the ende I would not be a parricide to gaine the soueraigntie of the whole worlde After he willeth them to put swords in sheaths and let vs fight with Counsell saith hee and not with armour Thus Albert how nature fought a battaile in the very bowels of the sonne when hee was readie to ioyne battaile with his father Though nature thus began to bleede in him when the battaile beganne to ioyne against his father yet hee leaueth not persecuting of him with parricidiall warre and traiterous attempts so long as life lasted in him hee sacked his fathers treasures hee threwe his faithfull Subiects out of their liuings he betrayed him in his nearest frends by whose fidelitie and force hee was most supported Aâ—h. Kranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 18. At Spires hee ransacked his fathers treasures at Ratispon at Herbipolis hee draue out the faithfull Bishops to his father and set others of his own crue conspirators in their place And when his father beganne to vade hee brought Ruckard the ranck Rebell of Mens home to his Sea againe Otto Frisin Episc li. 7. cap. 8. So the faithfull friendes of the father went to wracke as if the course of nature beeing chaunged in the rebellion of the sonne agaynst the father the ciuil gouernmeÌ„t followed the same course also Thus howe hee betrayed him in his treasures and in his faithfull friends Now how he betrayed him euen in his neerest friendes by whose force chieflie he was garded and furnished as Henrie Duke of Beme Henry Duke of Beme Leopold Marques of Austria Otto Frisin Episc lib. 7. cap. 9. and Leopold Marques of Ostrige whose sister Duke Henrie had wedded And he lured Marques Leopold to his side by promising him the marriage of his sister Agnes the widdowe of Frederick Duke of Sueuia So he betrayed his father in his neerest and dearest friends of greatest account Agnes Dutches of Sueuia and he made his sister and daughter to Henrie the fourth the instrumeÌ„t of his practise to betray the father Thus of his parricidiall warre and continuall persecuting of his father and the betraying of him in his treasures in his faithfull friendes and principall peeres by whome hee was supported The 3. The 3. chiefe matter in the discourse of this storie is of the taking and deposing of the father Let vs heare how by treason of the sonne the father was taken as hee was comming to the Councell and diet of Princes at Mens The taking and deposing of Hen. the 4. there to haue audience of his cause Thus the father himselfe telleth it in his letters from Ledes directed to the states of the Empire Ab. Vrsper in chro in an 1106. as the Abbat of Vrsperg laieth there downe Because saith the Emperor in his letters at the counsell and request of our sonne vppon faith and securitie both of my life and honour first receiued from him I addressed my selfe hauing a desire therto to come to Mens into the presence of the Roman Legates and Princes there Henry the 4. letter to the states and further to doe as they shoulde take order there so well concerning the state of the Church and honour of the Realme as for our soules health also And thus comming with this obedience hee sticked not contrarie to his faith and safe-conduit to take vs and euen to the brinke of death in maner to bring vs And we dare not so to put our selues into his handes to bee euill intreated by iniuries and reproch of him at his pleasure as heeretofore we haue been Thus farre out of the letter of Henrie the fourth written to the states of the Empire how hee was entrapped by treason of his sonne as hee was comming to the Councell of Mens to haue audience and order for his cause The Abbat of Vrsperg telleth it more smothlie in the behalfe of the son Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. â—n anno 1106. as if the Princes fearing the Emperors comming into opeÌ„ presence least the people should fall to him and make tumult for him by generall consent and councel perswaded him to resigne send to his sonne the imperial robes and ornamentes the Crosse the Speare the scepter the globe and crowne Bishop Otto who was of the Emperiall house himselfe Otto Frisin Episc lib. 7. cap. 11. and neere about those times more indifferentlie reporteth it How he was committed to a certain castle requiring audience the Princes met him at Inglehelme that there by their many wordes he was aduertised or saith he iuxta alios circumuentus ac coactus insigniareg ni resignare filio mittere Or saith Otto as others say circumuented and compelled to resigne the ornaments of estate and to send them to his sonne Thus Bishop Otto But the father in his letters telleth the flat truth howe hee was taken by treason of his sonne as hee was comming to the counsell of Mens to haue audience Thus wee may see when treason is a foote how one treason is on the backe of an other and there is no hoe of treasons Let vs heare now how likewise he was deposed The deposing of Henrie the 4. Alb. Kraâ—â— Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 1â— Albert telleth it thus out of the Chronicle of Germanie Some saie sayth he that being absent he was depriued deposed from all Emperiall honor and that mandate was giuen to the Bishops of Mens Colon and Wormes to go take froÌ„ him the Imperiall ensignes and ornaments perforce And when they came into the sight of the elder at Inglehelme where Charles the great had made a Palace the bishops shewed the maÌ„date of the Councell The order of the deposing of Hen. the 4 out of the Chronicle of Germanie requiring the voluntarie he would râ—signe the Imperial ensignes WheÌ„ he demaded the cause of so rigorous a senteÌ„ce pronoâ—ced of the CouÌ„cell against him wtout audience of his cause they did obiect against him as report goeth of theÌ„ Simonie in collating of bishopricks Abbaries TheÌ„ said the Emperor tell me Bishop of Mens you of Colon in the name of the eternall God what I haue taken of you Henry the 4. cleareth himselfe of Simonie in collating of Bishopricks They said nothing Then said the Emperor Glory be to God on high that euen in this matter wee haue been found faithfull surely your great dignities would haue yelded great gain to our cofers if we had been of the minde My Lord of Wormes doth knowe whether for gain or of our grace inducing it we haue admitted him Do not O fathers violate your faith allegeance suffer a while do not end our glory with confusioÌ„ We craue a generall court of audience If wee must yeelde with our owne hands we will yeelde the ensignes to our sonne Thus the Emperors wordes to the Bishops that came to depose him The executions dealings after Albert telleth in this sort And when the Bishops withstoode and offered violence
hand was wounded for his periurie A warning to all treason and rebellion against his Prince This may be example to all estates and persons to keepe their hartes and hands true to their Prince according to Godes ordinance least Gods vengeance fall on their harts heads as it did vpō Absolon the traytours hart and vppon their hand which they lifte vp against their Prince as it did vppon the right hand of Duke Rodolph rufully repenting for it Thus the example of Duke Rodolph by whom and how hee was set on of his rebellion and euill successe last of his rufull repentance Now will I discourse the storie of Henry the 5. Henry the 5. his rebellion against Henry the 4. his father The Order the treason and rebellion against Henry the 4. his owne father And for the more orderly treating of it I will referre my selfe to these cheefe pointes First of his cause and pretence and setting on to this treason and rebellion against his father Secondly of the vnnaturall and parricidial warre of the sonne against the father Thirdly of the taking and deposing of Henry the fourth Fourthly of his death and crueltie shewed on his corpes Fiftely of the mone and iudgment of their owne wryters of his case Laste of all of the iudgement of God on Henry the 5. in the ende Thus the order of my discourse◠this storie The first The cause pretence of rebellion of Henry the 5. against his father The first is his cause and pretence and setting on to that horrible treason and rebellion against his owne father The cause and pretence of his treason and rebellion against his owne father was Pope Gregorie the seuenth Pope Vrbane the second and Pope Paschal the second their curses on Henry the fourth his father and withall their priuing him of his Empire What the cause and his desert was that the Popes thus cursed and priued him let vs heare out of their owne writers The Abbat of Vrsperg very parciall on the Popes side against the Emperour noteth this to bee the cause Abbas Vrspergensis in chro in an 1075. Because two Popes of Rome solemnly cited the Emperor to make his apparance at Rome before them and he came not and for contempt against them and because he would not submitt himselfe to them he was of Gregorie the seuenth excomminged and cursed then of Vrbanus the second after of Paschal the second Another cause by Albertus reporte is aleaged out of the aunsweres of the Bishop of Mens and Wormes to the Emperour when they came to depose him for Simonie