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A14210	The Romane conclaue VVherein, by way of history, exemplified vpon the liues of the Romane emperours, from Charles the Great, to Rodulph now reigning; the forcible entries, and vsurpations of the Iesuited statists, successiuely practised against the sacred maiestie of the said empire: and so by application, against the residue of the Christian kings, and free-states are liuely acted, and truely reported. By Io. Vrsinus ante-Iesuite.; Speculum Jesuiticum. English	Beringer, Joachim.; Gentillet, Innocent, ca. 1535-ca. 1595, attributed name.	1609 (1609)	STC 24526; ESTC S118919	126,713	245

Otho of Colonna a Roman patrician by the name of Martin the fift to be preferred to the place by the generall suffrage of all the nations there assembled Yea and to remoue all impediments from retardation of the peace he suffered Iohn Husse and Ierome of Prage men of exquisit learning and singular piety to be condemned and burned against an oath of safe-conducte publiquely allowed them But now let vs go by examination to learne what thankes this godly zealous honourable and Christian Emperour receiued at the hands of this Holy-seeming Sea for these their so infinite benefits Vpon which I will not stand to exemplifie for that euery weake braine can conceiue what are the blessings of peace what the fruites of a quieted conscience what the rewardes of vnity in religion But surely their retributions were such as would absolutely dishearten any wise man to inable such ingratefull Canonists by benefits Yet will wee take so much paine as to decipher them to our Reader No long time after Eugenius the fourth then Poping it in Venice the Emperour tooke occasion to go into Italie to receiue his Inauguration where by the way it happened that he countenanced somewhat aboue ordinary Philip Duke of Millan at that instant warring against the Venetians and Florentines They partly fearing and partly imagining that their wills were halfe obtayned if they might worke the Pope to their fashion aduentured and without opposall gained his Fatherhoods good will to deny the Emperor his lawfull request and more adioyned his forces to make good the passage of Aruo about Syenna against his Maiesties people This you must at any hand remember was the Popes requitall this their vsuall remunerations not vnfitly beseeming their double dealing consciences Yet departed his Maiesty not vncrowned but obserue I beseech you by what practises by what cunning sleights they proceeded in their state-House Extraordinary Intercession must be made Six months he must stay at Siena to his infinit expence who gained by that And at last must he leaue Rome doubt you not but to Eugenius his high content And againe this Neronian bloud-thirsting Bishop som short time after being deposed for going about to frustrate the decree of the Councel of Constance wherby it was inacted that euery seuenth yeare the Bishops should celebrate a Generall Councell and to ratifie That of Basil which Martin had summoned and himselfe authorized in the daies of Frederick the third he set all Austria on a miserable woful lamētable cōbustion by prouoking Lewes the sonne of Charles king of France then called the Daulphin to infest Germany with warre fire famine For this Prince at the pleasure of Eugenius endeuoring to make void the Councel of Basil with his Armeniachs and souldiers by cunning treason protestations possessed himselfe of all the plaine Country yea and of some Cities of Alsatia miserably wasting that goodly Prouince the most fertil mother of grain wine That done he fell to burning the villages the Mannors Mansions of citizens of orphanes and widowes and therein spared neither Gods Churches nor Monasteries Hauing put period to wast but not to cruelty he returned to Basil with 30. thousand Cumbatants where by the valiancy of three thousand Heluetians charging for their Country hee was finally slaine the third part of his lame maymed Army scant returning with life into France Such be the successe of all papal entertainment ❧ Frederick the third Hee raigned Anno 1440. about the eighteenth yeare of Henry the sixth ALbert succeeded Sigismund but hee departing this world within two yeares after his election the Imperiall diaceme diuolued vpon Frederick of Austria who being by nature a Prince of a clement milde peaceable disposition set diligent watch and warde ouer his thoughts his words and his actions not at all to offend these hereditarie disturbers of peace and perpetuall manaclers of Princes Yet could hee not fully auoid their crossings abate their pride nor escape their plots For as in a publique Parliament held at Mogunce he did what he could to corroborat the councell of Basil held in the yeare of our Lord 1441. which the Pope laboured tooth and naile to disanul as also to diminish the exactions