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Wonderful prodigies of judgment and mercy discovered in above three hundred memorable histories ... / impartially collected from antient and modern authors of undoubted authority and credit, and imbellished with divers curious pictures of several remarkable passages therein by R.B., author of the History of the wars of England, and the Remarks of London &c.
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R. B., 1632?-1725?
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that he entred like a Fox reigned like a Lyon and dyed like a Dog he sent an Ambassage to Philip the fair King of France to command him to take upon him an expedition against the Saracens in the Holy Land upon pain of forfeiting his Kingdom into his hands and having his Sword by his side he had the Impudence to say That he alone and none else was Emperour and Lord of all the world and to make this good he bestowed the Empire of Germany and the Crown of France upon Duke Albert though none of his to give and not content herewith he was so insolent as to charge Philip the Fair to acknowledge him to be his Subject in all Causes as well Temporal as Spiritual requiring him likewise to levy a Subsidy upon the Clergy for his Holinesses use and denying his Authority in bestowing Church livings which were vacant as being a Prerogative challenged by the Holy See and in the conclusion of this Bull or Decree were these words Aliud credentes fatuos reputamus We count him a fool who is of another mind whereunto the King returned this Answer Philippus Dei Gratia c. Philip by the Grace of God King of France to Boniface calling himself Pope little or no health be it known to the exceeding great Foolishness that we in Temporal Affairs are subject to none and that the bestowing of Benefices belongs to us as our Royal Right and â—f there be any that think otherwise we judge them to be erroneous and doting Fools an answer will beseeming a Prince who in pursuance thereof immediately assembled a National Council of all the Barons and Prelates within his Dominions at Paris wherein Pope Boniface was Condemned as an Heretick a Simonist a Manslayer and it was generally concluded That the King should shew no obedience to him nor take the least notice of whatever he should impose for the future whereupon the King to pull down his Pride and Arrogance dispatched two hundred Soldiers privately into the Kingdom of Naples whither the Pope was fled for fear of divers Gentlemen who were resolved to be revenged on him for causing their Houses and Castles to be pluckt down who by a stratagem surprised him and carried him to Rome where he dyed miserably some Authors affirming that the Extremity of his Torment brought him into such a terrible Frenzy that he gnawed off his own hands for pain and that at the hour of his death there were horrible Thunders Lightnings and Tempests about the place where he died Beards Theatre VIII Adrian the Fourth was an English-man whose name was Nicholas Brakespear before he was Pope He would not suffer the Consuls of Rome to have any power and condemned Arnold of Brixia for an Heretick in upholding their Rights He quarrelled with the Emperour Frederick for not holding Hostler like his Stirrup and afterward excommunicated him for claiming his Rights and writing his name before the Popes He conspired with his Cardinals to ruine the Emperour and had sent a counterfeit Villain to stab him and an Arabian to poison him but while this proud Prelate designed the murdering of others he lost his own Life by a very despicable and inconsiderable creature for he was choakt with a Fly which got into his Throat in drinking a glass of Wine which verified what he was often wont to repeat That there is no kind of life upon Earth more wretched than to be a Pope Symson Hist church Emp Germany 3 days at the Popes Gate pa. 83. An Oivl in the Popes Council pa. 39 Scimus Alexandrum per secula commemorandum As long as there is Goose or Gander We must remember Alexander This Pope plagued the World about one and twenty years and was then suddenly hurried out of it in the midst of his wretched and ambitious Contrivances Symson Hist. Church X. Pope John the Twenty Third called a Council at Rome against the Protestants in Bohemia when the Council was set the Mass of the Holy Ghost sung and the Pope placed in his Chair there came flying in among them an ugly Owl with an ill-favoured hooting and set her self upon a cross Beam just over against the Pope casting her staring Eyes upon him whereupon the whole company began to marvel and whispering each to other said Behold the Spirit is come in the likeness of an Owl The Pope himself blushed at the matter and began to sweat fret and fume and being in great distraction as looking upon it to be ominous he dissolved the Council for that time yet afterward calling another Session when they were met in came the Owl as before still looking stedfastly upon the Pope whereupon he was more ashamed saying That he could no longer abide the sight of her and commanded her to be driven away but with all the shouts and hollowings they could make she would not be forced from her place till with Clubs and Sticks thrown at her she fell down dead among them all After this a Council was by his Consent Assembled at Constance 1414. in which this Pope for divers Intolerable Villanies was deposed and afterward died miserably Acts and Monum XI Pope Julius the Second was more addicted to War than Writing or Teaching his Flock He excommunicated Lewis the French King but he did not value it in the least for he Coined Money with this Inscription Perdam Babylonem I will destroy Babylon He is said to have thrown St. Peter's Keys into the River Tyber of whom this Epigram was written Cum contra Gallos Bellum Papa Julius esset Gesturus sicut fama vetusta docet c. When Julius Pope against the French Determined to make War As fame reports he gathered up Great Troops of Men from far And to the Bridge of Tyber then Marching as he were * or mad wood His Holy Keys he took and cast Them down into the Flood And afterward into his hand He took his naked Sword And shaking it broke forth into This fierce and warlike word This Sword of Paul quoth he shall now Defend us from our Foe Since that this Key of Peter doth Nothing avail thereto This Pope breaking his Oath in not celebrating a Council the Cardinals Assemble a Council at Pisa to depose him but he easily avoided that by a Counter Council at Lateran He dispensed with our King Henry the Eighth to Marry his Brother Arthur's Wife He horribly abused two Ingenious Youths who were sent by the Queen of France to be bred in Italy of which one wrote To Rome a German came of fair aspect But he return'd a Woman in effect And this was written of the Pope himself Genoa cui Patrem genetricem Graecia c. He that from Greece and Genua had his blood Aud on the waves his Birth can be prove good The Genoese Cheats the Greeks men Lyars call The Sea Perfidious Julius hath these all He Sainted one Mother Francis a Roman Matron for preserving her Chastity by melted Lard c. In his
