his own Fingers in the madness of his Distemper Arnoldus likewise who was accessary hereunto was assaulted in a Monastery butchered and his Carcass thrown into the Town-Ditch Chetwind Hist Collect. 1 part p. 21. XVI One Philibert Hamlin a Popish Priest in France was in the year 1557. Converted to the Protestant Religion and thereupon went to Geneva where he exercised the Art of Printing and published many Books After which he was made a Minister of the Reformed Religion and Preached with good success at the Town of Aleuart and other places At last he with his Host a Priest whom he had Instructed in the Protestant Profession were apprehended and cast into Prison at Burdeaux and whilst they lay there in came a Priest with all his Accoutrements to say Mass But Philibert inflamed with Zeal against such ridiculous Fopperies went and pluckt the Garments from his back and overthrew the Chalice and Candlesticks saying Is it not enough for you to blaspheme God in the Churches but you must also pollute the Prison with your Idolatry The Jaylor seeing this fell upon him and beat him with his Staff and also removed him into a Dungeon loading him with Irons which made his Leggs to swell where he lay eight daies The Priest his Host terrified with the Prison and fear of Death renounced his Profession and was set at Liberty whereupon Philibert said to him O unhappy and more than miserable man is it possible that you should be so foolish as for to save your life a few daies you should so start away from and deny the Truth know you therefore that although you have hereby avoided the Corporal Fire yet your life shall be never the longer for you shall die before me and yet shall not have the honour to die for the Cause of God and you shall be an Example to all Apostates Having ended his Speech and the Priest going out of Prison he was presently slain by two Gentlemen who formerly had a quarrel against him Philibert hearing of it protested seriously That he knew â—f no such thing before but spoke as it pleased God to guide 〈◊〉 Tongue Philibert being condemned and carryed to 〈…〉 they endeavoured to drown his voice by sounding of Trumpets and so in the midst of the Flames praying and exhorting the People to Constancy in the Truth he rendred up his Soul unto God Clarks Martyrol p. 228. XVII When by the counsel and persuasion of Philip the Fair King of France Pope Clement the Fifth had condemned the whole Order of the Knights Templars and in divers places had put many of them to death there was a Neopolitan Knight brought to suffer in like manner who espying the Pope and the K. of France looking out at a window he with a loud voice spake to them as followeth Clement Thou cruel Tyrant seeing there is none now left among Mortals unto whom I may make my Appeal as to that grievous Death whereunto thou hast most unjustly condemned me I do therefore appeal unto the Just Judge Christ our Redeemer unto whose Tribunal I cite thee together with King Philip that you both may make your Appearance there within a year and a day where I will then open and defend my cause Pope Clement died within the time and King Philip soon after him in 1214. Lipsius Mon. l. 2. XVIII A Master of the Tâ—â—tonick Order whose name saith our Author I forbear to mention proposed a Match between a young Merchant and a Woman of a doubtful Fame in respect of her Chastity the young Man refused the overture and the rather because he that persuaded the Marriage was supposed to be no hater of the Woman the Master resented this refusal so ill that he determined the life of the refuser should pay for it he therefore contrived that the young Man should be accused of Theft for which being condemned he commanded he should be hanged prayers and tears were of no avail and therefore the innocent had recourse to the safest Sanctuary of innocency and as he was led to Execution said with a loud voice I suffer unjustly and therefore appeal to the supream Lord of Life and Death to whom he that hath so unjustly condemned me shall render an account thirteen days after this very day The Master scoffed at this but upon that same thirteenth day being taken with a sudden sickness he cryed out Miserable Man that I am behold I must dye and this day must I appear before the All-seeing Judge and so died presently after Wanly Hist Man XIX A poor Labourer at Calice who had been an hearer of Mr. Adam Damlip a famous Protestant Preacher at Calice when it was in the hands of the English said among some Company That he would never believe the Priest could make the Lords Body at his pleasure whereupon he was accused and condemned by one Harvey a Commissary there who also with opprobrious and abusive words railed upon him calling him Heretick and saying He should die a vile death the poor Man answered That he was no Heretick but one that held the True Faith of Christ and whereas thou sayest said he that I shall die a vile death thou thy self shalt die a vile