French gentleman ... ; faithfully translated according to the French copie ; with a list of all the cardinalls therein assisting and others.; Traicte sommaire de l'election des papes. English. 1605	Bignon, Jérôme, 1589-1656.	1605 (1605)	STC 3057.7; ESTC S200	11,510	31

THE TRVE MANER of Electing of Popes Written by a French Gentleman resident in Rome at this last Election Faithfully translated according to the French Copie With a List of all the Cardinalls therein assisting and others AT LONDON Printed by Val. S. for Nathaniell Butter 1605. To my Lord the Duke of Vandosme MY most honourable Lord the late departure of our L. P. Clement the 8. hath administred vnto me a subiect and opportunity during the vacancie to search out more particularly all points about the election of Popes and the formes of proceeding therein as well ancient as moderne iudgeing it a very inconuenient matter that we should be so addicted to the investigation of the least strange antiquities as some doe employing their whole studie herein and to be ignorant of that which occurreth in our owne times and in other things which touch and more neerely concerne vs. I made therefore a little memoratiue with intent onely that it should haue been for mine owne particular vse that vpon any default of my memory heereafter I might haue had recourse to the same But my dutie for the honour you vouchsafe me in being inquisitiue after my studies hauing a care of the same obliging me to giue you aduise herein you did not only desire to see it as you haue alwaies an incredible affection to vnderstand and be acquainted with al honest and commendable maters with a spirit and courage which surmounteth your yeares but further hauing seen the same you thought it expedient that it should bee published and imprinted It being not altogether impertinent to my relations of Rome which before I presented to you reduced as they saiy within the length of a little foote according to the proportion of my age of fourteene yeares It shall bee therefore you my good Lord to whome they that reade this Treatise and take any contentment therein must giue thanks euen as on the contrary they that out of a prowd humor disdaine and contemne whatsoeuer is not done by themselues shall haue somthing to say against you and not against me that doth but onely obey and obserue your will and pleasure as I ought to doe hauing no other reference heerein but to demonstrate by all meanes possible that I am My Lord Your thrice humble and most obedient seruant Hierome Bignon A briefe Treatise touching the Election of the Pope CHAP. I. Divers maners wherein heretofore they have proceeded to the Election of the Popes THe maner of creating and choosing the Popes at Rome hath bin divers according to the diversitie of times Some will needes affirme that at the beginning he that was present Pope designed and ordained his successour and that Saint Peter after this maner established Saint Clement to governe and rule the Church after him But that so resting without an other example and not being followed afterwards one can make no rule nor order of it the same hauing taken no effect because Saint Clement succeeded not Saint Peter but Linus and after him Cletus and Saint Clement was but the third after Saint Peter We likewise find it written that Linus and Cletus were also chosen by Saint Peter not for successors nor to be intentiue on prayer and preaching neither to haue pontificall iurisdiction but onelie for ayde and assistaunce in externall and temporall matters And that Saint Clement woulde not embrace this establishment so much in modestie as by diuine inspiration for feare lest the example of such a nomination should bee drawne to a custome in succeeding times and that therby the power and authoritie of the Church might bee diminished in choosing or instituting of a Pastor As also by the Canon of the Apostles 76. And by the Counsell of Antioch Chap. 23. it is not lawfull for a Bishop being at the point of death to choose and appoint in his place a successour By which it may be gathered that this custome was vsurped by some Bishops of whome there are diuers examples Certaine it is that after Saint Clement all the Popes were made and created by the voyce and suffragation of the Clergie and Christian people of the Cittie of Rome and by the Bishoppes of other Prouinces that then were there The which was obserued till the schisme that fell out betweene Damasus and Vrsicinus about the yeare of our Lord 369. For Damasus being then chosen Pope by one part of the people and Clergie and Vrsicinus by another and both of them supported by their fauorites they both were desirous to hold and maintaine this dignitie which caused great factions and sedition and went so farre that they came to hand-blowes So that one day there was an hundred seauen and thirtie dead bodies left in a Church for which cause the Emperour afterward interposed his authoritie in case of any such scisme hereafter ordaining him whom he would haue to be Pope And in this sort was Damascene established by the authoritie of the Emperour Vaelentinian And not long after there occurred the like diuision betweene Eulalius and Bonifacius and great sedition was raised within the Cittie of Rome vppon this occasion and Symmachus the Gouernour not being able to appease or set downe anie order for the same in the ende by the meere authoritie and power Imperiall of the Emperour Honorius Boniface was made Pope This dignitie hauing bene before as it were sequestred for the time by the Emperour and committed to the Bishop of Spoleti that then was during the feast of Easter And so there grew then diuision betweene Symachus and Laurentius the which king Theodorick making knowne in an assemblie helde at Rauenna hee confirmed Symachus And afterwardes the cause of scisme ceasing to preuent the tumult and disorder that might grow thervpon the Emperour was alwaies wont in such elections to bee present And it came to this point that an election of the Pope made by the people and Cleargie was not auayleable except it were ratified and confirmed by the Emperour in that hee elected durst not proceede to his consecration without the Princes will and consent vnto whom for the right and prerogatiue of confirmation a certaine summe of money was giuen This maner of proceeding continued while the daies of the Emperour Constantine the 3 who beeing mooued by the good and holie life of Pope Benedict 2. which was in the yeare 686. he sent vnto him a constitution by which it was ordained decreed that whosoeuer afterwards shold be chosen by the cleargie and people of Rome he was incontinently to bee reputed for the true Vicar of Iesus Christ without attending therein the authoritie of the Emperour of Constantinople or of the Exacque of Italie resident in Ravenna Afterwards in the yeare 773. Pope Hadrian the first in the counsell of Lateran wherin there was 153. Bishops assembled in the Church of Saint Sauiour in Rome with their aduise and consent gaue the power of electing and choosing pope to Charlemaine King of France who was afterwards made Emperour for driuing

