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B00425	The pope's parliament, containing a pleasant and delightful historie, wherin are ... deliuered ... the paltry trash and trumperies of him and his pelting prelats ... : Whereunto is annexed an Anatomie of Pope Ioane, more apparently opening her whole life and storie. / Written by Iohn Mayo.	Mayo, John, fl. 1607-1629.	1591 (1591)	STC 17752; ESTC S124300	38,680	52

learnedly written hereof he that list to read that discourse of his shal easily beléeue the whole matter to be fabulous Truth it is that such a one indéede hath of late written thereof and beaten his braines not a little to helpe out this matter but all in vaine for he was one of the Popes Parasites hired and procured by him onely for that businesse His booke was printed in Venice and plausiblie accepted of his friends and welwillers but the stuffe that he hath brought in there to make the world beléeue that there was neuer any Pope Ioane in Rome is such trash so ridiculous that it will grieue a good Christian in his heart to read and sée it Quid non mentiri vel quid non protinus audet Fingere mortale ingenium vt sibi maior eundi In praeceps pateat via liberiorque potestas Peccandi detur minus peccata pudoris In se contineant This is the craft and policie of the Pope to hire procure men to smooth and sooth his matters and to face and grace out his impieties with many forged lies false suppositions thinking by that meanes to dazel mens eyes and to make them beléeue they be true godly and apostolical This haue many popish Pages of late done Most impudent and notorious railers and liers and especially Amphilochius Onuphrius Surius and Hieronimus Bolsecus one that hath vsed most shamelesse rayling most vile spiteful and horrible lies and cauils with an immoderate and vnciuile bitternesse procéeding from the vnsauerie and vnquiet humour of his heart against the godly and reuerend ministers of the gospel Caluin Beza with others moe God of his mercie graunt that they may repent and amend their liues renounce their damnable errors forsake their cursed slanders and not aduenture their wits in such desperate causes For Nemo periculosiùs peccat quàm qui peccata defendit No mā sinneth with more danger then he that standeth in defence of sinne CHAP. V. VVhat yeare of the Lord Pope Ioane liued in Rome How long she was Pope and betweene what Popes she was Herodotus XErxes the great king of Persia when he brought ouer his huge armie into Grecia sent out his letters of defiance vnto the great mount Athos that is in Macedonia and commanded him to stand still and not to stirre a foote nor to worke any displeasure either to himselfe or to his armie Euen by like authoritie and with as good discretion the Pope and his hyrelinges haue done with dame Ioane who being able no kind of way to colour or cloake her sufficiently haue sent out their letters and defiance to all Countreyes and Regions that perfectly knowe her commanding them not once to spurne or kicke against her nor so much as to make any record or mention of her But let them wrastle and wrangle so much as they will let them curse defie while they list and let Onuphrius and all the rabble rout of them do what they can the truth thereof will neuer be forgotten it is and will be absolutely knowne to the vtter confusion of proud Antichrist and to the euerlasting execration of all the popish and péeuish synagogues For although they haue left the name of Pope Ioane out of the Calendar of the bishops of Rome onely for shame What the cause was that they haue left Pope Ioane out of their Calendar least it should appeare in records that a woman such a woman had béene bishop of Rome or that the bishop of Rome had béene with child and although they neuer cease to bolster and bungle vp the matter sometime with this shift sometime with that sometime affirmatiuely sometime negatiuely yet so many Chronicles would not haue recorded it nor so many mē would haue written it nor the world would so vniuersally haue beléeued these things of that Pope more then of any other had it not beene true credible and veritie For where I pray begā the history of her first In Rome From what place was it first published abroad into the world From Rome What be they that haue written and declared it The trustie friends of Rome yea the great autenticall doctours and commissioners of the Pope haue described and auouched it some liuing foure hundred yeares agoe some fiue hundred who haue euer béene counted famous fathers in Rome and worthy of no small authoritie and reuerence What yeare of our Lord was dame Ioane Pope in Rome As they haue written 853. How long was she in the Popedome As they haue written two yeares one moneth and foure dayes Betwixt what Popes was she As they themselues haue written betwéene Leo the fourth and Benedict the third Séeing then that our aduersaries owne friends and Proctours haue written and related it and so plainly and expresly shewen it I maruell much with what faces any of them can denie it or go about to excuse it CHAP. VI. What Pope Ioanes name was how she was not borne in England but at Mentz in Germanie and how she came to Rome and to the Popedome MAny there be I know and those our owne countrimen who thinke and beléeue dame Ioane to be an English woman borne I can coniecture no other thing to be the cause hereof but report onely being for the most part more common then true The cause why Pope Ioane is thought to be an English woman borne and especially because in manie authors entreating of this matter is found Iohannes Anglicus or Iohannes