in collating Bishoprickes Abbacies which they cal the inuesting of Bishoppes and Abbates Alber. Krāz. Saxoniae lib. 5. cap. 20. by the hande of Princes into their royalties they hould of them Thus as in the right of their imperial prerogatiues The imperial right in inuesting of Bishoppes Abbates c Emperours haue held and continued from the time of Charles the Emperour surnamed the great and vnder 63. Bishoppes of Rome aboue 300. yeeres as Cuspinian noteth And after the thousand yeere that the Deuill was let lose out of the bottomlesse pitte Reue. 20. as out of the Reuelation I haue noted he raged in the Bishoppes of Rome against the principates of the earth making a quarrell for inuesting Bishoppes and Abbates by ley hand to the royalties of their dignities which they termed simenicall heresie I wil lay downe the wordes of Iohn Cuspinian concerning the cause Io. Cusp in vita Hen. 5. who was a man of great authoritie and a counceller to Maximilian the Emperour and though he were of their Religion yet without partialitie layeth down the cause Discordiae somes erat saith he talis The cause that bread the discord was such Now 380. yeeres and moe from Charles the great vnder 63. The case of inuestiture for which Popes cursed Emperors Bishoppes of Rome it was lawfull for the king to collate Episcopal dignities Abbatices by a ring a rod which now by authoritie custome most auncient preuileges by the space of so many yeeres was established But after Popes ordeyned that eccelsiasticall dignities or inuestiture might not of any ley parson bee collated and they were excomminged that were inuested in that sort Hitherto Iohn Cuspinian his wordes in the storie of Henry the fift Albertus Cranz Deane of Hanburg Alb. Cranz Sax. lib. 5. cap. 37. and a writer of their owne side doth thus speaking of Henry the 5. lay downe his iudgment of the case If saith he the Emperour meaning Henry the 5. who after was cursed of the Pope likewise for the same cause that he rebelled against his owne father did aske nothing but only the inuestiture of the lands called the graunt of the royalties the free elections to Churches and Abbaies reserued in the vacation he seemeth to demaund right Thus Albert his wordes touching the cause of inuestiture only he doth not like that the prouision for the person shall goe with it for the which he sayeth the controuersie was betweene the kingdome and the priesthood The Abbat of Vrsperg also speaking of the reconciling of Henry the fifth to Pope Calixtus sayth Ab. Vrsp in an 1122. hee did relinquishe the inuestiling of Churches which the German kinges so long hadde exercised and which hee purposed neuer during life to haue left least thereby he should preiudice the honour of his kingdome Thus Vrspergensis And yet otherwhere hee raueth against Henry the fourth Abbas Vrsperg in an 1106. for resisting the Popes censures and calleth him Nabuchodonezer and Iulian and sheweth his euill affected minde to him and his partialitie in wryting his storie which of Cuspinian also is noted Io. Cusp in vita Henr. 4. though in religion he be concurring with him Thus the bishoppes of Rome about that time that Sathan was loosed out of his chaine made schismes and hurleburlees in Christendome by encroching the auncient right of the mperiall prerogatiue touching the case of inuesting aforesaid which continued in the body of the Empire from Charles the great the first Emperour of the West after the diuision of the Empire and vnder 63 Bishoppes of Rome and more then 300. yeeres as Cuspinian noteth And because Henry the fourth would not yeeld vppe this imperiall prerogatiue and the auncient right of the Empire he was cursed of Gregorie the seuenth and other Popes and priued of his Empire though he continued Emperour about 50 yeeres lacking one as the Abbat confesseth And after that auncient right imperiall prerogatiue thus confirmed by authority Abbas Vrsperg in an 1102. custome and most ancient priuileges as Cuspinian witnesseth was called Simonicall heresie In the Lateran councell vnder Paschal the 2. Paschal 2. in Lateran councel who cursed Henry the fourth the father and Henry the fifth the sonne for the case of inuesting and for their mainteyning the Emperial prerogatiue therein and who himselfe had released the inuesting of
the fourth and faithfull Bishoppes to him out of their graues doth he not exalt himselfe by the oppression of the liuely word of God and of Princes and ciuill gouernments and such horrible and monstrous outrages in the world But Otto lamenteth the great outrages of the world in this exaltation of the Church of Rome Rome it selfe was not free from them as the mother of the mischeifes Otto Frising Episc lib. 6. cap. 35. For as Otto saith Roma obsessa capta vastata Papa super Papam c. Rome it selfe saith he was besieged taken ransacked Pope vpon Pope and king vpon king c. And because of the number of the great vnnaturall outrages of those times of Hen. the 4. and Henry the 5. of which he writeth he sayth these our times for of his own experience not onely of report he wryteth the storie of those times as very neere them himselfe for hee wrote the storie of Friderick the first vnder whom he liued and dyed in great honour which are thought to be the last times drawing former sinnes to their ende by the outrage of sinnes threatning the end of the world If this he spake of his time about 4. Outrages of sinnes a signa of the worlde drawing to an ende hundred yeeres agone and more what shall we say of the outrage of greeuous sinnes and practises and vnnatural and monstrous treasons in these latter times in which the Deuil finding his time to be but short as S. Iohn sayth in the Reuelations striueth to winne the mastery of himselfe Reue. 12. and to exceede himselfe in contriuing and practising bloody treasons and outrages against the Church of God and Princes set vp of God to bee nurses thereof But our comforte is 1. Cor. 1. faithfull is the Lord as Paul sayth by whom we are called into the fellowship of his son Iesus Christ And thus he comforteth the Thes faithfull is he which called you who will also doe it 1. Thes 5. And feeling experieÌ„ce of this comfort courage in himself to Tim. he saith 2. Tim. 4. the Lord wil deliuer me froÌ„ euery euil worke wil preserue me to his heauenly kingdom The hairs of our head are told our states euer are in his sight this prouideÌ„ce preueÌ„teth immineÌ„t dauÌ„gers Ther is a monument or memoriall booke written before him as Malachi calleth it Zepherziccharon Mala. 3. for them that feare the Lord and for theÌ„ that thinke on his name God geue vs grace with hearty prayer to sue to him that 〈◊〉 memoriall booke may continually bee before him for the long and prosperous preseruation of Elizabeth our Queene against al immineÌ„t daungers conspiracies and treasons at home and abroad whatsoeuer The 6. The Iudgement of God on Henry the 5. for his rebellion and treasons against his father The sixte of the chiefe pointes of my discorse of this storie is the iudgment of God on Henry the 5. for his treason and rebellion against his father Wherin I will note the iudgement of God on him touching the cause touching the cursing of Popes touching the treason and rebellion of his owne subiects touching his warres touching his treasure touching lacke of fruit and touching his own body First note touching the cause First touching the cause wherefore his father was cursed of the popes It was obiected to him of the Bishoppes that deposed him Albert reporting it out of the Chronicles of Germany for that hee would not yeeld to Popes the ancient right prerogatiue of the Empire from Charles the great 1. Emperor of the West continued by the space of 300. yeeres vnder 63 Bishops of Rome Cuspinian witnessing it Touching the inuesting of Churches which they called Symony or the Symonical heresie and excomminged those that receiued such inuesting of Princes by lay hand as they terme it Henry the 5. Henry the 5. his sonne after he came to the Empire maintayned the same right and auncient prerogatiue of the Empire against Popes and was purposed neuer during life to leaue it Ab. Vrsper in chro in an 1122. as Vrspergensis noteth least he should preiudice the honour of his kingdom While it was his fathers case he took part with Popes against him While his father opposed himselfe against Popes in the defence of the auncient right and prerogatiue of the Empire he by practise of Popes and vpon pretence of religion opposed himself against his father professed obedience to the Sea of Rome Ab. Vrsperg in chro in an 1105. condemned the heresie afore said betrayed his owne father tooke armes vpon him and rebelled in the Empire against him But after by persecution he had worn out his owne father by the practise and backing of Popes and their Clergie and that he was Emperor himselfe and it was now his owne case then was the case cleane altered It was heresie no more it was vnlawfull obedience to the Sea of Rome to yeeld vp the ancient right and priueleges of the Empire Then could he send aunsweare by his souldiers to Pope Paschal that such demaundes were not to be graunted