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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00402	Wonderfull newes of the death of Paule the. iii. last byshop of Rome [and] of diuerse thynges that after his death haue happened, wherein is trulye set ... the abominable actes of his most mischeuous life. Written in Latin by. P. Esquillus, and Englyshed by W. B. Londoner.; Epistola de morte	Flacius Illyricus, Matthias, 1520-1575.; Vergerio, Pietro Paolo, 1498-1565, attrib. name. aut; Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563?	1552 (1552)	STC 10532; ESTC S112433	12,155	42

counsell In whiche as it appered by certaine letters whiche were there bothe red and writtē at the instaunce of a fewe was deuised howe the truth myght be thrust downe and the Emperoure deceyued There myght ye haue seen some hyssed out of counsayle because they were so boldc but slenderly to defende the truth and hold against theyr peruerse counsayles Ther saw I a certayn wellearned Phisicion but a better astrologien F. C. Corrupted with money to thentente he should testifie with his mouth wrytyng that the ayer there was vnwholsome for the fathers that to deceyue the Emperoure they myght transfer the counsayle to some other place where they might either bryng more certayne more free suggestions for the Popes tyrannye or els at the least wyse delaye the counsayle Alexander T. no cōmon phisiciō gaynsayed this corrupted Phisicion and that learnedly prouyng the ayre and all other thinges there to bee very holesome and that there was nothing in the nature disposicion of the place whiche should seme to be able to fray them from kepyng theyr counsaile there Yet notwithstandyng the gaynsaying of the Phisicion and the vehement repugnyng of the Emperour it was brought to passe with corrupt and stynkyng suffrages that the greatest parte of the blessed fathers wente theyr way Neyther dyd this Arche lacke his tytle For in it were these woordes To Paule the thyrde chiefe Byshop the troubler of counsayles and common peace thirtie Popes haue set vp this About the myddle of Plutoniū was a piller of sounde Adamante at whiche I could not maruayle ynough whan I sawe the warres and bluddye lightes agaynst the sainctes so shyne they seemed to be in doing rather than shewed by Imagerye but after a newe vnwunted kynde of fyghtyng For there were to be sene two fortes of battayle Fyrst there were flockes of moste meke chepe clothed in white garmentes Upō the shepes heades were goldē crownes glistering with a wonderfull shyne These flockes hadde to they re guyde a lambe whiche had seuen hornes and as many iyes On the other parte were raueninge wolues wolues truly but not all in one sorte of apparell For some had on theyr heades redde cappes some two topped myters some Cooles and that diuerse other some after another sorte But one amongest them was aboue the rest whiche bare on his heade a triple crowne which differed nothing at all from the myter and kyngdome of the hye Bishop All ware one kynde of garmente some of purple some violet some blacke some graye some white This was the kynde of theyr battayle The wolues in diuers places brake in vpon the flocke and euerye one toke a chepe tare hym deuoured him The fearfull shepe dyd noughte saue sometyme holde themselues together and sometyme flye awaye and lyftinge vp theyr heades into heauen bleat miserably and loke vpon the lambe The lābe alone with a speare like a crosse fought and sometimes so draue away and chased the wolues that he constrayned thē to fall headlyng into a certayne bottom les pit The other battayle was after this sorte Not far from hence were legions and crues of armed men lyke to al these which as I sayed before came forth to mete Peter Aloysius saue that those semed to haue Paule the thyrd to theyr chiefe Captayne and Emperour Of these some catyed drawē sweardes some kyndeled fyerbrandes and some cuppes myngled with deadly poyson They whiche fought with sweardes common weapons hadde to theyr Captayne a certayne Cardynal the byshops Legate a yong man desirous of vayne glorye vpon whose garmente these woordes were wrytten I wyl go and make such a slaughter that my horse shall swym me in the blood of Lutherians All these had in theyr standard the world betwene two kayes Agaynst these with greate courage of mynde and spyryte stroue men wythout any maner of harnesse or weapon saue that a good parte of them helde vp against theyr strokes with one hand a penne and in the other a booke And parte after the maner of peticioners lyfted vp pure handes to a certayne mountayne For these armies were scattered about a certayne mountayne vpō the top wherof I sawe a crosse fastned and lyfted vp so high that it femed to touche heauen with the toppe and vpon it was Christe Iesus that sonne of god crucified And there was a tytle fastned to the head of the Crosse after this tenoure This is the victory that ouercummeth the Worlde our fayth This was a cruell battayle and a newe kynde of ouercommyng For here myght we see some to bee bounde of theyr enemyes and shut vp in darke prisons some to bee slayne with the swearde some dispatched with poyson some in the myddest of the syer syngyng the prayses of GOD and Christe some bounde and throwen into the water some banished and bounde to the Galeyes some to exile At whiche thynges theyr enemies were so astonyshed and so disdaynfull that they bote theyr toungues with theyr teeth and plucked awaye the heares of theyr beardes These thynges and manye other were in that greate pyller which I know not how for to vtter For there I knewe manye of the Popes Knyghtes and ministers of his crueltie some dead and some yet alyue whom yf I should name that whole worlde would wondre at it Notwithstanding some of thē are so wel knowē by their wicked mischeuus dedes that it nedeth not to name them The other I wyll passe with silence least it shoulde appere that I name thē rather for the hatred I beare them that for the loue of the christen cōmon weale But I had almoste ouerskipt the wrytyng of this piller whiche aboute the shrine was this To Paule the thyrd the chiefe Bysshop for his singuler hatred of Christ and christians and for that whiche he hath luckelye doen agaynst them whiche prisons galeyes ryuers ashes exiles murthers and slaughters in Italy Fraunce Spayne Englande and in vnconquered Germanie do witnes insomuche that he hath wurthely deserued the name of Antechrist Emperours Kynges and other Princes Prelates Cardinals Bysshops and all other Fautours of the Sea of Rome and al the annoynted that are here haue consecrate this renoumed wonderfull and euerlastyng tytle on harde Adamant stone While I was greatiye inatuayling and musynge vpon those thynges whiche I had reade Genius counsayled me to loke vpon that parte of the fyeld whereas Pluto his palace was And beholde I sawe innumerable ministers of which some caried tables tresties some table clothes napkins some dishes and cuppes and some dressyng knyues and by and by the tables were set and prepared throughoute the whole fielde theyr seates made ready but one was higher thē al the rest more full of worke and better decked whiche in stede of a base grounsell a she wolfe and a Dragon stayed vp Therin was set the whore Our holynes holdyng in bothe her handes the golden cup which we spake of before Into the which cup she shead fyrst the filth of her