Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	great_a	know_v	read_v	2,643	5	5.6369	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00565	Historia de donne famose. Or The Romaine iubile which happened in the yeare 855. Disputed lately, that there vvas a woman pope named Ione the eight, against all the Iesuites, by a Germaine, but especially against Rob. Bellarmine father of all controuersies, his treatise De Romano pontifico. lib. 3. cap. 24. Newly translated into English	German.; T. B., fl. 1599.; Witekind, Hermann, d. 1603, attributed name.	1599 (1599)	STC 1070; ESTC S104453	30,341	46

in grosse of regaining and reuenging from all vice and fault the Maiestie Pontific●ll at this day is deliuered will perswade vs with their loquence that this is a fiction and that no such thing could be Albeit vpon the matter there i● no great moment in it whether it bee a fable or a veriety of this Pontificall and Great-belly● yet to expresse in this pageant their harlots foreheads and the whoores faces of these Parasites and how much in other great matters they are to be beleeued and trusted vnto and that men may be warned and armed the more from their frawde I will with Gods helpe truely repeate the breuitie of Historio-Graphers as many certaine as haue beene seene of me their testimonies the matter in fact not a fiction and affirmed and confirmed by them which being red let any stoute and iust arbitrator censure whether more faith and credite is not to bee ascribed vnto the tradition old and concenting together of so manie excellent men in pietie and integritie or rather vnto the deniall new and neuer heard of before of a fewe fresh Hipocrites and Gnathos denying what they lust and affirming what they lust in fauour of their owne Maister Of al that truly are read of the men of our time as I suppose the most ancient writer of this Feminine Lord is olde Raphe Flaniencis a benedictine Monke alleadged in the centuries of the Ecclesiasticall Historie and whom Trithemius termeth a briefe Cronicle which the Authors of the Centuries name Polycronicon they say that he writ it referring his age vnto the yeare of our Lord 930. my selfe haue not yet obtained the reading of it but they scite the fifth booke of Radulphe Chapter the 32. To produce the first that I haue red I haue Marianus after his natiue country sirnamed Scotus whose honestie and veritie by this may be esteemed that the fellowship of the Benedictines both Cullin Fulda Mons receiued him and striuing with entertainement at his first comming into Germany where he dyed Anno Domini 1086. He in the third booke in the sixt age of his Cronicle in fewe words sheweth the matter to be so igno●inious and especially in that time not to be ripped vp nor heaped vpon yet of all faithfull Historiographers not to be pre●ermitted neyther in briefe he saith thus In the yeare of Lotharius the 14. the woman Ione succeeded L●● for two yeeres fiue monthes and foure daies This testimony of Martine the Esauites doe eleuate and make light of because in their manuscript bookes it is not extant But with what face can these falsaries require that in this matter or manner can trust be giuen to them who themselues in describing omit what they lust and thinges that other men write some they eate out and some they blot out The Coppy which the Printer of Basile did imitate came foorth of the Librarie of the Colledge of Saint Bartholmewes in the Citty of Frankeford by the commandement of the Bishop of Mens in which exemplare these words which they deny to be in their coppy were found cōtexed With like fidelity they denie this story also to be found in a certaine olde booke of Cronicles of Sigisbert a Monke which in all other his bookes are expressed and are to bee read in this manner Fame reporteth that this Iohn was a woman and knowen familiar to some one onely who it seemed imbraced her being great with childe she was deliuered being Pope Wherefore some doe not number her amongst the High priestes Therefore he maketh no number of that name Sigisbert liued in the time of Henry the fourth about the yeere of our Lord God 1110. I finde next vnto Sigisbert Martine sirnamed of Polone a Monke of the order of Preachers penitentiarie vnto Pope Nicholas the third after Archbishop of Consentin● at the yeare of our Lord 1320 whose Narration of Iohn the Pope is this Iohn English borne at Mens sate in the Seate two yeares and fiue months he dyed at Rome and all the offices were void thē for one month This Iohn as it is affirmed was a woman And when in her childhood of a certaine louer of hirs shee was brought to Athens in mans apparrell she did so profit in diuers Sciences that no one was found to bee