de Anglia which séemeth vnto them to be translated Iohn an English man or Iohn of England Because I would haue all those that be not as yet truely certified and resolued herein to agrée togither and rightly to beleeue this point I will declare vnto them the truth of the matter Why she was called Ioane English according to the opinions of the best and most approued writers She was called Ioane English by the surname of her father and borne at Mentz in Germany Martinus Polonus the Popes ghostly Penitentiarie discoursing at large of this matter affirmeth the same for thus he writeth Iohannes Anglicus natione Maguntinus sedit annos duos mensem vnum dies quatuor c. Iohn English so surnamed borne at Mentz sate in the Romaine Sea two yeares one moneth and foure dayes Theodoricus Niemus also sometime the Popes Secretarie and therefore had good cause to know the truth hereof doth liuely paint out the whole matter and expresly sheweth the same Et fuit mulier de Maguntia nata quae studuit Athenis sub virili habitu in tantum profecit in artibus vt tandem veniens Romam per biennium in schola Artes liberales legerit adeo sufficiens fuit vt etiam Maiores Nobiles vrbis eius lectiones frequenter audiuerint Et postea eligitur in Papam c. And there was Ioane a woman borne at Mentz and had studied at Athens in the apparell of a man and had so profited in the Artes that at last comming to Rome two yeares together she professed the liberall Sciences in a Schoole And her gift in teaching was such that the Elders and Nobles of the Citie resorted often to heare her reade Afterward she was chosen Pope c. We néede not cite any more testimonies for farther proofe hereof Pope Ioane a Dutchwoman borne these two doe manifestly shewe that she was a Dutchwoman borne and not called Ioane English by the name of the Countrey for that she was an English woman borne in England as many imagine but only by the surname of her father For who knoweth nor that there are many at this day called by the names of Scot Irish French Welsh Norman Gascoyne Holland and yet not borne in any of these Countries but onely in Englande Therefore it is true and without all doubt that Pope Ioane was not borne in England but in Germany Notwithstanding some there be whose authoritie is verie credible and sufficient that say her name was Gilberta Her right name was Gilberta but called Ioane the eight Pope Ioane was a studēt at Athens and called Ioan the eight who likewise affirme that she was a Dutch-woman of Mentz and went with an English Monke out of the Abbey of Fulda to Athens in mans apparell Well truth it is that she was in the young yeares of a girle brought to Athens by one that was her louer in mans apparell There she studied and profited so much in diuerse sciences that none were found to be compared with her This is not straunge Women brought vp in mens apparell and taken for men nor much to be marueiled at For Rauisius Textor in Officina writeth the like of one Marina that dissembling what she was liued many yeres in an Abbey as a Monke of Lasthenia Axiothea and others that being women came into the Schoole in mans apparell to heare Plato The like doth many others write of Euphrosyna that holy mayde that dwelt 36. Pope Ioane came to Rome She was created Pope of Rome Her behauiour in that high office A most liuely president of the whorish Sea yeares in Monkes apparell among Monkes and was neuer otherwise taken then for a Monke From Athens shee came to Rome and there professed learning openly and had great Doctors to her Schollers and for opinion of learning and good life by one consent of all was made Pope being in this high and glorious seate she behaued her selfe so orderly and discharged that supernall office so absolutely that she was with child and as she went in Procession deliuered thereof and so dyed Thus was the Pope of Rome who is such a parls fellowe that he can not erre a woman with child deliuered in procession dead openly in the stréetes and buried without any honour or solemnitie God giue all Christians grace by this example to beware of the Antichristian and Babylonicall Pope to renounce him and all his errors to reiect him and all his Parasites and to sée the trueth and that blessed hope wherevnto they haue béene called so as they may glorifie him alone who is the true God and also that same Iesus Christ whom he sent downe to vs from heauen to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be giuen all honour and glorie euerlastingly Amen FINIS

she was so or no. What though she was brought vp in mans apparrell What though she was Pope of Rome with child and deliuered thereof in procession What spot and crime is this to vs What cause of banishment I pray you heartely can we heale the sore or quiet the slaunder Hath it béene in our power to remedie the euill and asswage the mischiefe Was not she fiue hundred yeares and more before this our time Then truely truely we are for that no more to be banished then the French are because their ancetours were sometime like to spoile and sacke the Capitoll or the Italians are because Petrus the head Captaine of the citie of Rome with two Consuls and twelue Aldermen and diuers other nobles gathering their powers togither laid hands vpon Pope Iohn the fourtéenth in the church of Laterane and clapt him in prison eleuen monethes Whereas it is farther obiected that our kinges Magistrates and rulers haue contemned and vilified the holy sea of Rome and haue verie ill entreated the Popes themselues with their Legates and faithfull seruants and that none of our countrie haue done such seruice