death and that shortly The poor Man was burnt and Harvey within half an year after was hanged drawn and quartered for Treason Clarks Martyr p. 427. XX. In Sweden Johannes Turso gave Sentence upon a certain Man that he should lose his head who when all other defence was denied him fell down on his knees and with great earnestness spake as followeth Behold I die unjustly and I cite thee unjust Judge to Gods Tribunal there to answer for my head within this hour These were looked upon as frivolous words but scarce was the Man beheaded by the Executioner when the Judge himself fell down dead from his Horse Delrio Disquisit l. 4. Otho the first Emperor of Rome being freely reprehended by his Son William who was then Bishop of Mentz for his Marriage with Adelaida the Emperor was so offended that he sent his Son to Prison whereupon the Bishop cited his Father Otho to the Tribunal of Christ And said he upon Whitsunday both of us shall appear before the Lord Christ where by Divine Judgment it shall appear who hath transgressed the limits of his duty In pursuance of this appeal the Emperor Otho died upon Whitsunday suddenly in Saxony his Son the Bishop deceasing some short time before Drevel Op. XXI Rodulphus Duke of Ausiria being grievously offended with a certain Knight caused him to be apprehended and being bound hand and foot and thrust into a Sack to be thrown into the River the Knight being in the Sack and it as yet not sown up espying the Duke looking out at a Window where he stood to behold that spectacle cryed out to him with a loud voice Duke Rodulph I summon thee to appear at the dreadful Tribunal of Almighty God within the compass of one year there to shew cause
that his dream had nothing in it he returns both to his bed and sleep when the same Person appears to him the second time all bloody and requested him earnestly That seeing he had neglected him as to the preservation of his life yet at least â—e would not be wanting to him in the revenge of his death declaring That he was murdered by his Host and that at this very time he was carried out in a Cart toward the Gate of the City covered over with Dung The Man overcome with these intreaties of his Friend immediately runs out to the Gate where he finds the Cart he had seen in his dream which he seizes and searching it finds there the body of his Friend and drags the Inn-keeper to his deserved punishment Dr. More Immortal Soul XII Mr. Morison an English Gentleman in his Travels gives this Relation whil'st I lived at Prague and had sate up very late one night drinking at a Feast early in the morning the Sun-beams glancing on my Face as I lay in my Bed I dreamed that a shadow passing by me told me That my Father was dead at which awaking all in a sweat and affected with this dream I arose and wrote the day and hour and all circumstances thereof in a paper book which book with many other things I put into a barrel and sent it from Prague to Stode thence to be conveyed into England And now being at Newemburgh a Merchant of a Noble Family well acquainted with me and my Relations arrived there who told me that my Father dyed some months past I design not to write any lies but that which I write is as true as strange when I returned into England some four years after I would not open the Barrel I sent from Prague nor look into the paper book in which I had written this dream till I had called my Sisters and some other Friends to be witnesses where my self and they were astonished to see my written dream answer the very day of my Fathers death Morisons Travels p. 1. XIII The night before Heury the Second King of France was slain Queen Margret his Wife dreamed That she saw her Husbands Eye put out there were Justs and Turnaments at that time into which the Queen besought her Husband nor to enter because of her dream but he was resolved and there did great things when all was almost now done he would needs run a tilt with a Knight who refused him his name was Montgomery but the King was bent upon it whereupon they broke their Launces to Shivers in the encounter and a splinter of one of them struck the King so full into the Eye that he thereby received his deadly wound It is observed of this King That one Ann du Bourg a Noble Councellor and a man of singular understanding and knowledge making a Speech before him a little before his Death in defence of the Protestant Religion and against persecuting the Professors thereof he therein rendred thanks to Almighty God for moving the King's heart to be present at the decision of so weighty a Cause as that of Religion was and humbly entreated him to consider thereof it being the Cause of Christ himself which of good Right ought to be maintained by Princes c. But the King instead of hearkning to his good Advice was so far incensed against him that he caused him to be apprehended by the Count of Montgomery Constable of France and to be carryed to Prison protesting to him in