comparable vnto her in so much that afterwardes shee reading at Roome openly obtayned great Masters to be her schollers And then in the Citty she being of great fame by her conuersation and science by counsell of them all she was chosen to be Pope But in the Papall seate by her familiar friend shee became pregnant with childe yet vnskilfull of the time that women recon for their birth-right when shee was tending her iourney from Saint Peters vnto Lateran● the Popes Pallace being inuironed betwixt the Colossis and Saint Clements Church she fell in labour and was deliuered and afterward when she was dead she was buried there as it is said in the Colossis Now because that my Lord the Pope dooth alwaies shunne that place that way it is beleeued on all sides that he doth it for detestation and hate of that fact Neyther is it put into the Catelogue of the holy high Priestes as well for the sex of her womanhood as for the deformity of so fowle a deede These same wordes wholy in a manner are to be red in the booke of Richard the Monke of Cluniacens the tytle whereof is The number of the Romane high-priestes which is kept in the Librarie Which words a man very honest certainely tolde vnto vs that he saw them at that place written being there about sixteene yeere agoe Richard was before Martine and was his antecessor a hundred and fifty yeares vpon Trithemius report This same expresse and so cleare a narration of Martine the Popes owne penitenciary which office is not a little credite among these vaine Paper-puffed men in which he behaued himselfe so that for his reward he was indued with an Archbishopricke by the which no body could be more certaine of the Actes and Histories of the high Priestes then he might And yet these Esauites chiefly Bellarmine do enuic still-that before Martine Polone not ●ne betraied this to the memory But haue you not marked how both Sigebert Mariane Radulphe and Richard were all before him yea and many more out of whome he but gathered these and other things too as hee himselfe in the Proaeme beginning his Chronicle doth well signifie And besides that Mariane in the verie entry of his worke doth rehearse out of whose monuments hee heaped vp this story who were eyther all of them interred then or else done to dust some where or being dead they were dismembred and lay hid not any aliue But if it were true that Martine was the first that euer commaunded this to writing shall we therefore thinke it to be a fable Many thinges certes in stories both diuine and prophane we read of the which their owne Authors hauing heard it of olde men

their censure of the whole world most perfidously wickedly heinoussie and all vngodly some of these bookes they may me like a headl●sse trunke or stocke some they depraue some they increase some they decrease euen agreeable for their owne purpose as they please And these by their owne types and formes their owne Printers by the mandate of their Prince of the Apostles and by the vnder commaundement of other Princes footmen to the Prince of Rome Pages to the pontificals they empresse and set them foorth intending guile foule fraude and sacriledge to all the Christians both present and in future time hereafter and that onely to recouer and vpholde the stature of the Idoll and of their Lorde God the Popes authoritie power and his grace Which vsurpation of theirs both by the Apostles owne writings which I feare me in time they will also s●t vpon to corrupt too and by the Fathers auncient monuments are oppugned are slided from their first creation in as much that they may see themselues ouerthrowne both horse and foote O worthilie worthy that for this so great wretchednesse wickednesse and sacriledge of vs Christian people to be stoned to death but more in a more feeling fashion is the maister of them Anresignanus worthy to be dragged a long Rome on the Gemontan sled And thus by reason of these capitall fals●ries the Esauites both Bishops Abbots yea and the Princes of our prouince● pluck downe to ruine noble and riche houses vnbuilde them to feede these with the fattest and fa●rest Prebends and thus they nourish that serpent Coluber in their owne bosomes Therefore to conclude them behold behold I beseeche you and lend an eare too with what studie and industrie Parasites execute their office affirming by demonstration the best argument that is on euery side by all meanes and wayes their absolute and perfect sanctimony and holinesse the inuiolable maiestie of their Lorde insulting and singing according to the Prouerbe Canentes vernaculum that Chansowne Chansowne of whom they are fed And they dare too denie a trueth confidently impudently being compelled therevnto as