because it was written â—â—ue to Caesar those thinges that are Caesars and to God those that are Gods Then the case remayning on his conscience was cleane chaÌ„ged Then he made not conscience to lay violent hands vpon Pope Paschal by his souldiers in the Church and to carry him prisoner into his campe there to put him in sure gard â—il by solemne instrument he had yeelded vp the claime Alb. Kranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 33. as Albert wryteth it But while it was his fathers case it was heresie in him religion in himselfe to rebell against his father Otto Frisin Episc lib. 7. cap. 8. as Bishoppe Otto said Rebellionem sub specie religionis eò quòd pater eius a Romanis Pont. excoÌ„municatus esset molitur Rebellion vnder colour of religion he attemteth because his father was excomminged of the Roman Bishops Religion was the pretence but ambitioÌ„ of soueraigntie appeareth to bee practise as the same Otto saith Otto Frising Epis lib. 7. cap. 9. The 2. note The Roman kingdom for ambitioÌ„ to raigne was diuided not onely ciuilly but parricidially Thus Otto touching the cause wherfore hee rebelled against his owne father The second note is of the iudgment of God touching the cursings of Popes on him also Pope Pasc the 2. which cursed the father tyced Henry the 5. the son to treason and rebellion against him and who to the counsel of mens wher his father required audience sent his Legats to renue and confirme his old curses against him after that Henry the 5. Ab. Vrsper in chro in an 1106. Paschal 2 Gelatius 1. Calixtus 2. was Emperour for the same cause and claime fell a cursing him also 3. Popes in a row Paschal the 2. Gelasius the 2. and Calixtus the 2. did set on him with cursing and banning for the same cause They
The Lorde keepe me from laying my hand vpon the Lords annoynted So far the Scripture Dauid honored king Saul in the field though he pursued him to death 1. Sam. 24. And humbly hee honoured the person of his Prince euen in the feild and amides the forces furniture of warres For after he came out of the caue where he had so much adoe to qualifie the rage of his souldiers and restrain them from running vpon king Saul he cryed after Saul saying O my Lord the king And when Saul loked behind him Dauid inclined himselfe to the earth and bowed him as the Scripture sayth and after spake to him Notwithstanding that kinge Saule continually sought his blood and in armour lay in the feild against him yet hee honoured the person of his Prince in the middest of the warres And his person was so precious in his sight that he coulde suffer no bodilie harme or violence to be done to him insomuch hee had remorse for cutting off the lappet of his garment What hartes then or rather what addamantes in steed of hartes Zacha. 7. haue they as the prophet Zacharie saith of the Iewes which liuing vnder the peace and protection of so mercifull a Prince can finde in their hartes so much as to thinke any trecherie or violence to her royall person who hath bene so good a mother of her countrie and so pitifull a nurse of the Church of God Epist ad Philemone by whom the bowels of Gods saintes haue beene refreshed as of Philemon Paul sayth and who hath fostered her faithfull subiectes in the blessings and benifites of God which so aboundantly vnder her gouernment so many yeeres God hath bestowed vpon vs. If therefore there be any remorse of conscience to God and his ordinance if there be any bowels of good nature in vs to our naturall and leige Soueraigne if there be any valew of true worthinesse in vs let vs shewe our loue loyaltie and hartie fidelitie to her and honour her royall person as Dauid did the person of his Prince and gard her from al violence in respect of Gods ordinance and the manifold blessinges which vnder her so manie yeeres we haue receaued and that God may blesse vs for our loyaltie and honoring the person of our Prince as he did blesse his faithful seruant Dauid Though his loyalty seemed to be lost touching king Saul yet it was not lost with God for Gods blessngs more abundantly followed fell on him Beside Dauids loyaltie to king Saul was a comfort to him in his troubles 1. Sam. 26. he found such comfort of conscience by it in his troubles that he said to king Saul Behould like as thy life was much set by this day in my eies when he came on him as he lay fast a sleepe so let my life be set by in the eyes of the Lorde that he may deliuer me out of al tribulations So the loyaltie that he shewed to his Prince in respect of God he found aboundantly againe with comforte of conscience in his greatest troubles and his owne life was precious is the sight of God Abigael As Abigael the vertuous woman said to him The soule saith she of my Lord shal be bound in a bundel of life with the Lorde thy God 1. Sam. 25. and the soule of thy enemies shall God cast out as out of the middle of a slinge What comforte and encouragement may this bee to the hartes of true subiectes to their Prince since God blesseth loyaltie and it is a comforte to the conscience in troubles and as their Prince is precious in their sight so for their loyaltie their owne life is more precious in the sight of God Besides this Dauids comfort in the righteousnes of his cause 2. Sam. 25. Dauid tooke comforte of the vprightnesse and innocencie of his cause and thereof hee saide The Lorde rewarde euery man according to his righteousnesse for the Lorde hath deliuered thee into my handes and I would not lay my handes vpon the Lordes annoynted So farre the Scripture And before he said to Saul when he saued his life in the caue 1. Sam. 24. vnderstand and see that there is neither euill nor wickednesse in me yet thou huntest after my soule to take it The Lord bee iudge betweene thee and me and auenge thee of me and let not my hand be vpon thee So farre the Scripture God tooke the iudgment into his handes and deliuered Dauid and auenged his cause of Saul So God hath taken of late the iudgment of the cause into his handes and hath deliuered our gracious Prince reuenged her cause of her enemies the vprightnesse and innocency of her cause is great comfort to her in the sight of God God vouchsafe long as Abigael said to Dauid to binde her soule in a bundle of life and long to locke vppe her life from all her enemies as a iewell of comfort to his Church and our Countrie Thus of the example of Dauid his loyaltie and fidelitie to the person of king Saul notwithstanding he persecuted him to death and howe God blessed him for it The Sixt is the example of the famous fidelitie of one Lylla a Briton and heathen man The 6. cheefe matter in the defence of the royall person of his Prince As I haue layed out at large the example of the loyaltie and fidelitie of Dauid to the person of king Saul so I will set downe breefely the example and fidelitie of one Lylla a Briton in the defence of the royall person of his Prince Fabian in his Cronicle of Englande the 5. part cap. 130. When Edwin king of Northumberland at a Citie beside the water of Darwent in Darbishire being smallie accompanied was sodenly assailed of a murderer and swordman as Fabian calleth him by Quincelinus kinge of the West Saxons hired to it Lylla a Briton his famous fidelity in the defence of the person of his Prince who ranne on him with a sworde that was enuenimed one Lylla the kinges trusty seruant vnarmed and disgarnished of weapon thrust his bodye betweene the traytors sword and the king and saued the king his life with losse of his owne And yet through the bodie of Lylla with the thruste of the sword the king was wounded also because the wound was poysoned it was more hardlie cured A worthy example of famous fidelitie in defence of the royall person of the Prince worthy to liue in the memorie of al faithfull subiectes as a glasse to be set before their eyes to encourage and emboulâ—eÌ„ them as a walle to set their bodies bowels in defence of the royal person of their Prince against the swords of al traytors enemies Though Lylla be dead in person many huÌ„derd yeeres since yet his loyaltie liueth still in the bowels of faithfull subiectes ready to thrust their bodies against the swordes of all traytors and enemies to the royall person of their