fealtie and obedience to this blessed chair of Peter as it was meete and requisite for them I will proue the contrarie and that by such cléere and euident testimonies that you shal sée the obiections against vs flie away as the night clouds before the sunne What one of all our kings before the time of king Henrie the eight but did fauour and fortifie the holy Sea of Rome did homage and duetifull obedience to it and princely and honourablie fought in defence of it against the Turkes and Infidels and all other aduersaries whatsoeuer What a famous and singular king was Edgar What a worthy maintainer of the catholike faith doctrine He builded for religious monks 48 monasteries or as some report as many as be sundayes in the yeare Did not king Iua after he had ruled the West Saxons 37. yeares go to Rome and become a Monk resigning his kingdom to Ethelardus his Nephew These kings became Monkes Did not the Quéene also Ethelburga become an Abbesse ledde thereto with great and pure deuotion Did not Ethereldus of Mercia Kemedus of Mercia Offa of East Saxons Selly of East Saxons and Sigebertus king of East Angles do the like Haue not manie Queenes and kings daughters with other noble women become Nunnes for the zeale and loue they had to the Apostolique faith of Rome as Hilda Ercheirgoda with her sister Ermenilda These Queens became nūnes Edelberga Werburga Kinreda Kinswida her sister Elfleda with many others What shall I tell you of king Canutus who went to this holy citie on pilgrimage and founded here an hospital for English pilgrims and had such loue and heartie affection to it that he gaue to the Pope many precious gifts and burthened his land with a yearely tribute called the Romeshot I could tell you of many mo but for breuitie I will ouerslip them What shall I speake of many other excellent men which England hath nourished and fostered who haue refused no paines and forsaken no perils for the glorie and aduauncement of the Sea Apostolique of Rome He wrote a book against him called Opus scintillaerum Weakly and simplie God knoweth as is to be seen Traitors and conspirators Shall I tell you of Lanfrancus bishop of Canterburie that confuted the Sacramentarie heresie of Berengarius of the learned Abbot Petrus Cluniacensis that conuicted the doctrine of the Peterbrusians of Thomas Walden a most learned man that wrote against Wickliffe of the holie Bishop Fisher that learnedly refuted Luther Oecolampadius Shall I tel you of Cardinal Poole Gardiner Martin and of others of later memorie as Saunders Cope Bristow Dorman Parsons Morton and of an hundred more all which haue beene such worthie proctours and singular champions for the Catholike religion that no other Countrey hath yéelded and brought forth the like For as that nation first receiued the fayth from Rome so those which are not fallen into the damnable beresies of the Hugonetes and other secrataries do reuerence and obey the same and for their conscience will abide any crosse and tribulation whatsoeuer Saint Eleutherius Pope and Martyr the first Apostle of Brytaine preached in that land by Damianus Fugatius within little more then 100. yéers after Christs death Gregorie the great that holie Pope caused to be preached to the English nation by Augustinus Melitus and other holy priestes although the gospellers that be there now denie this and say that as well the report of Eleutherius as also of Augustine that the one was the first Apostle of the Brittaines the other of the English is vntrue and blindly hold that the faith was not first preached there by them the Gospel came into England frō the East and not from Rome but either by Ioseph of Arimathaea or by S. Paul the Apostle passing that way into Spaine or by Simon Zelotes or by the Gréeks or some others But the English only you say and none but they do hinder and annoy your sacred and ghostly procéedings and also subuert the good and gracious attempts of all your friends most loyall children What is this to vs They are gone from vs they are not of vs they are none of our fold they are giuen ouer to Sathan we haue forsaken them we haue no societie with them we defie damnifie detest them we reuolt not nor once so much as wauer we stick wholly and solely A verie hote and earnest proctor firmly fréely to the auncient Romane doctrine and so we will do come life come death come heauen come hell come fire come sword come any crosse or losse whatsoeuer Shal we be for this our loue tender affection reiected shal we be lopped off frō this fruteful vine as vnprofitable vnsauerie branches shall we be banished and yet iustly conuicted of no crime or offence that deserueth it If we be we must take it patiently but truly we will say and say againe iniusta nouerca summum ius summa iniuria an vnnaturall mother great right great iniurie The Pope perceiuing his vehement allegations his tediousnesse therein interrupted him with this chat Cease thy babling Cardinal leaue off thy ands and ifs tittle tattles I know not what iwis all not worth a blue point much a do and litle helpe fat féeding and leane cattell Hei misero pingui macer est tibi taurus in aruo Thou kickest against the pricke and castest water into the sea and shewest thy selfe not a Cardinall but a caitife not a catholicke but a schismaticke not an obedient child A graue and discreet reasoning of a Pope but a bastardly and beggerly brat so much to canuasse and cancell my words to spurne at my celestiall and lawfull procéedings and to go about to repel and obliterate my good purpose and determination Hast thou forgotten nosce teipsum know thy selfe Hast thou