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cause_n	duke_n	great_a	king_n	3,144	5	4.0015	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62185	The papacy of Paul the Fourth, or, The restitution of abby lands and impropriations an indispensable condition of reconciliation to the infallible see, &c.; Historia del Concilio tridentino. English. Selections	Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623.; E. A.	1673 (1673)	Wing S700; ESTC R12447	21,600	44

great importance But the Consistory being dismissed without a resolution the Pope knew that either he must yield or come to a War from which being not averse advice came fitly to him from his Nephew of what was concluded in France So that the discourses of Reformation and Councils were turned into parlies of Money Souldiers and Intelligences The Pope armed the Citizens and Inhabitants of Rome to the number of 5000. caused many of his Cities to be fortified and put garrisons into them and the French King sent him at his instance 3000 Gascons by Sea that he might subsist while the Royal Army was prepared In these negotiations the Pope imprisoned many Cardinals Barons and others upon suspition as also the Ambassadors of Philip King of England and the Emperors Post-master And to the Duke of Alva who sent to protest against him for maintaining in Rome the fugitives of the Kingdom of Naples for laying hands on and keeping in Prison publick persons without reason and for having opened the Kings Letters he sent back this answer That he was a free Prince and Superior to all others not bound to give any account but to demand it of any wha●soever that he might entertain any persons and open any letters which he thought to be written against the Church that if Carallasso Philip's Ambassador had done the office of an Ambassador nothing should have been done against him but having made Treaties moved Seditions plotted against the Prince to whom he was sent he had offended as a private man and as such he should be punished that no danger should make him be wanting to the Dignity of the Church and defence of that See referring all to God by whom he was made Shepherd of the Flock of Christ And the Pope still continuing to make provision the Duke of Alva sent another protestation against him that the King having endured so many injuries knowing that the intention of his Holiness was to dispossess him of the Kingdom of Naples and being assured that to this end he had made a League with his enemies therefore in regard his Holiness did desire War he did denounce it against him protesting that the Calamities thereof could not be imputed to him and laying the blame upon the Pope The Pope mak●ng shew to desire Peace but answering only in general terms to gain time the Duke began to make War the fourth of September and in the year 1556 possessed himself of all Campania holding it in the name of the next Pope and came so near to Rome that he put City in fear and made them strengthen and fortifie it But the greatness of the City and other respects and dangers counselled him not assailing Rome to undertake smaller enterprises It gave much matter of discourse that this year Charles the Emperor parted from Flanders and passed into Spain to betake himself to a private life in a solitary place so that they made a comparison between a Prince trained up from his infancy in the negotiations and affairs of the World who at the age of little more than fifty years resolved to quit the World and only to serve God changed from a mighty Prince to a mean religious person and one who had formerly abandoned the Episcopal Charge to retire into a Monastery and now being at the age of eighty years and made Pope did wholly addict himself to Pomp and Pride and endeavoured to set all Europe on fire with War In the beginning of the year 1557. the Duke of Guise passed into I●aly with his Army in favour of the Pope who to observe the promise of his Nephew made to the French King made a promotion of ten Cardinals which not being according to the meaning and the end agreed on neither for the number nor quality of the persons his excuse was that he was so nearly conjoyned with his Majesty that his dependents would be as serviceable to the King as the French-men themselves and that he could not then make a greater promotion seeing the number already arrived to 70. which would quickly be diminished by removing some Rebels which he meant of those that were already in the Castle and others against whom he had a design as well for matter of State as of Religion for he was not so intent on the War as to abandon the business of the Inquisition which he said was the principal Secret and Mystery of the Papacy He had information against Cardinal Morone that he held intelligence in Germany and imprisoned him in the Castle and the Bishop of Modena as confederate with him He deprived also Cardinal Pool of his Legation of England and cited him to appear in the Inquisition at Rome and created Cardinal William Peto Bishop of Salisbury and made him Legate in Pool's place And although the King and Queen testifying what service he had done to the Catholick Faith made earnest intercession for him yet the Pope would never remit one jot of his ●igour Cardinal Pool obe●ed laying aside the administration and ornaments of a Legate but parted not out of England alledging the Queens commandment that he should not go In England many were scandalized at it and allienated from the Pope and many in Rome thought it a calumny invented to revenge himself for the Truce between the two Kings treated by him without imparting it to him The Duke of Guise being come into Italy made VVar in P●●mont with purpose to continue it in Lombardy and so to divert the Arms taken up against the Pope but the Pope's ardent desire to assail the Kingdom of Naples did not permit him The French-men knew the difficulties and the Duke of Guise with four principal Commanders went to Rome by Post to make the Pope understand what the reasons of War did perswade In whose presence all being consulted on and the Pope's resolution not giving place to any other deliberation it was necessary to yield unto him Yet they did nothing but assault Civitella a place situated at the entry into the Provinces of Abruzzo where the Army had a repulse In summ the Pope's Arms as well his own as Auxiliary were not much favoured by God But in the midst of August the Army of the Duke of Alva approaching Rome and the Pope understanding the surprize and sack of Signea the slaughter of many and the danger in which Pagliano was he related all in Consistory with many tears adding that he did undauntedly expect Martyrdom the Cardinals marvelling that he should paint out the Cause to them who understood the truth as if it had been of Christ whereas it was profane and proceeded from ambition and that he should say it was the principal Sinew and mystery of the Papacy VVhen the Pope's affairs were in greatest straits the French King's Army had such a great overthrow near S. Quintin that he was forced to recall the Duke of Guise and his Forces letting the Pope know his inevitable necessity the Pope refused to let Guise return whereupon

