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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14601	A looking-glasse for papists to see their owne deformities in matters of faith, and religion: and for formall protestants; to make them more carefull of the true profession of Iesus Christ: lest at any time they fall away from the sinceritie of the Gospell of Christ. With a briefe history of the Popes liues, from the first three hundred yeeres after Christ, vntill Paul the fift.	R. W., minister in Norfolk.; Woods, Richard, minister of Frettenham, attributed name.; Wrathall, Richard, attributed name.; Burges, John, 1561?-1635.	1621 (1621)	STC 24912; ESTC S119311	60,513	116

exceeded in crueltie before hee was Pope hee had written with singular diligence two bookes of the Acts of the Counsell of Basill but being Pope he sought to represse them labouring not to lessen the Papall tyranny but to increase it in what he could Stella He made warres with Borge Duke of Mutine because he fauoured Sigismund Malatest with many other great cruelties For his profit he deposed many Bishops He was sumptuous in building hee made a Sepulchre of Marble for his fathers and mothers bones See Plattina Amongst many things left in writing this was one With great reason saith he was Marriage taken from Priests yet there is a farre greater reason wherefore it ought to haue beene yeelded them againe Also in his second booke of Counsells he saith It may be that it were not the worse if a many Priests were married for many being married Priests should be saued which in their barren singlenesse are damned Himselfe abolished the Monasteries of S. Brigit and S. Clare commanding them out that they might burne no more and vnder the habite of Religion they should not hide whoredome Caelius secundus Hee was surprized of a slowe feauer whereof hee died at Ancon 1464. Plattina Sabellicus Paul the second sate seauen yeeres he was of a proude spirit ambitious and couetous Hee exceeded all his ancestors in sumptuous attire and all kinde of precious attire Plattina O noble Successour of Peter Hee was an enemy to learning hee put away many learned men as forreiners and strangers with their bookes giuen to the spoyle But diuers with Plattina himselfe desiring the matter might be referred vnto the Iudges the Pope in great anger answered Do you not know that all Iudgement is placed in our breast Plattina wrote a letter to the Pope desiring that if without cause he would spoyle them of their iust purchase yet it would please him they might haue leaue to complaine of their wrong and vniust ignominy For being banished of you wee must passe vnto Kings and Princes and we will intreate them that you appoint a Counsell wherein you may be constrained to giue a reason of your doing Paulus hauing read the letter he presently chargeth me of Libells spreading out against him And though I freed my selfe of that charge because I had set my name thereto yet I was bound with grieuous fetters and put into a high Tower in the middest of winter exposed to all windes foure months At the length at the importunate suite of a Cardinall I was set at libertie with admonition that I should not depart the Citie affirming that if I went among the Indies Paul would fetch me thence He was sodainely put in feare by a report that youths hauing Calimacho their Captaine had conspired against him whereby he feared to be surprized at home and abroad whereupon hee put many to torture with Captaine Calimacho whereof many died in the torture Hee was a great eater of Melons he eate the same day that he died in the night two very great Melons he died of an Apoplexie the tenth of the Kalends of August 1471. being alone in his Chamber no man seeing him when that day being very merry hee had a Consistory He went about to establish Priests marriages but hee was preuented by death It was said when hee came abroad he was wont to paint his face with all kinde of precious stones about him Aaron-like desirous to be seene and wondered at Hee was a great drinker but of small wines He so hated the study of humanitie as he called the students thereof by one name Heretickes Hereupon he perswaded the Romans they should no longer bring vp their children in learning it was enough if they learned to reade and write Plattin Others say the Diuell brake his necke as he was committing Sodomatrie Sixtus the fourth sate thirteen yeeres he was in great danger of his life at his Coronation by reason of a mutiny whilest they carried him in his Litter to the Church of Lateran hee was in danger of his life being assailed with stones so as he was forsaken almost of all that accompanied his Litter Hee made many warres against Ferdinand King of Pouill Hee builded in Rome Stewes for both kindes Cornelius Agrippa cap. 64. he graunted to Cardinalls the vse of Sodomatry for three hot moneths Sextus being sicke of a feuer vnderstanding that a peace was made betwixt the Venetians and other Potentates sodainely yeelded the spirit Naucler The rents of the Curtizans amounted to the value of twenty thousand ducats yeerely Onuphrius Agrippa de vanit Scient Wisellus de Indulgentijs Witnesses Naucler 1484. Innocens the eight sate eight yeeres hee was once a poore childe he was nourished amongest the seruants of Ferdinand king of Sicilie afterward he came to Rome he remained long time with Philip Cardinall of Bolongne After hee was made Bishop of Sauonne at the length he was made Cardinall and Pope He was of a great stature but farre from learning Almost from the beginning of his Popedome hee conspired against Ferdinand that brought him vp with the Princes of the Kingdome and warred against him c. but being wearied with warres he gaue himselfe to all pleasures He aduanced his bastards as Francis and inriched his daughter Theodorin which he married to a rich man of Genoa He begat eight sons and as many daughters Marcellus poeta No maruell though Rome calles him Father See his Epitaph following Why seekest thou witnes to proue Cibo a man Looke on his brats faire gages deny 't and you can Eight bastard sonnes he begat as many daughters Worthily then may Rome count this man Father saith Marcellus Alluding to the triall of the Sexe ordayned after the deceit of Pope Ioane Vncleannesse Auarice Sloath Gluttony Are heere octaue intomb'd where thou dost lye Alexander the sixt called Borgia before a Cardinall seeking to mount higher being a Negromancer hee vsed the helpe of the Diuell who promised him vpon agreement by oath and writing so as hee would in all things thew himselfe a faithfull protectour of Sathan Afterward the Diuell came vnto him hauing promised he should not appeare in any hideous or fearfull forme honourably apparrelled who after certaine talke had betwixt them assured the Cardinall he should be Pope Borgia being very ioyous hee inquired how long hee should reigne The Diuell gaue him an ambiguous answer viz. that hee should reigne the space of eleauen and eight The Cardinall foolishly promised himselfe nineteene yeeres but Sathan meant eleuen yeeres and eight moneths Now being chosen Pope hee named himselfe Alexander the sixt he made his bastard sonne called Valentine being a Cardinall a Duke and surnamed him Caesar Borgia he shed much bloud saith Valerius He gathered siluer as much as hee could to satisfie his lust He solde offices for 750. ducats apeece hee aduanced his bastards as his predecessors had done hee made the youngest of his sonnes a Prince of Sicilie his second sonne called Caesar Valentine hee