these words These Eyes of mine shall see thee burnt and presently after he sent a Commission to the Judges to make his Process In the mean time great Feasts were preparing in the Court for Joy of the Marriages that should be of the King's Daughter and Sister The day whereof being come the King imployed all the Morning in examining the President and other Councellors of the Parliament against Du Bourg and other of his Companions who were charged with the same Doctrins intending to glut his Eyes in seeing his Execution but that very Afternoon he received that fatal blow in his Right Eye which so pierced his head that his brains were perished which wound dispising all means of cure killed him within eleven daies whereby his hope of seeing Du Bourg burned was frustrated Clarks Martyr P. 231. XIV There was one who dreamed that he was bitten to death by a Lion of Marble that was set at the entrance of the Temple and being the next morning to go to that Temple and beholding the Marble Statue of the Lion he jeastingly told his dream to those that went with him and putting his hand into the Lions mouth he said laughing Bite now my valiant Enemy and if thou canst kill me He had scarce spoke the words when he was stung to death with a Scorpion that there lay hid and thereby unexpectedly found the Truth of his dream Crescentius the Popes Legate at the Council of Trent 1552 was busie writing Letters to the Pope till it was late in the night whence arising to refresh himself he saw a black Dog of a vast bigness flaming Eyes and Ears which hung down almost to the ground enter the room which came directly toward him and laid himself down under the Table frighted at the sight he called his Servants in the Antichamber and commanded them to look for the Dog but they could find none The Cardinal hereupon fell Melancholy and afterward sick dying in a short time at Verona crying out on his death-bed Drive away the Dog that leaps upon the Bed Wanly Hist Man XV. In the year 1154. Frederick Aenobardus being Emperour of Germany Henry Archbishop of Mentz a pious and peaceable man but not able to endure the dissolute Manners of the Clergy under him determined to subject them to sharp censure but while he thought of this he himself was by them before-hand accused to Pope Eugenius the Fourth The Archbishop sent Arnoldus his Chamberlain to Rome to make proof of his Innocency but the Traitor deserted his Lord and instead of defending him traduced him there himself The Pope sent two Cardinals as his Legates to Mentz to determine the cause who being bribed by the Canons and Arnoldus deprived Henry of his Bishoprick with great scorn and ignominy and substituted Arnoldus in his stead Henry bore all patiently without appealing to the Pope which he knew would be to no purpose but openly declared That from their unjust Judgment he made Appeal to Christ the Just Judge there said he will I put in my Answer and thither I cite you The Cardinals jeastingly replyed When thou art gone before we will follow thee About a year and an half after the Archbishop Henry died upon the hearing of his death both the Cardinals said Lo he is gone before and we shall follow after But their Jeast proved in earnest for both of them died in one and the same day one in an House of Office and the other gnawing off
that he entred like a Fox reigned like a Lyon and dyed like a Dog he sent an Ambassage to Philip the fair King of France to command him to take upon him an expedition against the Saracens in the Holy Land upon pain of forfeiting his Kingdom into his hands and having his Sword by his side he had the Impudence to say That he alone and none else was Emperour and Lord of all the world and to make this good he bestowed the Empire of Germany and the Crown of France upon Duke Albert though none of his to give and not content herewith he was so insolent as to charge Philip the Fair to acknowledge him to be his Subject in all Causes as well Temporal as Spiritual requiring him likewise to levy a Subsidy upon the Clergy for his Holinesses use and denying his Authority in bestowing Church livings which were vacant as being a Prerogative challenged by the Holy See and in the conclusion of this Bull or Decree were these words Aliud credentes fatuos reputamus We count him a fool who is of another mind whereunto the King returned this Answer Philippus Dei Gratia c. Philip by the Grace of God King of France to Boniface calling himself Pope little or no health be it known to the exceeding great Foolishness that we in Temporal Affairs are subject to none and that the bestowing of Benefices belongs to us as our Royal Right and â—f there be any that think otherwise we judge them to be erroneous and doting Fools an answer will beseeming a Prince who in pursuance thereof immediately assembled a National Council of all the Barons and Prelates within his Dominions at Paris wherein Pope Boniface was Condemned as an Heretick a Simonist a