had a hollowe heart to his Prince Will wee see him vnder the hatches I will driue thee saith God by the prophet out of thy place before O thou man the Lorde shall carrye thee away into captiuity and shal surely couer thee with confusiō God in Sobna his cause speaketh to all hypocrites like to him of what state soeuer God hath a day for thē as he had for Sobna Bee not deceiued God is not mocked saieth Paul Ga. 6. Hypocrisie is mockerie in the sight of God Psal 2. hee that dwelleth in heauen will laugh them to scorne giue them their portion with hypocrites There may no hypocrite come before him as Iob saith Of what value is salte when it hath lost his sauour saltnesse wherto serueth it Mat. 5. but to be cast out of dores and to be troden vnder the feet af men Beware therfore we be not the vnsauery salt or like painted graues as our Sauior calleth the Pharisees parieted walles as Paul calleth Ananias Mat. 23. Act. 23. 3. Reg. 18. Reue. 3. or such as halt on both sides whom the spirite of God sharply rebuketh by the Prophet Elie or suche as are neither hot nor colde but luke warme as the Laodiceans were whom God threatneth to spue out of his mouth Though he suffreth such to play their parts as painted pageants for a while yet if they repent not sodainly he will haue a time for them Ekibolius the Zophist of Constantinople before Iulian was Emperor Ekibolius the Zophist carried himself as an earnest Christian vnder Iulian he became a cruell Apostata and Panim as Socrates reporteth and after Iulian he would be a Christian againe Socrates eccle hist lib. 3. ca. 13. And his own conscience accusing him to be vnsauery salt he cast him selfe flat on the ground before the Church gate as the people should passe and cryed Calcate me salem insipidū Tread on me that am vnsauerie salt Adeo leuis mobilis saith Socrates ante post Iulianum fuit So light fickle saith he both before and after Iulian hee was If this fickle and flitting wee waxe in religion there will bee a time for conscience to crie If wee bee not vtterly cut off from God and as a dead thing voide of life and if wee beginne once to feele the spurre of conscience though we cast not our selues downe at the Churche dore as he did for the people to treade on yet it is high time to cast our selues downe in the inner temple of our conscience before God with heartie repentance and humble confession vnto him least if wee make no account of conscience and reconciling our selues to him sodainlie hee cast vs out as the vnsauerie salt For as he hath a time of mercy sufferance so hee hath a time also of casting out Valens Vrsacius Valens and Vrsacius Bishops and Captaines of the Arrian heresie followed the sway of the time as Socrates noteth and that part that had the masterie And after that by the great councell of Sardica where 300. Bishops of the West Church were assembled and by vertue of letters sent from Constantius the Emperor Athanasius the Bishop of Alexandria remoued from his Sea before by practise of the Arrians was restored to his former estate and place Valens and Vrsacius not only recāted and offered their recantation to Iulius the bishop of Rome Socrates eccle hist lib. 2. cap. 24. but wrote to Athanasius also that they would ioin thēselues in cōmuniō with him But with relapsing cloaking their heresy they haue left their memorie in reproch in the church of God Euseb the bishop of Nicomedia Euseb Nicomediensis after of Constantinople gaue coūtenāce to Arrius heresies so far as hee dared secretly wrought vnderhand but cloaked outwardly wold not be accoūted to be of Arrius sect as in the epistle of the coūcel of Antioch Socrates eccle hist lib. 2. ca. 10. he with other his consorts wrote Nos neque Arrii assectatores sumus Neither we say they are folowers of Arrius for how being Bishops should wee bee led of a priest And after he with others had wrought his wil on Athanasius he wrote to Iulius Bishop of Rome to bee iudge in Athanasius his cause Thus though he vsed cunning cloaking with men as hypocrites haue many colours yet God iudgeth the cause For shortly after the Councell of Antioch where Eusebius then Bishop of Constantinople was chiefe this Eusebius died Socrates eccle hist lib. ◠cap. 10. And the Citie of Antioch where the Councell was holden was shaken torne with earthquakes by the space of one yeere Eudoxius Eudoxius Bishop of Germanicia and after of Constantinople being of the Arriā sect likewise carried himself in cloudes of hypocrisie to keepe the countenaunce of his estate Theodoritus eccle hist lib. ◠ca. 17. And when by Constantius the Emperor he was pressed hee renounced certaine Arrian termes as grounds of that heresie when he saw that hee was like to bee set on grounde touching his estate But after by his other his consorts Arriās of Cōstantius the aforesaid Syluanus other faithful Bishops were priued of their estates and he and his complices were a floate Iulian the Apostata Iulian the Emperour called the Apostata for his reuolting from the faith of Christ was mōtrous in hypocrisie Before he was Emperor he would seem to betake himself to an extraordinarie strait kinde of life He tooke on him as a monke and was shauen to the skinne as Socrates witnesseth and was made a reader in the Church of Nicomedia Socrat. Eccle. Hist lib. 3. cap. 1. And though he had sucked vp the poyson of Panims yet with such maskes he deluded the world that after he was Emperour he played his pagentes of Hipocrise still He called home from exile faithfull Bishoppes which vnder Constantius the Emperour his predecesser by practise of Arrians had beene banished Neither yet ment he good faith to thē only he vsed it as a gase to serue his turne for hee betrayed the Churches of Christ to Panims But Christ with whom he had cloaked and counterfeited longe sodenly mette with him When he thought of great victorie and triumph in his warres against the Persians Socrat. Eccle. Hist lib. 3. cap. 21. sodenly hee came to his deathes wound hee wist not from whence or whom and euen then with his blasphemous mouth he yeelded victorie to Christ and said Thou man of Galeb so he called Christ in reproch thou hast the victorie And as Christ shewed his dreadfull iudgment on the person of this Emperour who out of the cloudes of hipocrisie brake out to be a persecuting Panim So likewise he executed dreadfull iudgment on the bodies and the very bowels of two graund Captaines of hypocrisie Arrius of whom the Arrian heresie hath name Iudas that betrayed him and on both in manner much of one sort When
king to heare thee O that I were made iudge in the land that euery man that hath matter might come to me that I may doe him iustice Thus as a malecontent himselfe he eggeth the people to discontentment mutening against the state and gouernment of king Dauid his father And after from discontentment hee fell to flat treason So likewise Dathan Coreh Dathan Coreh and Abyram Nu. 16. and Abirā first began with discontentment and mislyking after they fell to murmuring and mutening and at last to open rebellion Sheba blewe vppe his trumpe and said Sheba wee haue noe part in the sonne of Isai so in disdaine he called Dauid 2. Reg. 20. He was a murmuring malecontent at first a ranke rebel after Beware we be not touched with the first lest happely wee bee tised on to the later Where affections are framed perswasion is halfe made The fier flyeth to the tow The match and powder are soone mette Euill affections open a gap to others to make an entrance into vs to assaile vs and to lay snares for vs and so they become stumbing blockes to vs and bring vs to ruine Take heed therefore they doe not carrie vs on and be occasions to plucke vs into the gulph of great daungers by custome they growe into an habit as into an other nature then ther is no sence feeling or remorse of them as in the sicknesse called Hectica Febris when it is growne into an habite and nature Hectica Iowbertus de curan sc lib. 2. cap. 1. and setled in the substance of the bodie though they be in daungerous state yet they lacke sence and feeling of greeuous paine Beware that our mindes be not possessed with like sicknesse whereof though we haue not feeling and remorse by reason it is so rooted and setled yet it may plunge vs into daungerous state It is good therefore to hearken to the councell of the holy Ghost by S. Paul 1. Thess 4. 2. Thess 3. how we should carry our selues in outward dealings affaires That we endeuour ourselues to be quiet and to imploy our owne businesse and not to stake our owne and to bee curious in the affaires of others and as busie bodies whome likewise the Apostle S. Peter reproueth to spie and prie in other mens dealings 1. Pet. ◠to be as controulers of other mens causes to put our sickle into other mens corne to haue an oare in other mens matters to bee climing aboue our calling and to put our selues in great and dangerous actions not appertaining to vs. But let euery one as he is called so cōtent himselfe as Paul exhorteth vsing better if God giueth 1. Cor. 7. and beware that by vncontentment he grow not into bitter affections or eager humours against the Prince and estate and become vnquiet and troublesome in publike and priuate dealings mingling his speech with gall and his actions with bitternesse but that he with a quiet minde keepe himselfe within the precinct of his vocation and within the limites of affaires and actions belonging to him least by aspyring with Adonias and by venturing hazarding and ouerreaching hee loose himself and by lifting at burthens too heauie for him he bee crushed of them God giue grace to all Subiectes to carry themselues in true faith to God true fidelitie to their Prince and to nourish louing and loyall affections in dutifull hearts to their Prince and to powre out heartie prayers and supplications to God for her long life and the long preseruation of her Royall person and prosperous raigne ouer vs to the glory of God the singular comfort of his Church and the great blessing of our whole Countrie THE Second part Against Treasons Rebellions and