it were infolded in grauell with the arguments of the storie the veritie wherof almost for the space of this eight hundred yeares euen in the Pontificall kingdome in Rome was neuer doubt made or disputation of controuersie of any man offered before but that all the libraries with one concent with one voice speaking affirmed the faith of that historie Now at last and at least forsooth it is called in question brought vnder doubt by adulatory Parasites sithe they perceiue the person and the adored maiestie to be despect and despised and amongst many other matters their own curtaine and vilde theater set open the storie to be penned and plaied stirred vp and preferred more liberall of late then euer before And marke the storie followeth About the yeare of our Sauiour Christ 855. Lotharius being Emperour the sonne of Lewes called Pius it happened to the holy sacred and sacred holy Catholique and Apostolique See of Rome to the Columnes pillers standerd bearers to the hinges Cardinals if so be there were any hinges to their doores or cardinals at that time that their holy spirit who in all their counsels is present euer absent neuer so as to erre to be deceiued to slide in any matter they say of themselues they cannot in some enormitie their spright serued them deceiuing thēselues whether of ignorance or of purpose or busied about other matters of more import he suffered them in their creation and consecration of a new high Priest inwardly outwardlye and most ridiculously to erre and to be shamefully deceiued in choosing without any discretion of sex a female Pope insteed of a male For Leo the fourth being deceased an Aedile and quaestor very industrious the Consultation for a successor being propounded there was conuersing at Rome one as it appeared not one but two a certaine yong man a Germaine borne at Mens named Iohn English in Scholes in some places and withall in Greece brought vp in erudicion He or she in wit doctrine eloquence manners habite and comlinesse of body to be admired at at a worde such an one that the Primates and chiefe men there in Rome were beneuolent auditors and did heare her in certaine Scholes where she red there and by their endeuours and sentence she was preferred to the sacred Senate designed and made a woman high Priest in the steed of a man so many prudent perspicuous sages so many eyes and noses being by yea without any admonishing of their holy spirit so as they know not the womans sex from the mans no not by a beard which though it had beene rased after their owne fashion yet me thinkes the stubbes should appeare no not by voyce and other notes and tokens hidden and vnknowne At last the fallacie was bewrayed in this plaine euent In that her delicacie of licence to do what she list lasciuious nature admitted into her embracing eyther a Cardinall or some meaner man more familiarly by whom she was begotten with childe When her time was almost expired her next neighbour the birth day was at her hand so imprudently as a Heighfer not expert in her first calfe on the day of their litamie and Procession as they call it she walked foorth falling down in the very publique walke amongst the whole rou● beli●e expressing her estate they left her for●orne there with dolor and paine she brought foorth her first begotten and so in the child-birthe they both perished This story the Esauites contend against would haue it to be a fablement and so many of integrity graue writers in whose consenets and momoments it is expressly red they reprooue so vnreuerently so arrogantly both of vanitie and falshood and that not for t●nthes sake and affirmation thereof so much as for that wheresoeuer any thing maketh against them they doe adultera●e or suppresse it as I shewed before But this is because they would wash away the blot and guilde their worthlesse copper Pope from this crime in this our latter age reiect and throwen into despect and ignominie for their Romane Hierarchie the foundation wherof in perpetuitie euen from this time vnto the succession of Don Petre for Peter himselfe was neuer at Roome they would scite and deriue it which rope of sande made like a chayne broken by reason of this woe to man dolefully they brooke it being desirous to haue it to remaine in integritie linked with their petty degree In former times bookes of such Histories were red of fewe and they that might read them they in honour and grace of the Triple Crowne of the Viccar of God vpon the earth did dissemble them and retaine them in silence as a thing too shamefull not onely euill but absurde and to his estimation and glory a great detriment now the Esauites vnto whom as vnto triers or olde souldiers of the rereward the sum