concerneth the Communion of the Cup yet with condition that they should change nothing in the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church until the Decree of the future Diet. And they desiring nothing else were content to contribute readily against the Enemy The Bavarians also desired of their Duke liberty of Religion demanding a free preaching of the Gospel marriage of Priests the Communion in both kinds and to eat flesh every day protesting that otherwise they would not pay the heavy Subsidies and Contributions against the Turks The Duke seeing that Ferdinand had granted his people the Communion of the Cup did likwise grant them that Communion and leave to eat flesh if there were necessity on Fasting daies until the causes of Religion were composed by Publick Authority But the Pope having laid the foundations before rehearsed applying himself to Spiritual matters thought it necessary to gain Credit with the World which could not be done if it did not appear by deeds not by words only that the Court of Rome was reformed Therefore being wholly bent to this in the end of January 1556. he erected a Congregation to which he committed the discussion of all the doubts in matter of Simony which he Printed and sent Copies of them to all Princes and said he had published them that they might come to the knowledg of the Vniversities of general Studies and of every Learned man that all might have occasion to make known their opinions which he would not openly desire because it was not honourable for that See which is Mistress of all to go about and beg them He said that for himself he had no need of the instruction of any because he knew what Christ did command but that he had erected the Congregation that in a matter wherein all are interested it might not be said that he had proceeded of his own head He added that having purged himself and his Court it could not be said to him Physitian cure thy self And that he would make Princes know that there is greater Simony in their Courts which he would take away being Superior to Princes as well as Prelates Some told him that it was necessary to handle such a thing in a General Council which he heard with great indignation and said he had no need of a Council himself being above all And Cardinal Bellai saying that a Council was necessary not to add authority to the Pope but to find a means for Execution which cannot be uniform in all places he concluded that if a Council were necessa●y it should be held in Rome and that it was not needful to go else-where and that he never consented that the Council should be held in T 〈…〉 because it was in the midd'st of the Lutherans that the Council is to consist of Bishops only that other persons might be admitted for Counsel yet only Catholicks ☜ otherwise the Turks also ought to be admitted That it was a great vanity to send into the Mountains sixty Bishops of the least able and fourty Doctors of the most insufficient as was twice done already and to believe that by those the World could be better regulated than by the Vicar of Christ with the Colledg of all the Cardinals who are the Pillars of all Christendom Elected for the most Excellent of all Christian Nations and by the Counsel of the Prelates and Doctors which are in Rome who are the most Learned persons in the World and more in number than by any diligence can be brought to Trent But when news came to Rome of the grant of the Cup made by the Duke of Bavaria to his Subjects he entred into a great rage against him and he put this among other things for which he designed to make provision at once being full of hope that every thing would be easy unto him if the Court were reformed and was not troubled though he saw the number of abuses to encrease For a few daies after the Ambassador of Polonia coming expresly to congratulate his Holiness for his assumption to the Popedom made five demands in the name of the King and Kingdom viz. To Celebrate the Mass in the Polonian Tongue To use the Communion in both kinds The Marriage of Priests That the payment of Annates might be taken away And that they might call a National Council to reform the proper abuses of the Kingdom and to reconcile the variety of opinions He heard these demands with unspeakable impatience and set himself to detest them most bitterly speaking against them one after another with infinite vehemence And for conclusion he said that a General Council in Rome would cause the heresies and bad opinions of many to be known alluding to what was done in Germany Austria and Bavaria And being for these reasons almost resolute in himself or at least willing to seem so that it was necessary to call a Council he told all the Ambassadors that they should signifie to their Princes his purpose to make a Lateran Council like unto that which is so famous And he sent Nuncii to the Emperor and the French King to exhort them to Peace though in France he had a more secret negotiation He gave commission also to treat with them of the Council and said in the Consistory that it was necessary to Celebrate it quickly seeing that besides Bohemia Prussia and Germany which were much infected Polonia also was in danger That in France and Spain they were well affected in Religion but the Clergy were badly used That which he principally reprehended in France was the exaction of the Tenths which the King made the Clergy ordinarily pay But he was more incited against Spain For Paul the Third and J●lius having granted the Emperor Charles the halt and quarter Fruits for a Subsidy of the War of Germany and he having revoked the grant because he was not satisfied with the Recess of Ausburg yet they persevered in Spain and forced the Clergy to pay by Sequestrations and imprisonments He did not forbear to say that the Emperor was an Heretick that in the beginning he favoured the innovators of Germain to depress that holy See and to make himself Lord of Rome and of all Italy that he held Paul the Third in perpetual trouble and that he should not do the like to him He added that although he might remedy all these inconveniences by his own Authority yet not to lay so great a burden upon himself alone he would not do it without a Council that he had called it in Rome and named it the Lateran that he had given commission to signifie it to the Emperor and French King in courtesie but not to have their consent or Counsel because his will was they should obey That he was assured it would please neither of them because it is not for their purpose living as they do and that they will say many things against it to disturb it But he will call it whether they will or no and make known what