such like disloyalties PSALME VII Behold hee trauaileth with mischiefe or iniquitie hee hath conceiued sorrowe and brought foorth a lie or vaine thing Hee hath grauen and digged vp a pit and is fallen himselfe into the pit or destruction that he hath made for his trauaile shall come vpon his owne head and his wickednes shall fall vpon his own pate I wil giue thanks or praise vnto the Lord according to his righteousnesse and will sing praise to the name of the Lorde the most highest · DEXTRA · TVA · SVSTENTAVIT · ME · Psal 63 · MR · IN · IVGIS · AD · RHENVM · FLV · ¶ The Contentes principall points and chiefe matters of this Treatise 1 THE Bishop of Rome is the great Patron and practiser of treasons rebellions and such like disloyalties against Christian Princes and Countries with his adherents followers and practisers for him and by colour of authoritie from him In the treatise of this matter I followe this order 1 What engin he hath vsed continually vseth in the practise of such thinges by excommunicating cursing banning of princes cursing and interditing of countries 2 What time chiefly he began to vse this engin of cursing banning Princes lands and practising of treasons rebellions and such disloyalties against them 3 By what meanes the Bishop of Rome and his followers doe manage carrie on their practises of treasons rebellions such disloialties against christiā Princes Realms 4 Of the iudgements of God vpon the cursing and banning Popes 2 Of the conceiuing of treasons rebellions and such like disloyalties by occasion of these words of Dauid in the seuenth Psalme Psal 7. He hath conceiued sorrow 3 How they trauaile with their treasons rebellions and such like disloyalties and wickednesse by occasion of the wordes of Dauid in the same Psalme Hee trauaileth with iniquitie or mischiefe 4 What fruites Traitours Rebels and such like bring foorth by occasion of these words of Dauid in the same Psalme He bringeth foorth a vaine thing or a lie 5 Of the end of Traitors Rebels and such like by occasion of the words of Dauid in the same Psalme Hee hath grauen and digged vp a pit is falne himselfe into the pit or destruction that he hath made for his trauaile shall fall vpon his owne head and his wickednesse shall fall vppon his owne pate 6 Of giuing of thankes and praise to God for his righteousnesse and our deliuerance by occasion of the wordes of Dauid in the ende of the same Psalme I will giue thankes or praise to the Lorde according to his righteousnesse and wyll sing praise to the name of the Lorde the most high Against Treasons Rebellions and such like disloyalties NOw I wil bring foorth the vglie monster of treason rebellion such disloialties into the viewe and sight of all As the Lacedemonians were woont to bryng foorth their slaues and vnderlings whē they were drunken to the open gase and sight of the people that all by seeing of them might abhorre the vice that so disfigured man So I will bring foorth the vglie vice that all may see it and see into it that they may shun and loth it And first I will bring
was officer to Sixtus the 4. Blondus was belonging great about Eugenius the fourth Blondus in prefatione ad Eugen. in lib. Rom. in stau to whom he dedicateth his bookes of Rome restored But other wryters of their owne side as the Abbat of Vrsperg Otto the Bishoppe of Frising Albert Deane of Hauburg Naucler and others notwithstanding they are partiall on the Popes side touching Romish religion and parties with them therein Yet as inforsed by truth cōpelled by conscience to giue witnes to the noble fame excellent vertues and great prayses of this Emperour whom notwtstanding the Popes persecuted with cursing banning one after the other as if the more excellent and Princely qualities were in him the more the furies of Popes were inflamed against him Thus of Friderike the first and how the writers of stories that are partiall and mingle the poyson of their partialitie with their stories are to be red with iudgement to discerne the storie from their partialitie What maruell though wee see the Popes to continue their wonted course of cursing and banning of Christian Princes qualified with excellent giftes and Princely vertues But God hath encountred their cursings and turned them to blessings and two of the cursing Popes already haue had their pasportes Pius 5. Gregor 13. and her Maiestie liueth and reigneth And God graunt she may long liue and prosperously reigne and see the pasportes of many such practising Popes against her Fridericke the second Emperour of that name Fridericus 2. Imp. of Cuspinian is commended for learning and learned writing when his leasure serued Io. Cusp in vita Frid. 2. and for his skill in diuers languages as Latine Greeke Saracen French Duch And that he caused sundry translatiōs out of the Greeke and Hebrewe to bee made Beside he was valiant and victorious in the warres not onely in Christendome but among the heathen He recouered Hierusalem Nazareth Ioppe with the confines of the Soulden of Babylon as Cuspinian reporteth And that yeere he kept his Easter at Herusalem in sumptuouse and royall manner as Vrspergensis telleth And with his Crowne on his head and in Princely aray he shewed himselfe to the people Abbas Vrsperg in an 1229. After he wrot to the Pope of his good successe and the ioy of Christians But he cast his letters away and had no edge to heare of the good newes because of an old grudge he bare to the Emperour And notwithstanding the imploying of his owne person in the warres against infidels the recouery of Hierusalem and the countrie adioyning and that hee was a wise learned valiant and victorious Prince yet he was also excominged and cursed of 3. Honorius 3. Gregorius 9. Innocent 4. Popes Honorius the 3. Gregory the 9. Innocent the 4. Pope Celestin that was before Innocent the 4. was a Pope but of .18 dayes Thus the more excellent vertues were heaped on him with victorious successe against the infidels so the more the cursings and rage of Popes was heaped against him Io. Cuspin in vita Fride 2. And notwtstanding their cursinges bannings God blessed him with great successe victories against the infidels against his other enemies against al the practises of Popes He reigned 32. yeeres as Cusp accounteth ouerliued 3. Popes And Innocent the 4. Io. Cusp in vita Frid 2. that followed them was fayne to packe him into Fraunce far frō the Emperors forces And there being out of his reach at Lyons in a sermon to the people as Albert. Kranz telleth he cryed on the Emperor Alber. Krāz. Saxoniae lib. 8. cap. 12. sited him to make his apparāce at Lyons before him and after in processe excomminged cursed and priued him of the Empire absolued subiectes from their oathes of alleagiance gaue power to the electors to chuse a new Emp. Thus he set on the Emp. with his vsual engin of cursing and banning Alb. Cranz Saxo. lib. 8. cap. 13. but he was sure to haue the Alpes betweene the Emperour and him then he banneth and barketh freely And the Emperour prepared to make his apparance at Lyons and carried with him such a retinue of men of armes men in gounes to furnish his apparance in the Councell at Lyons that as Albertus sayth no Emperour since the Roman Empire beganne eyther at home or abroad carried the like But as he was passing the Alpes hearing euill tydings of Henry his sonne at Parma he was fayne to returne fearing the reuolt of Italie else hee would haue made his aunsweare to the Popes curse and banning in Fraunce if he would abide his comming Of this Pope Innocēt the Emperor assoone as he heard of his election said Alber. Krāz. lib. 8. cap. 11. that hee had chaunged a Cardinal friend for a Pope a bitter enemie For being Cardinall he was the Emperours freind but after he was Pope he fell to banning and cursing of him like an incarnate Diuel The Emperour did prognosticate so much of him before that a Cardinall friend would be turned into a enemie being Pope And euen in that time God sent a light into his Church against the vsurped tyranny practises of Popes against Princes Petrus de Vineis Petrus de Vineis a man of great honour and learning and neer about the Emperour not onely publikely treated the Emperours cause against Pope Gegory the ninth in a great assembly Io. Cusp in Vita Fri. 2. and on the great feast and day of the resurrection of our Sauiour but also wrot books in the defence of the Emperours cause against the outrage of the Popes And Pope Innocent the fourth Platina in vita Innoc. 4 was fayne for answeare to write bookes of defence in his own cause against him But God defended the Emperour against the cursing and raging Popes and. 2 of the Popes faded with their curses before him sone died the 3. the fourth fled into Fraunce and there fell a cursing afresh notwithstanding the Emperour reigned about 32. yeeres Io. Cuspin in vita Fride 2. and dyed by treason of Manfred his base borne sonne after hee was poysoned at Florenzola and vpon his recouery as Cuspinian noteth and some say that he dyed at Panorme Ludouick of Bauar succeded Frederick surnamed the fayre in the Empire Lodouicuae Bauatus Cuspinian commendeth him for a curteous Prince amiable affable in speech and gentle in behauiour and not puffed vp with any prosperitie prouident and prudent valiant in warres Io. Cusp in vita Ludou Bauar◠and that would not bee daunted in daungers Thus Cuspinian prayseth his Princely qualites but notwithstanding he was cursed and banned of three Popes also Ihon the 22. Iohn 22. Benedict 12. Clemens 6. Benedict the twelfth and Clemens the sixt Platina doth name the first Iohn the 23. others account Iohn the 22. to concur in time with Ludouick the Emperour Benedict the 12. was pricked in conscience of cursing him In paralipo