in that Art preferred him to be a Servant to a Chirurgeon who after a while sent him to the East-Indies there by his diligence and industry he got money with which he returned home and longing to see his native Country Cornwall he sailed in a small Ship from London Westward but ere he attained to his Port he was cast away upon that Coast where once more his excellent skill in Swimming brought him safe to Shoar But having been fifteen years absent he understood his Father was much decayed in his Estate and had tetired himself to a place not far off being indeed in debt and danger His Sister he finds married to a Mercer to whom he at first appears as a poor stranger but after a while privately reveals himself to her shewing her what Gold and Jewels he had concealed in a Bow-case about him and they concluded that the next day he should appear to his Parents yet to keep himself unknown to them till his Sister and her Husband should come thither to him to make their common Joy compleat accordingly he goes alone to his Fathers house where his humble behaviour suitable to his poor cloths melted the old couple into so much compassion as to give him shelter from the cold weather under their outward roof and by degrees his Relations of his Travels and sufferings told with so much passion to the Aged People made him stay so long by the Kitchen fire that the Husband bid them Good Night and went to Bed and soon after his true Stories moving compassion in the Woman she wept and so did he But taking pity on her tears he comforted her with a piece of Gold which gave her assurance that he deserved a Lodging to which she brought him and being in Bed he shewed her his wealth which was girded about him which he told her was sufficient to relieve her Husbands wants and to spare for himself and so being weary sell asleep The Old Woman being tempted with the golden bait which she had received and greedily thirsting after the enjoyment of the rest went to her Hushand and awaking him told him this news and what further she intended to do and though with horrid apprehensions he often refused yet her puling Elequence Eves Enchantments moved him at last to consent to be Master of all that wealth by murdering the owner thereof which accordingly they effected afterward covered the Corps with cloths till they had opportunity to convey it away The early morning hastens the Sister to her Fathers house where with signs of great Joy she enquires for a Sailor that should lodge there the last night The Old People at first denied that they had seen any such till she told them that he was her Brother her lost Brother whom she certainly knew to be so by a scar upon his Arm cut with a Sword in his youth and that they had resolved to meet there the next morning and be merry The Father hearing this hastily runs up into the Room and finding the mark aforesaid with the horrid regret of this monstrous Murther of his own Son cuts his throat with the same knife wherewith he had committed that execrable deed A while after the Mother going up to consult with her Husband what to do and being confounded to see him weltring in his own blood she takes the same knife and therewith rips up her own belly so that the guts tumbled out The Daughter wondring at their delay in coming down goes up to them and found too soon this bloody Tragedy the Mother having time only to relate the forementioned particulars gave up the Ghost The Daughter was struck with such a sudden horrour and amazement at this deluge of destruction that she prefently sunk down and died The truth of these things was frequently known and the fatal end of that Family quickly flew to the Court of K. James clad with these circumstances but the Printed Relation conceals their names out of respect to some Neighbour of repute of kin to the Family Sandersons Hist K. James A bloudy Villain murders 3 Children pa. 160 A Virgin destroyed by venemous Serpents pa. 156 XXX In the time of Queen Elizabeth of Blessed Memory there dwelt an old man and woman in Honeyâ—ne near Cheapside the least of them 70 years of Age who lived privately without any Servants and having early means coming in were thought by the Neighbours â—o be rich their house being likewise very neat and well â—urnished for People of their condition which some â—illains having notice of they procured a false Key to â—heir House and entring at midnight murthered the two â—ld People asleep in their Beds and then broke open â—heir Chests and carryed away what they were able and â—fterwards shut the doors upon the dead bodies the â—ext day neither of them being seen by their Neighâ—ours as they daily were they began to suspect a little â—ut the second day when they found the door to conâ—nue shut neither heard any noise in the house they â—eat at the door and receiving no answer sent for an Officer who broke open the door and found in the first Room all things out of order and going up stairs the Trunks and Chests were broke open but looking toward the Bed they discovered the Man and his Wife miserably murdered upon which great search was made and many taken upon suspition but nothing could be proved against them at length a poor Vagabond wretch was seized on who being examined could give no good account of himself and being observed to haunt thereabout two or three days before he was upon those presumptions committed to Newgate and the next Sessions arraigned for want of making a discreet defence was condemned and hanged for this supposed murther but the Malefactor indeed after that horrid Fact escaped in the Low-Countries where he set up a Trade and got a great deal of mony so that he was very considerable in the place where he lived but after about twelve years continuance there being grown out of knowledge in his own Country he could not rest nor be quiet but he must needs visit England and came hither for no other business but to see London and buy a piece of plate in Cheapside to carry over with him to a Goldsmith he comes and in a shop near the Standard cheapens a Bowl and whilst he was bargaining it happened that a Gentleman was arrested just over against Bow-Church who drawing his Sword ran up Cheapside the Serjeants and People crying Stop him stop him all looking that way the murderer not knowing the cause of the tumult thought they looked at him and that he was discovered and so begins to run away the People seeing him run they ran after him and stopt him asking the cause of his flight who in great affright and terrour of conscience said He was the Man they asked him what man He answered The same Man that committed such a bloody murder so many years since