Manslayer and it was generally concluded That the King should shew no obedience to him nor take the least notice of whatever he should impose for the future whereupon the King to pull down his Pride and Arrogance dispatched two hundred Soldiers privately into the Kingdom of Naples whither the Pope was fled for fear of divers Gentlemen who were resolved to be revenged on him for causing their Houses and Castles to be pluckt down who by a stratagem surprised him and carried him to Rome where he dyed miserably some Authors affirming that the Extremity of his Torment brought him into such a terrible Frenzy that he gnawed off his own hands for pain and that at the hour of his death there were horrible Thunders Lightnings and Tempests about the place where he died Beards Theatre VIII Adrian the Fourth was an English-man whose name was Nicholas Brakespear before he was Pope He would not suffer the Consuls of Rome to have any power and condemned Arnold of Brixia for an Heretick in upholding their Rights He quarrelled with the Emperour Frederick for not holding Hostler like his Stirrup and afterward excommunicated him for claiming his Rights and writing his name before the Popes He conspired with his Cardinals to ruine the Emperour and had sent a counterfeit Villain to stab him and an Arabian to poison him but while this proud Prelate designed the murdering of others he lost his own Life by a very despicable and inconsiderable creature for he was choakt with a Fly which got into his Throat in drinking a glass of Wine which verified what he was often wont to repeat That there is no kind of life upon Earth more wretched than to be a Pope Symson Hist church Emp Germany 3 days at the Popes Gate pa. 83. An Oivl in the Popes Council pa. 39 Scimus Alexandrum per secula commemorandum As long as there is Goose or Gander We must remember Alexander This Pope plagued the World about one and twenty years and was then suddenly hurried out of it in the midst of his wretched and ambitious Contrivances Symson Hist. Church X. Pope John the Twenty Third called a Council at Rome against the Protestants in Bohemia when the Council was set the Mass of the Holy Ghost sung and the Pope placed in his Chair there came flying in among them an ugly Owl with an ill-favoured hooting and set her self upon a cross Beam just over against the Pope casting her staring Eyes upon him whereupon the whole company began to marvel and whispering each to other said Behold the Spirit is come in the likeness of an Owl The Pope himself blushed at the matter and began to sweat fret and fume and being in great distraction as looking upon it to be ominous he dissolved the Council for that time yet afterward calling another Session when they were met in came the Owl as before still looking stedfastly upon the Pope whereupon he was more ashamed saying That he could no longer abide the sight of her and commanded her to be driven away but with all the shouts and hollowings they could make she would not be forced from her place till with Clubs and Sticks thrown at her she fell down dead among them all After this a Council was by his Consent Assembled at Constance 1414. in which this Pope for divers Intolerable Villanies was deposed and afterward died miserably Acts and Monum XI Pope Julius the Second was more addicted to War than Writing or Teaching his Flock He excommunicated Lewis the French King but he did not value it in the least for he Coined Money with this Inscription Perdam Babylonem I will destroy Babylon He is said to have thrown St. Peter's Keys into the River Tyber of whom this Epigram was written Cum contra Gallos Bellum Papa Julius esset Gesturus sicut fama vetusta docet c. When Julius Pope against the French Determined to make War As fame reports he gathered up Great Troops of Men from far And to the Bridge of Tyber then Marching as he were * or mad wood His Holy Keys he took and cast Them down into the Flood And afterward into his hand He took his naked Sword And shaking it broke forth into This fierce and warlike word This Sword of Paul quoth he shall now Defend us from our Foe Since that this Key of Peter doth Nothing avail thereto This Pope breaking his Oath in not celebrating a Council the Cardinals Assemble a Council at Pisa to depose him but he easily avoided that by a Counter Council at Lateran He dispensed with our King Henry the Eighth to Marry his Brother Arthur's Wife He horribly abused two Ingenious Youths who were sent by the Queen of France to be bred in Italy of which one wrote To Rome a German came of fair aspect But he return'd a Woman in effect And this was written of the Pope himself Genoa cui Patrem genetricem Graecia c. He that from Greece and Genua had his blood Aud on the waves his Birth can be prove good The Genoese Cheats the Greeks men Lyars call The Sea Perfidious Julius hath these all He Sainted one Mother Francis a Roman Matron for preserving her Chastity by melted Lard c. In his