noted how the Pope by sundrie letters and processe had called for the Emperor hee saith but many didde not acknowledge him lawfully chosen without the Emperours consent And yet this is he in the iudgement of Otto Bishop of Frising who first of any Roman Bishop did excōminge and curse the Romane Emperor or King Bishops of Rome in the primitiue Church In the time of generall councels And before Gregorie the 7. The Romane Bishops in the primitiue Church most of them were Martyrs after in the time of the ancient and generall counsels the Catholike faith in the blessed Trinitie was constantly confessed and maintained of them against the Arrians and other heretikes and of those that succeeded them and were predecessors to Gregorie the 7. none tooke on them accordinge to Bishop Otto his protestation to excōminge and curse the Romane Emperor before And were there not Emperors of notorious notes and deserts before some spotted with heresies and some with other greeuous enormities As for the examples of the Emperors Philip Theodotius mentioned of Otto both touching the causes proceedings actiōs in the iudgement of Otto himselfe cannot be obiected for instances against his former protestatiō The Abbat of Vrsperg discoursing the stories of the time Ab. Vrsperg iudgement of Otto his protestation stalleth at the protestation of Otto and first layeth down his words after where Bishop Otto touched the sore he layeth to playsters as a Leach laying to his hande to cure the papall sores being an Abbat and wel willer to the Papall power Ab. Vrsperg in chro tit aenacephaleosis Impe. Conradi c. First hee saith that Emperors and Princes of certaine nations haue been deposed before that time for causes thogh not by authority of the bishop of Rome as Emperors in Constantinople haue been This toucheth not the case of Otto his protestation The second is An instance of Grego 3. an instance concerning the case of Gregorie the 3. which caused all Italie to reuolt from the Emperor of Constātinople excomminged him and priued him of his kingdome Touching this instaunce of Gregorie the 3. who was about the yeere of Christ 731 Platina the writer of popes liues saith Platina in vita Greg. 3. that he excominged and priued the Emperor Cuspinian sayth that hee priued him of the communion and fellowship of the faithfull Io. Cusp in vita Greg. 3. and that hee reuolted from him and caused the tributes payable to the Emperour to be yeelded to the French and yeelded himselfe to the obedience of the French Carrolus Martellus Carolus Martellus carrying then the Regiment of France and called Maior Domus as Platina witnesseth Platina in vita Zacha. 1 Wherefore did he reuolt from the Emperour of Constantinople and caused the tributes of the Empyre in Italie to be turned to the French because the Emperour of Constantinople Leo the thirde of that name had made Proclamations Leo the third Emperor his proclamatiōs against images that images shoulde bee voided out of Churches and burned therof they called him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Therfore Gregorie the third preferring dead images before the Emperor who was touching his Imperiall soueraigntie the liuelie image of God reuolted from his obeisaunce turned the tributes of the Empire to the French put himselfe at their deuotion excomminged the Emperor priued him saith Platina the officer to Popes Abbreuiator Apostolicus as Abbat Tritenhemius termeth him Ab. Triten de eccle scrip But it was a poore priuing of the Emperour when hee raigned 24. yeeres till of Gods visitation hee ended his life Till God depriued him of his life hee was not priued of his Empire yet Platina the writer of the storie of Popes saieth hee excomminged him and priued him of his Empire thus they vtter great wordes and perfourme small actions Io. Cusp in vit Leonis 3. Cuspinian telleth out of Iohn the Monke of whom he borrowed the storie that the bishop priued the Emperor of the fellowship of the faithfull But Bishop Otto farre auncienter then Platina or Cuspinian late writers in comparison of him and who was before the Abbat of Vrsper Otto Frisin Episc lib. 6. cap. 35. also cōfesseth that notwithstanding he hath read and read ouer again the stories of the Roman Emperors and kings yet he neuer could finde any Romane Emperor and king excōminged of a Roman Bishop before Henrie the 4. of Gregorie the seuenth Bar. Platina Io. Cuspini Platina was more then foure hundred yeeres after Bishop Otto Cuspinian farre later vnder Maximilian the Emperour Iohn the Monke out of whō Cuspini Io. the Monk taketh his report Otto Frising Episc belike is a late writer also But Otto had read the stories of auncient memories and out of his reading affirmeth neuer Emperor to haue been excominged of a Roman Bishop before What maner of excōminging did Gregorie the 3. vse against Leo the third Emperor of Constantinople As he excōminged him so he priued him Hee priued him yet he kept his Empire during life hee excōminged him yet stil the faithfull not only kept communion with him but their allegeance to him So his excōminging was a putting him out of his communion and company and of those that were of his obedience therin because they would not keepe companie with dead images the quicke with the dead Therfore hee made suche stirre for the dead among the liuing in Italie reuolted from the Empire which had aduaunced and fostered the Bishop of Rome in that state to the French and bereaued the Empire of the tributes and manage of Italie and in processe so weakened the Empire of Constātinople The Bishop of Rome weakened betraied the Empire that it became a pray to Turkes and Infidels The Bishop of Rome first pulled it down on his knees after came the Turks and ouerranne it when one is downe he is soone ouercome The Bishop of Rome in defence of dead images displaying the banner of his reuolt in Italie from the Empire of Constontinople and by that meanes impouerishing it by taking away of tributes due to it and weakening the force of it by the reuolt of the men did open as it were the dore to the Turke to ouerrunne the Empyre If wee looke who betrayed the Citie of Constantinople Ioh Io. Iustinian betraied the citie of Constantinople to Mahomet the 2. Iustinian of Gen beareth that infamie If we looke who betrayed the Empire of Constantinople it was the bishop of Rome in effect by carrying Italy to reuolt after him by dispoyling the Empire of tributes disfurnishing it of mē by plucking it as it were on ground by feathering his nest out of the Empire and by the fal therof moūting himself in Italie Thus for answere to the Abbat of Vrsperg to his instance of Gre. the 3. his excomminging and priuing Leo the 3 of his Empire Ab. Vrsper anacephaleosis Imperat. c After that the Abbat
father The Abbat of Vrsperg with too much partialitie and bitternesse against Henry the 4. Io. Cusp in vita Henr. 4. corrupteth the storie and therefore of Cuspinian one of their owne religion is reproued as also Hermānus Contract Hermānus Blondus Platina Merula Mouthie Merula and such others The Italian wryters of stories as Blond Plat. such others are 2. great pleasers of Popes and deliuer not the storie with such indifferencie between Emperours and Popes as they should doe because of the partialitie of religion and of their Countrie and their intertainment following after Popes The freshe fountaine Arethusa of Sicilie by the salte Sea is counted a strange thing in nature Italian wryters of stories Arethusa the foūtaine And in writing of stories it strange for an Italian writer of stories to be free from partialitie of Popes being so neere them and eftsoones appertayning to them as Platina and Blondus and such others Therfore with good iudgment they must be red to sifte the corne from the chaffe the storie from the partialitie of Popes But the Abbat of Vrsperg though he be not of the Countrie of Popes yet because he hath a Pope in his conscience as rolled on the groundes of Poperie runneth thicke with dregges of partialitie to Popes Abbas Vrsperg in chr in an 1106. and so corrupteth the clerenesse of the storie No maruaile though hee call Henry the 4. thus cursed of the Popes an Arch-pirate and Arch-heritike Nabucodonezer and Iulian. Iohn Cuspinian who was of Maximilians councell and of their owne religion Io. Cusp in vita Hen. 4. prayseth Henry the fourth for an eloquent liberall and godly Prince sharpe of wit and warlike and luckie in the warres that fought moe battailes in his owne person then either M. Marcellus or Iulius Caesar the famous