the Lombards out of Italie But this continued no long time because after that the Emperour Loys the debonaire Sonne to Charlemaine released this royall prerogatiue in the dayes of pope Paschall the first and remysed vnto the Cleargie and people of Rome the full and free power of creating and electing of Popes which continued and tooke place for a long time after But pope Leo S. hauing bin maintained in the seate with armes by the Emperour Otho the 1. in recompence of his benefit and being offended with the in constancie mutability of the people he transferred all the authoritie of creating and making popes vnto the person of the Emperour Otho the 1. about the yeare 963. Othos successors vsed this authoritie and priuiledge til the time of the Emperour Henry the 4. vnder whom pope Gregory the 7. called before Hildebrand who was chosen in the yeare 1073. surrendred the same prerogatiue again vnto the clergie and people of Rome and presently after pope Paschall 2. hauing remised it into the handes of the Emperour Henry 5. hee incontinently after reuoked the same againe In the yeare 1509. Pope Nicholas 2. in the counsell of Latran 4. made a Decree touching the election of Popes importing thus much that first the Cardinall Bishops would treate amongst themselues of the election conferring afterwardes with the other Cardinalles about the same and so the election by them made to be approoued and consented vnto by all the people and cleargie of Rome vsing these words Vt Cardinalis Episcopi diligentissime simul de electione tractantes mox Christi clericos Cardinales adhibeant sicque reliquus clerus populus ad consensum nouae electionis accedat And yet for all this the Emperors would not afterwards giue vp this their right and pretention as we haue before declared And then by little and little this prerogatiue came to the hands of so many Cardinalles onelie as well those that were Bishops as others that were Priests and Deacons At last Gregorie 1â— in the Counsell of Lyons in the yeare 1274. instituted the manner of the Popes election by the Cardinalles which were all to bee shutte and enclosed in one place called the Conclaue in the towne where the precedeÌ„t pope should depar so that no body might goe in nor come out or conferre by letters messengers or otherwise with the same Cardinalles while they had created a Pope to whome they brought and deliuered their ordinarie refection at a window And if in the space of three dayes sithence their entrance they had not agreed vppon an election it is said that for fiue daies after they were to haue but onely one dishe at dinner or supper And after this if they yet continued longer without making an election they were to haue nothing giuen them but bread wine and water while they had chosen a Pope After the decease of the pope they were to deferre their session for 10. dayes to expect and attend for the absent Cardinalles before they entred into the Conclaue Although notwithstanding entrance was not forbidden theÌ„ so they came afterward the matter being yet entire and not treated of The same was confirmed by Pope Clement the 5 who by his constitution forbad that such a forme should not be corrected changed nor altered by the Cardinalls in Sede Vacante and that nothing might be added or taken from it in any sort whatsoeuer But by a Bull of Pope Clement the 6. there was some moderation as wel for the forme of the Conclaue wherin they were permitted to make separations to furnish celles for eache Cardinall with tapistries onely as for the meate they were to haue brought them It remaineth therfore that wee a little more particularlie touche the forme and order which is vsed at this day in such an election and all that which palseth and is performed in the Conclaue CHAP. II. Of the forme and order which they vse and proceede in at this present to the election of a Pope PResently after the Pope is departed yea and euen when they see or that they haue aduertisement from the Physitions that hee is at the last cast the Cardinalls which are then in Rome assemble together in the priuy Consistory to consult for the gouernment of the towne and to prouide for the affaires of the vacancie then the seate being vacant they are apparelled in Coquests Rochettes Mozzettes without Copes in signe of Iurisdiction the people of the towne all in armes guarde at the gates of the Cittie the Cardinalls Pallaces and in other quarters The day after the Cardinalles reassemble together in the same place for the like effect and to determine of such affaires as then occurre as also to prouide for the preparation adopting of that which is necessarie for the holding of Conclaue Afterwards they carrie the corps of the deceased Pope ordinarilie into S. Peters Church except the departed pope made choice of his sepultur in some other place Therto all the Cardinalles presentially assist which are at the assemblie the dead body is reuested with Pontifical ornaments laid vpon a bedstead in the Church or some chapell of the same where the people come kisse his feete In the daies following the Cardinalls solemnize the Popes obsequies and there is a convention in the vestrie of Saint Peters wherin the Princes Embassadors do vse to enter making their remonstrations motions touching the Election to be performed During the vacancie the great Chamberlain gouerns Rome But so ther is no expedition nor dispatch of any thing admitted in the Apostolicall Chancerie while there be a new Pope And in briefe as soone as the Pope hath yeelded vp his breath the Vice-chaÌ„celer taketh the Bulls or Seales causeth theÌ„ publiquely to be broken rased out that side to be taken away of them wheron the deceased Popes name was written so that they cannot be sealed withall And the other side wheron are grauen the heads of Saint Peter and Paule they wrap within a linnen cloth which he layeth vp in some casket with his seale coÌ„mitteth them into the hands of the Chamberlaine Whose office together with that of the Penitentiaries continueth during the vacancy And if they should chance to die the Cardinalles might discharge the same for the time onely of such a Vacancie Nine dayes after the Popes death they celebrate the Masse of the Holy Ghost and beeing finished with singing the Hymne Veni sancte Spiritus they enter into the Conclaue The Conclaue at Rome is in a place ioyning to Saint Peters Churche within the Popes Pallace in Sixtus his Chapell as bigge as a great Church where is portraied the last Iudgement and it was the excellent worke-manship of Michael Angelo which chapell they set forth after the manner of a Domitorie in Convents but that there are many great allies and some more lesse narrower and with the order of celles or little cabinets wherin the Cardinalls lie To the which Conclaue the chappell

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