which by Popish iniunctions were leuied vpon the German Churches which to effect by his letters hee desired the king of France either to assist in person or by some eminent persons of his Kingdome So the Pope to countermine against this lawfull battery of publique triall for these can no more abide it then Owles can light tampereth with the French neither to goe himselfe nor to suffer any other without his priuity to appeare as his Deputie Here behold one Popish tricke more for the present to frustrate the intended reformation of a noble vertuous Emperour And heereupon followed that wofull Alsatian de-population whereof wee tolde you but now There is an other tricke complotted to busie his head with-all viz. Diuersion His owne house is on fire how can hee then attend the quenching of his neighbours And albeit that hee outliued three successiue Bishops during their liues caried himself so modestly and benignly towards them that nothing was attempted by them against his Dignity yet hoped for greater contentments by the rising of Pius the second to the Papacie his auncient seruant and Minister Notwithstanding this his trusty friend being once seated without acquainting the Emperour made no scruple to accurse his kinsman Sigismund Archduke of Austria and to entangle Germanie with intestine diuisions As thus Sigismund after long controuersying and nothing preuailing being vnwilling that the people vnder his tuition should still stand exposed to the depraedations of the Romanists in a bickering of Horse-men chanced to take prisoner and imprisoned Nicholas Cusanus by the Pope sent into Tirol to ransack the Bishoprick of Brixia The Bishop censuring him at no lesse a crime then high treason committed against one of his creatures enioyneth him greeuous punishments from which his trustinesse could not be wooed to absolue him no not at the intercession of Caesar vntill Pluto himselfe came a messenger to release him from his papall obstinacie His owne Creatures report that neither the threats nor the intreaties of Princes or communalties could any whit terrifie him but in extreame and insatiable prowling for mony he was ready to accurse and prosecute with warre as many as any way offered to gainsay his intendments Theodorick Erbach Archbishop of Mogunce being dead Diether Erusburg was preferred to his place This man for that Annats and first fruites had beene abolished and condemned in the Councel of Basil refused to pay to Saint Peter for bestowing the Pall vpon him those twenty thousand sixe hundred and fifty duckets of the Rhene which his Holinesse by prescription adiudged to be due vnto him Pius was not a little moued at the refusall denieth him confirmation and bestowed the Incumbencie vpon Adolph of Nassau not for loue towards the

Emperor or euer after made vse pretending that the cause of his so and so doing took originall from these saucy and malepert speeches of the Popish ministers And thereupon causing the Legats to be safe conducted to their lodging at break of day hee commaunded them to be packing with especiall caution that they should not rome hether and thether vpon the liuings of the Bishops Abbots but that they should keepe the high way towards the Citie without declining therefrom either to the right hand or the left The especiall reason was that according vnto the accustomed dog-trick of the Romanists they should not disperse their conceiued poyson of discontent ouer all the Churches and Parishes of the Kingdome neither strip the Altars nor carie away the vtensils of Gods house nor fliece the crosses And because that no man should imagine that this intimation was inflicted aboue desert nor any commotion should thereupon arise Caesar by the councell of the wise men of his Kingdome sendeth his letters through the whole Empire shewing the tenour of the cause And thereunto adioyneth his most passionate complaints vpon the diminution of the honor of the Empire with a declaration That by the election of the Princes vnder God onely the Empire had deuolued to him and his successours Against which if any man presumed to affirme that the Emperour ought to hold of the Pope in fee he was to suffer punishment as a person guilty of an vntruth one that maintained an opinion contrarie to the diuine institution the doctrine of Saint Peter The Legats ariue at Rome where in most calumnious manner aggrauating their wrongs and iniuries in the presence of Hadrian by adding flame to fire they so incense his holinesse already transported with furie and reuenge but to thinke that Frederick had done what his auncestors durst not haue dreamed of for of which of the Romane Emperours is it read of that euer interdicted the Romanists Germanie That forthwith hee addresseth his minitory letters vnto Caesar wherein most bitterly and papally hee expostulateth with his Maiestie of these and