warriers in the stories Thus Cuspinians prayses of him Otto Frisin Episc ann lib. 7. cap. 11. Bishoppe Otto reporteth the opinions of others touching his almes deedes and many workes of mercie donne by him in respecte whereof they think he merited of God as out of the humors of the darkenesse of that time they speake to haue the wanton conuersation of his youth wholie he was aliue to bee punished with such afflictions in this present world Thus Bishoppe Otto deliuereth the iudgmentes of others of him Albert Deane of Hanburg and deuout of their side Alber. Kranz Saxo. Lib. 5. cap. 24. yet can not bury in silence his condigne prayses he sayeth hee was a noble a learned a valiant Prince of goodly personage fit for a king and that by the space of 50. yeeres kept the soueraigntie of the publike state yet hee inspergeth him with great vices and pride that would not stoupe Thus Alberts report of him Touching Pope Gregorie the 7. that first cursed him Abbas Vrsperg in chr in an 1800. Brixiense Con. he is charged in the councell of Brixia with haynous crimes and that he is a Necromansier and that dealeth with a familiar And the Bishoppes in the councell of Brixia referre themselues to the authoritie of a councell at Mens holden against him before Ab. Vrsperg in an 1076. Worma concil And in the councell of Wormes hee is likewise charged with great infamies Otto Fris Epis lib. 6. cap. 35. Bishoppe Otto sayeth that hee was the first of his knowledge in the Roman stories that tooke vpon him to excommunicate and curse a Roman Emperour or king The Abbat of Vrsperg saith Ab. Vrsperg in an 74. that vnder him the whole Church began to be turmoild with new errors of schismes that neuer were hard before In the coūcel of Wormes likewise he is charged that the Church of God through the abuse of his nouelties is indaungered with so sore a tempest Abbas Vrspergensis in an 1076. Thus the Bishoppe of his owne religion and wryters of his own side reporte of him and of the strange euils of schismes and diuisions neuer heard of before and of the abuse of his nouelties No marueile then though he were the firste that vndertook the excōmunicating cursing of a Roman Emperour as Otto voucheth and rent the whole Church with schismes and the ciuill and publike state with diuisions and rebellions Bishoppe Otto when hee commeth to the point of the cause touching the deposing of Henry the fourth from his Emperiall state vppon the Popes curse Bishop Otto suspendeth his iudgment passeth it ouer without interlasing his owne iudgement and opinion of the proceedings thereof and sayeth all which thinges whether they were lawfullye or vnlawfullye done wee doe not determine Thus Bishoppe Otto kepte his iudgment in suspence Otto Frising Episc lib. 7. cap. 11. touching the proceedinges against Henry the fourth by laying downe the storie with profession that hee will not lay downe any iudgement of it May wee not as it were at a loupe and hole see the day So we may sound his iudgment by his profession that hee will giue noe iudgement in the cause If hee had liked the Popes curse and the proceedinges against the Emperour he needed not to be daintie of his iudgment whereof no daunger ensued to him which was so plausible on the Popes side and at which the Popes Clergie as it were clapped their handes But because it was a bone in his conscience to haue such outrage done to Princes vppon the Popes curse hee keepeth his conscience cleere for giuing iudgment in the case though otherwise for his religion right on the Popes side the Monkes of Morimond Abbey among whome he dyed and the order of the Cistertian Monkes which he professed might witnesse Aeneas Syl. in Hist Austral If hee should lay downe his iudgment against the Pope in fauour of Henry the fourth he shuld plucke the Pope and his Clergie vpon him Then Otto one of their owne Bishoppes and a professed Monke of the Cistertians order Heretikes against the Pope Henry the 4. Wigbert Archbishop of Rauenna Wekil Archbishop of Mens Abbas Vrspergensis in chro in an 1085. should be an heretike against the Pope also as Henry the fourth was made an heretke for opposing himselfe against the Pope and Wigbert Archbishop of Rauenna was made an heretike because of Henry the fourth he was promoted to be bishoppe of Rome in the place of Gregorie the seuenth and as Wekil the Archbishop of Mens was called an Arch-heretike in the councell of Quintiligoburg as Vrspergensis calleth it because in holding disputatiō against Geberherdus Archbishop of Salzburg for Henrie the 4. his soueraigne Lord he laid downe his reasons of the preiudicing his Soueraigne by the Pope other Princes and that he being dispoyled of his dominion in Saxoni before Duke Rodolphs rebellion was not lawfully to bee called We kill his disputations for Henry the 4. iudged and condemned They were so netled with the disputation of VVekill the Archbishop of Mens for his Soueraigne that they called an other councel at Quintilingoburg where
Otto Bishoppe of Ostia the Popes Legate was Ab. Vrsperg in chro in an 1086. and there VVekill was made an heretike and called an Arch-heretike This Otto president of this Councel was after the death of Gregory the 7. who died at Salern made Pope in his place and then hee fell a cursing of Henry the 4. as his predecessor had done No maruaile though hee were so apt to coyne heresies and to challenge them to bee Arch-heretikes which helde disputations for the Emperor against the Pope Trowe you what should Otto Bishop of Frising haue bin in their mouthes Wherefore Bishop Otto leaueth his iudgement in suspence if hee had intermedled his iudgement for Henry the 4. against the popes proceedings Would they not haue forgotten his religion his monkerie of Morimond the order of Cistertians whereof hee was professed he should haue been an Arch-heretike as Wigbert and Wekil were Therefore Bishoppe Otto seeing the daunger though he were of the Imperiall house himselfe lappeth it vp in his owne conscience and saith he wil not deale in determining the cause but layeth down the storie Yet hath he left a loupe-hole to loke into his iudgment Thus he qualifieth it with soft words videntur tameÌ„ saith hee culpandi sacerdotes per omnia qui regnum suo gladio quèm ipsi ex regum habent gratia ferire conantur Otto Frisin Episc lib. 7. in Prolog Popes haue receiued their swordes of Princes which they turne on theÌ„ Yet saith he the Priests algates seeme culpable which take in hand to strike the kingdome with their sword which of the grace of Princes they haue receiued Thus Otto And least he should seeme to haue launched to deepe by and by he layeth to a plaster except parhaps saith he they thinke to follow Dauid which first by Gods might ouerthrew the Philistine and after killed him with his owne sword He dare not bide by it least he able for it as the Emperour did Therefore he frameth an excuse for them out of Dauids example who killed the Philistine with his own sword So they are Dauids in this construction and Princes Philistines which are killed with their owne sworde that they gaue to them But howsoeuer Otto seemeth to houer and not to giue directe iudgement in the Emperours cause for drawing himselfe in suspicion and daunger also And howsoeuer he gloseth this example for them they are Philistines in the right intendment which contrarie to Goddes ordinances strike Dauids and Princes elected of God with the sword that of the grace of Princes they haue receiued Otto pointeth at the sore but feareth to lanche it too deepe in saying that Popes strike Princes with the sword which they haue receiued of them The Primitiue Church was striken with the sworde of Princes for the faith of Christ the Popes Church striketh Princes against the ordinance of Christ with the sworde which they haue receiued of Princes Pope Paschal the second who cursed both the father and the sonne Henry the fourth first Pope Pasc cursed the father and the sonne and Henry the fifth after the death of his father in the councell of Rome saieth the Primitiue Church florished with the blood of martirs before God but not before men After in the ende kinges and Emperours The councell of Rome and Roman Princes were conuerted Qui matrem suam ecclesiam sicut boni filij honestauerunt Who to their mother the Church didde honestie and honour in aduauncing her Abbas Vrsperg in aâ— 1112. And bestowed landes reuenewes and royalties on her as Constantine the Emperour and other the faithfull and the Church began to florish then so well before God as â—â—fore men So farre the wordes of Pope Pachal He confesseth from whom they haâ—â— their principalities and royalties and the sworde of which Otto speaketh which they haue turned vpon Princes of whom they first receiued it Further at the same time Pope Paschal said as Albertus Kranz and the Abbat of Vrsperg reporteth his wordes much like in effect Habeat saith he mater ecclesiae dona principum Let mother Church saith hee haue the giftes of Princes dispence dispose and giue them to whom lawfully she may wil. Thus farre Pope Paschals words It is apparant by their own confession froÌ„ wheÌ„c they haue reuenewes