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A07370	The anatomie of Pope Ioane Wherein her life, manners and death is liuely layed abroad and opened, and the forged cauils and allegations that our aduersaries vse further, thoroughly vnripped and confuted. Necessarie for all those that are not fully acquainted with the storie, and not vnfruitfull to all them that loue and embrace the true religion of Christ, and abhorre the sortish illusions of Romish antichrist. Written by I.M.	Mayo, John, fl. 1607-1629.	1624 (1624)	STC 17754; ESTC S114229	9,367	22

obstinately to defend it For now euery one doth sée that you had leifer be filthie still then leaue off your filthinesse and had rather because you loue your vices Excusare quàm excutere Excuse them then forsake them and as many as in spi●●● and truth do loue the Lord do mou●●e for griefe to see men carried so heau● 〈◊〉 with such godlesse and retchlesse ima●●●ations CHAP. IIII. How they haue left cut Pope Ioanes name out of their Calendar and how they haue hired Onuphrius Pamuinius of set purpose to face out the matter SOme of our Aduersaries take this Enthimeme for an insallible argument An Enthimeme of our aduersaries to denie Pope Ioane Dame Ioane is not registred in the Calendar among the Popes Ergo it is but a vaine fable that euer Dame Ioane was Pope in Rome The consequent is very simple and not to be granted because it is well knowne that the Bishops names as well in Rome as in other places haue vpon sundrie occasions bene oftentimes quite stricken out of the Calendar But Dame Ioanes name they say is not in their Calendar It may be so and wherefore I pray Martious Polonus one of their owne sworne brothers doth tell vs. Iohanna saith he non ponitur in Catalogo Pontificum tam propter muliebrem sexum quàm propter deformitatem facti Pope Ioane is not reckoned in the Calendar of holy Popes as well for that she was a woman as also for very shame of the matter The like doth Sabellicus set downe Nullus defunctae honor habitus fama tenet ob tam foeda rei memoriam There was no honour bestowed at her buriall the report is for the remembrance of her filthie act By this we sée that the name of Pope Ioane was not put into the Calendar of the Popes partly because she was a woman and especially because she was a woman of such a filthie life and vicious behauiour Therefore this reason of our aduersaries is a blind coniecture and of no force But say they In Scholijs in Platinam Onuphrius Pamuinius vpon Platina hath truly and learnedly written hereof and he that list to reade that discourse of his shall easily beléeue the whole matter to be fabulous Truth it is that such a one indéed hath of late written hereof and beaten his braines not a litle 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 wel willers 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 and so ridiculons that it will grieue a good Christian in in his heart to reade and sée it This is the craft policie of the Pope to hire and procure men to smooth and sooth his matters and to face and grace out his impieties with many forged lies and false suppositions thinking by that meanes to dazel mens eyes and to make them beléeue they be true godly and apostolicall Most impudent and notorious railers and lyers This haue many popish Pages of late done and especially Amphilochius Onuphrius Surius and Hieronimus Bolsecus one that hath vsed most shamlesse rayling most vile spitefull and horrible lies and cauils with an immoderate and vnciuill bitternesse procéeding from the vnsauory and vnquiet humour of his heart against the godly and reuerend ministers of the Gospell Caluin Beza with others moe God of his mercie grant that they may repent 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 man sinneth with more danger then he that standeth in defence of sinne CHAP. V. What yeare of the Lord Pope Ioane liued in Rome How long she was Pope and betweene what Pops 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 Macedonis and commanded him to stand still not to stirre a foote nor to worke any displeasure either to himselfe or to his army Euen by like authoritie and with as good discretion the Pope his hirelings 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 Countries Regions that perfectly know 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 and 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 synagognes What the cause was that they haue left Pope Ioane out of their Calendar For although they haue left the name of Pope Ioane out of the Calendar of the Bishops of Rome only for shame lest it should appeare in records that a woman and such a woman had bene bishop of Rome or that the bishop of Rome had bene with child and although they neuer ceasse 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 men would haue written it nor the world would so vniuersally haue beléeued these things of the Pope more then of any other had it not bene true credible and veritie For where I pray began the historie of her first In Rome From what place was it first published abroad into the world Frō Rome What he they that haue written declared it The trustie friends of Rome yes the great authenticall Doctors commissioners of the Pope haue described auouched it some liuing foure hundred yeares agoe some fiue hundred who haue euer bin counted famous fathers in Rome and whorthy 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 4. and Benedict the third Séeing then that our aduersaries owne friends Proctors haue written and related it and so plainly and expresly shewed it I maruell 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