all fore-passed greeuances The transcript whereof because they are worth the reading and animaduersion for the benefit of the Reader I will here insert Adrian Bishop seruant vnto the seruants of God sendeth greeting and apostolicall benediction vnto Frederick Emperour of Romanes As the Diuine Law assureth long life vnto those that render due obedience vnto their parents So vnto him that disobeyeth his father or mother it inflicteth the sentence of death and damnation The voice of veritie doth teach vs that euery soule that exalteth it selfe shall be humbled Whereupon beloued sonne in the Lord according vnto your wisedome we are not a little amazed that you shew not that measure of reuerence towards Saint Peter and the Romane Church as you are bound to doe In your letters dated to our Holinesse you insert your stile before Ours Wherein you incurre the scandall of presumption I will not say of Arrogancie As concerning your fealtie auowed and sworne to Saint Peter and vs how is it kept when you require Homage exact fealty and hold the holy hands of those betweene yours who are duly dedicated to God being his most glorious children viz. the Bishops shewing your selfe manifestly rebellious vnto vs in denying our Cardinals directed vnto you from our side not onelie entrance into the Churches but also into the Cities of your Kingdome Repent repent therefore wee aduise you least that in seeking to deserue a Crowne and coronation at our hands in affecting things vngranted you lose not what is alreadie granted We tender your noblenesse What inference of humility or apostolicall lenitie appeareth I beseech you in these letters nay rather may not a good Christian without offence terme such a pride to be truly Luciferian that taketh so great a scorne to haue the papall stile placed behinde the Imperiall as if other Emperours in their letters to His Holinesse had not before times done the like See 97. dist c. victor 63. distinct c. tibi After the receite of these blunt and proud-papall mandats the Emperour according to his excellent sufficiencie in Christian sapience requiteth him and as the prouerb is driuing out one naile with another he payeth his holinesse home in this manner Frederick by the grace of God Emperour of Romanes alwaies Augustus vnto Adrian Bishop of the Catholique congregation Whatsoeuer Iesus began to doe and to teach in all things ought wee that to follow The Law of Iustice distributeth vnto euerie man his owne Wee derogate not from our parents as long as in this Kingdome we vouchsafe them due Honour from whom viz. our progenitours wee haue receaued the dignitie and Crowne of the Kingdome I pray you in the time of Cōstantine was Siluester known to haue anie interest in the Regalties By his Pietie the Church obtained libertie and peace and what euer iura regalia your Papacie can claime they accrewed vnto you by the bountie of Princes Turne ouer the Cronicles and if you please not to belieue what I write there shall you finde as much as we affirme What should then let vs that we should not exact homage and oathes of allegeance from them which are Gods by adoption yet hold of vs in regaltie sithence that He who was ours and your Master taking nothing from the King but distributing all his goods indifferentlie amongst all persons paying tribute to Caesar for himselfe and Peter and leauing the example behinde him for you to follow hath warranted the president by saying Learne you of me for I am meeke and humble of heart Wherefore let them either resigne their regalties viz. their temporalities or in the name of God if they shall iudge them profitable let them giue vnto God the things that are Gods and vnto Caesar what belongeth to Caesar The reason wherefore we interdicted your Cardinals the Churches and forbad them our Cities was because we finde them not Preachers but robbers not peace-makers but money masters not conuerters of the people but heapers of insatiable treasure Yet when we shall finde them such as the Church ordaineth them messengers of peace lights to their Countrie and impartiall assistants to the cause of the Humble then will we not deferre to relieue them with competent stipends and necessarie prouisions meane time you wrong humilitie the Princesse of vertues and mightilie scandalize your submissiuenesse by terrifying the consciences of secular persons with positions wholy impertinent to religion Let your fatherhood therefore take heede lest while you motion points of such nature whereof we make light account that you offend not those who would otherwise euen in hast open their eares as willingly vnto the words of your mouth as vnto a presage of a ioyfull accident These things we can not but aunswere sithence so detestable a beast of pride hath crept into S. Peters Chaire Fare you well alwaies and God at all times make you carefull for the peace of