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A16136 The true maner of electing of popes written by a French gentleman ... ; faithfully translated according to the French copie ; with a list of all the cardinalls therein assisting and others.; Traicte sommaire de l'election des papes. English. 1605 Bignon, Jérôme, 1589-1656. 1605 (1605) STC 3057.7; ESTC S200 11,510 31

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THE TRVE MANER of Electing of Popes Written by a French Gentleman resident in Rome at this last Election Faithfully translated according to the French Copie With a List of all the Cardinalls therein assisting and others AT LONDON Printed by Val. S. for Nathaniell Butter 1605. To my Lord the Duke of Vandosme MY most honourable Lord the late departure of our L. P. Clement the 8. hath administred vnto me a subiect and opportunity during the vacancie to search out more particularly all points about the election of Popes and the formes of proceeding therein as well ancient as moderne iudgeing it a very inconuenient matter that we should be so addicted to the investigation of the least strange antiquities as some doe employing their whole studie herein and to be ignorant of that which occurreth in our owne times and in other things which touch and more neerely concerne vs. I made therefore a little memoratiue with intent onely that it should haue been for mine owne particular vse that vpon any default of my memory heereafter I might haue had recourse to the same But my dutie for the honour you vouchsafe me in being inquisitiue after my studies hauing a care of the same obliging me to giue you aduise herein you did not only desire to see it as you haue alwaies an incredible affection to vnderstand and be acquainted with al honest and commendable maters with a spirit and courage which surmounteth your yeares but further hauing seen the same you thought it expedient that it should bee published and imprinted It being not altogether impertinent to my relations of Rome which before I presented to you reduced as they saiy within the length of a little foote according to the proportion of my age of fourteene yeares It shall bee therefore you my good Lord to whome they that reade this Treatise and take any contentment therein must giue thanks euen as on the contrary they that out of a prowd humor disdaine and contemne whatsoeuer is not done by themselues shall haue somthing to say against you and not against me that doth but onely obey and obserue your will and pleasure as I ought to doe hauing no other reference heerein but to demonstrate by all meanes possible that I am My Lord Your thrice humble and most obedient seruant Hierome Bignon A briefe Treatise touching the Election of the Pope CHAP. I. Divers maners wherein heretofore they have proceeded to the Election of the Popes THe maner of creating and choosing the Popes at Rome hath bin divers according to the diversitie of times Some will needes affirme that at the beginning he that was present Pope designed and ordained his successour and that Saint Peter after this maner established Saint Clement to governe and rule the Church after him But that so resting without an other example and not being followed afterwards one can make no rule nor order of it the same hauing taken no effect because Saint Clement succeeded not Saint Peter but Linus and after him Cletus and Saint Clement was but the third after Saint Peter We likewise find it written that Linus and Cletus were also chosen by Saint Peter not for successors nor to be intentiue on prayer and preaching neither to haue pontificall iurisdiction but onelie for ayde and assistaunce in externall and temporall matters And that Saint Clement woulde not embrace this establishment so much in modestie as by diuine inspiration for feare lest the example of such a nomination should bee drawne to a custome in succeeding times and that therby the power and authoritie of the Church might bee diminished in choosing or instituting of a Pastor As also by the Canon of the Apostles 76. And by the Counsell of Antioch Chap. 23. it is not lawfull for a Bishop being at the point of death to choose and appoint in his place a successour By which it may be gathered that this custome was vsurped by some Bishops of whome there are diuers examples Certaine it is that after Saint Clement all the Popes were made and created by the voyce and suffragation of the Clergie and Christian people of the Cittie of Rome and by the Bishoppes of other Prouinces that then were there The which was obserued till the schisme that fell out betweene Damasus and Vrsicinus about the yeare of our Lord 369. For Damasus being then chosen Pope by one part of the people and Clergie and Vrsicinus by another and both of them supported by their fauorites they both were desirous to hold and maintaine this dignitie which caused great factions and sedition and went so farre that they came to hand-blowes So that one day there was an hundred seauen and thirtie dead bodies left in a Church for which cause the Emperour afterward interposed his authoritie in case of any such scisme hereafter ordaining him whom he would haue to be Pope And in this sort was Damascene established by the authoritie of the Emperour Vaelentinian And not long after there occurred the like diuision betweene Eulalius and Bonifacius and great sedition was raised within the Cittie of Rome vppon this occasion and Symmachus the Gouernour not being able to appease or set downe anie order for the same in the ende by the meere authoritie and power Imperiall of the Emperour Honorius Boniface was made Pope This dignitie hauing bene before as it were sequestred for the time by the Emperour and committed to the Bishop of Spoleti that then was during the feast of Easter And so there grew then diuision betweene Symachus and Laurentius the which king Theodorick making knowne in an assemblie helde at Rauenna hee confirmed Symachus And afterwardes the cause of scisme ceasing to preuent the tumult and disorder that might grow thervpon the Emperour was alwaies wont in such elections to bee present And it came to this point that an election of the Pope made by the people and Cleargie was not auayleable except it were ratified and confirmed by the Emperour in that hee elected durst not proceede to his consecration without the Princes will and consent vnto whom for the right and prerogatiue of confirmation a certaine summe of money was giuen This maner of proceeding continued while the daies of the Emperour Constantine the 3 who beeing mooued by the good and holie life of Pope Benedict 2. which was in the yeare 686. he sent vnto him a constitution by which it was ordained decreed that whosoeuer afterwards shold be chosen by the cleargie and people of Rome he was incontinently to bee reputed for the true Vicar of Iesus Christ without attending therein the authoritie of the Emperour of Constantinople or of the Exacque of Italie resident in Ravenna Afterwards in the yeare 773. Pope Hadrian the first in the counsell of Lateran wherin there was 153. Bishops assembled in the Church of Saint Sauiour in Rome with their aduise and consent gaue the power of electing and choosing pope to Charlemaine King of France who was afterwards made Emperour for driuing