royalties principalities and their worldly countenance and the sword mentioned of Otto before If the donation of Constan as they cal it were true as Laurence Valla a noble Roman with long discourse proueth it to be forged yet from the Roman Emperour they claime it Laurence Valla against the donation of Constant But Gregorie the 7. who cursed Henry the fourth before Paschal the second setteth Pope Paschal to schoole and fetteth his conuayance of Rome from Christ Grego 7. Alb Kranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 7. as Alb. reporteth the verse which with a Crowne he sent to Duke Rodolph that by rebellion against Henry the â—â—â—th he should winne the Crowne and wear 〈◊〉 A fit Champion to giue first onset on Emperours as Otto his opinion is to curse them to strike theÌ„ with the sword which they haue receiued of theÌ„ as an vnkind Impe persecuting plaging the Empire out of which it sprang Hederae Anaplexicaulis Mathe. in lib. 2. Dios cap. 75. Theophrast wryteth of Hedera the Iui that is called Amplexicaulis Matheolus citing it because it groweth about trees and girdeth them in so ouergroweth them in the end that the trees decay and it florisheth in the decayes of the trees as he saith Necat exiccat ablato alimento it killeth starueth trees by sucking away their nurrishment from them So Popedom hath been to Thempire it growed first out of Thempire after it hath so ouergrowen girded in continually sucked the Empire that it hath starued in manner Thempire The Church of Rome mounted in the decaies of the Empire Otto Fris Epis lib. 7. in prologo in respect of the former estate therof and florisheth it self in the decayes of it and by the fall of the auncient Empire Emperors it is mounted aloft Bishop Otto saith by the decay of TheÌ„pire the Church is growen to a great mountaine and began to grow in great state and authoritie And before he meÌ„tioneth the opinioÌ„s of some Non desunt saith he qui dicunt deum ad hoc regnum immini volitisse vt ecclesia exaltetur There lacke not saith he that say that therfore God would haue the kingdome to deâ— that the Church should be exalted thus Oâ—to Thei glorie of the exaltation of their Church by the decayes of the Empire and ruines of Emperors whoÌ„ by treasons rebellions and outrage of subiectes against their Princes and of the sonne against his owne father they haue ouerthrowen How doth Antichrist exalt himselfe and lift vp his hornes as Vrspergensis spake of lifting vppe the hornes of the Church of Rome Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. by plucking Henry
then disgarnished of the robes of his estate Polid. Hist Angl. lib. 18. and after put in execution Polidor telleth of a pacte or platte of treason made with Robert kinge of Scotes by him with his owne opinion in the ende Thus Sir Andrew Herkelies treason turned on his owne head in the ende Sir Roger Mortimer surnamed of Wigmor may for his aduauncemeÌ„t first Sir Roger Mortimer Fabian the 7 part in an 1324. corruption and treasons after well bee ioyned to him Vnder Edward the second being committed to the Tower hee made escape by giuing a sleeping drinke to his keepers as Fabian witnesseth Then he gotte him into Fraunce to Queene Isabell daughter to Philippe Lebew and wedded to kinge Edward Polidor Hist lib. 18. whom kinge Edward with her sonne hadde sent into Fraunce to intreat a concord and peace betweene Charles the French king and him After the returne of Queene Isabell Prince Edward her son with force of armes after the deposing of Edward the 2. in the Parliament holden at London Fabian in an 1328. Fabian the 7 part in an 1326. Sir Roger Mortimer who returned likewise in their retinue was by the singular fauour of Queene Isabell in wthose Court he bare the sway aduaunced in the Parliament of Salisburie vnder Edward the third to bee Earle of March as Sir Andrew the aforesaid was vnder Edward the second his father preferred to bee Earle of Carlile or Cardoile as is mentioned before And in the end this Sir Roger of Wigmor was executed for treason against his Prince and Countrie as the same Sir Andrew was But this Sir Roger was mounted farre higher in fauour in the Court and in the regiment dealings of estate and cause of profite that did accrew to the Crowne And hee had great troupes and routes hanging on him Chronica Fructus temp the 7. parte as Chronica Fructus temporum telleth what a number of knightes were retayned to him when hee was taken The regiment of the lande and affayres of profitte passed through the Queenes hands and his And the Lordes before assigned to haue the guiding of the yong king were sequestred so that alone the rule of the lande as Fabian sayeth rested in the Queene and the said Sir Roger Fabian the 7. part in an 1328. And great things of the realme saith he were out of order But Sir Roger bare himself so high that at length hee plucked both the king and his Councell vppon him So that in time by the king his assent and the meanes of Sir William Montague and sir Rafe Stafford and sir Iohn Neuel and others hee was by a compassed meane as Fabian termeth it arrested and takeÌ„ in the castle of Nottingham Fabian the 7 part in anno 1329. where the king and Queene then lay The keyes of the castle were daily and nightly vnder the ward and keeping of the said sir Roger as Fabian saith Chronica Fructus Temporum telleth Chro. Fruct temp 7. part that the Constable of the Tower led sir William Montague and his companie a priuie way vnder earth euen into the Tower where sir Roger was lodged From thence with sir Simon of Bedford and others he was sent to the Tower of London And in the end for his priuitie to the death of king Edward the second the king his father Fabian the 7 part in anno 1330. for other treasons charged and proued against him in the Parliament at London he was by authoritie of the same Parliament Fabian witnessing it iudged to death And vppon S. Andrewes euen next ensuing at London he was drawen and hanged He was charged not onely with treason against Edward the seconde the kings father to haue been the meanes of his most traiterous death fearing least nature woulde worke in the young king to set him at libertie againe Polidor hist Ang. lib. 18. as Polidore noteth and because Queene Isabel had written likewise letters of kindnesse vnto him but also hee was charged with treason against king Edward the 3. his sonne against his countrie to haue been the meane that the Scots escaped from the king at Stanhop park where they had fallen into the kings danger ne had byn the fauour of the said sir Roger then shewed to them further that an vnprofitable dishonorable peace as Fabian termeth it was by his meane concluded betweene the king and the Scots For first as Fabian writing of the Parliament of Northampton saith the king released to the Scots their fealtie and homage Fabian the 6 part in anno 1327. And he deliuered to them olde auncient writinges sealed with the seales of the kings of Scots Lords of the land both spiritual and temporal with many other Charters and Patentes by the which the kings of Scots obliged theÌ„ to bee â—eodaries to the crowne of England At which season also were deliuered certaine iewels which beforetimes had been wonne from the Scots The blacke crosse of Scotland Chro. Fruct temp in Edward â—qe 3. among the which the blacke Crosse of Scotland is specially named Chronica Fructus TemporuÌ„ according to the blacke darknesse of the superstitious time saith that this black Crosse was a ful precious relike which good king Edward conquered in Scotland brought it out of the Abbey of Stone And maketh mentioÌ„ also of the famous Indenture called Ragman Ragman the Indenture of the homages and fealties of Scotlande which the Scots made to king Edward king Henry his son in which were conteined all the homages and fealties first of of the king of Scotland all the Prelates Earles and Barons of the Realme of Scotland with their seales set there vnder other charters remembrances that king Edward and his Barons had of their right in the aforesaid realm of Scotland Fabian the 7 part in anno 1327. Of this Indenture Ragman mention is made also in the article obiected to this sir Roger at his arraignment before the iudges of the Parliament in London Thus the said sir Roger for sundrie treasons against his Prince Countrie was openly arraigned condemned executed as is aforesaid And thus of the treasons of Edric of Stratton of Eltrick the Admiral sir Andrew Hardikel sir Roger Mortimer of Wigmor and the executioÌ„ done on theÌ„ To these I will adde the notable exaÌ„ple of Hebert Earle of Vermandois in France of his treason against Charles king of France surnamed the Simple Hebert his execution vnder Lewes the 5. of the name And the example of Q. Brunchild in France Brunchild for her treasons the straÌ„ge execution done on her Metius Suffetius And likewise on the murderers of Charles Earle of Flaunders on Metius Suffetius and on two Traitors of the chamber of Frotho king of Danes Polido And these abundantly may suffice for the ending of this treatise First touching Hebert his treasons against Charles the Simple Ro. Gag